2024 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 28

For today’s prompt, write a celebration poem. In the States, many celebrate Thanksgiving today, but there are any number of other celebrations people can have, including weddings, birthdays, graduations, and so on. Sometimes, even a nice word from someone is cause for celebration.

Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.

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Write a poem every single day of the year with Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming. After sharing more than a thousand prompts and prompting hundreds of thousands of poems for more than a decade, Brewer picked 365 of his favorite poetry prompts here.

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Here’s my attempt at a Celebration Poem:

“good,” by Robert Lee Brewer

for every victor
there’s a foe
who is a loser
in the know
of unhappiness
& despair
because they’ve lost
& now don’t care
so if you win
please celebrate
but don’t forget
the losers’ fate