PAD 1: The Challenge

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The Annual Poem-A-Day Challenge

I am attempting the Poem-A-Day (PAD) Challenge for April 2024, which is hosted by Robert Lee Brewer on Writer's Digest. April is National Poetry Month, which was begun in April 1996 by the Academy of American Poets. 

In doing some research about celebrations of poetry, I also discovered that UNESCO established World Poetry Day in Paris in 1999; since then, this day occurs every year on March 21st (a day special to me because it is the anniversary of my baptism).

PAD Challenge, Day 1 prompt: write an optimistic poem. Here goes:

The Challenge

I am optimistic:
A poem every day,
Some a meager stanza,
Some with more to say.

With grit and perseverance
And discipline of self,
I will have thirty poems to
Increase my notebook's wealth.

While often life's a fury,
Some things get left behind,
Yet still my goal is thirty
To exercise my mind.