2020 April PAD Challenge Countdown: T-minus 7
Poem along with the first ever April PAD Challenge Countdown, in which Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and a poem (to get things started) in the 10 days leading up to the 2020 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a short form poem.
Poem along with the first ever April PAD Challenge Countdown, in which Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and a poem (to get things started) in the 10 days leading up to the 2020 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today's prompt, write a short form poem.
I hope everyone's been having fun so far in this countdown to the challenge. I know I've been enjoying it. And now, we're only a week from April!
For today’s prompt, write a short form poem. I've included a list of short forms below (just click on each link to learn more about them). But honestly, any poem with fewer than 10 lines, whether it's a traditional form or not would work for today's prompt. Also, if you don't consider writing a form enough of a prompt, write about size (large or small) in your poem today.
Here are some short forms to check out and try:
- Clogyrnach. Welsh 6-liner.
- Dodoitsu. Japanese 4-liner.
- Lai. French 9-liner.
- Lune. American haiku.
- Nonet. 9-line countdown poem.
- Shadorma. Spanish 6-liner.
- Triolet. French 8-liner.
Remember: These prompts are just springboards; you have the freedom to jump in any direction you want.
Re-create Your Poetry!
Revision doesn’t have to be a chore–something that should be done after the excitement of composing the first draft. Rather, it’s an extension of the creation process!
In the 48-minute tutorial video Re-creating Poetry: How to Revise Poems, poets will be inspired with several ways to re-create their poems with the help of seven revision filters that they can turn to again and again.
Here’s my attempt at a Short Form Poem:
"None Yet"
Maybe the first line is the hardest,
or maybe it's the second line.
Either way, the third gets a
little easier and
soon you're not even
counting the words,
syllables
drying
up.
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
