2022 April PAD Challenge: Day 20
Write a poem every day of April with the 2022 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a six words poem.
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For today's prompt, write a poem using at least three of the following six words. Or go for extra credit and use all six. Here are the six words:
- Content
- Double
- Guide
- Meet
- Pump
- Suit
Also, just because people tend to ask every year, I'm totally fine with people "bending" words (like turning "suit" into "suite" and/or "meet" into "meat"). Have fun, y'all!
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Play with poetic forms!
Poetic forms are fun poetic games, and this digital guide collects more than 100 poetic forms, including more established poetic forms (like sestinas and sonnets) and newer invented forms (like golden shovels and fibs).
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Here’s my attempt at a Six Words Poem:
"track meet"
i'll double up in the half
and the full mile if it makes
you smile in your track suit
pass the baton and i'll guide
us to the finish line as i pump
my legs and arms and breathe
and breathless i'm content
just to know that when i
collapse when i'm done
you'll be smiling over me
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.
