2022 April PAD Challenge: Day 20

In case you missed it, we just dropped the most recent episode of our Writer's Digest Presents podcast, and this episode is focused solely on poetry with a discussion of poetry by the WD editors followed by a roundtable of poets. Click here to give it a listen. 

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:

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).

Click to continue.

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"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