2022 April PAD Challenge: Day 26

Write a poem every day of April with the 2022 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt (the first Two-for-Tuesday prompt of the month), write a love and/or anti-love poem.

My apologies! There's always one day when I get the prompt out late, and it appears to be today (nearly made it through the entire month this year). For long-time PAD participants though, they probably already guessed today's prompt ahead of time.

For the fourth and final Two-for-Tuesday prompt of the 2022 April Poem-A-Day Challenge:

  1. Write a love poem, and/or...
  2. Write an anti-love poem.

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

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Here’s my attempt at a Love and/or Anti-Love Poem:

"thing called love"

ever since i was a little boy
i conjured up images of what 
love must be & was mostly wrong
as far as i can tell but my mistakes
ended up in you with 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.