2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 16
Write a poem every day of April with the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, we have our third Two-for-Tuesday prompt.
For today's Two-for-Tuesday prompt:
- Write a poetic form poem, and/or...
- Write an anti-form poem.
If you need some ideas for poetic forms, here's a list of more than 100 poetic forms to try out. And here are 10 short poetic forms, if you think shorter is easier.
Also, if you don't think writing a poetic form or non-form counts as a prompt, write a poem about forms, whether we're talking life forms, the human form, (overdue) tax forms, etc.
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 Poetic Form and/or Anti-Form Poem:
"drowning"
so then we
walk through all the streets
like cats who
come and go
singing songs that we love so—
michelangelo
(This poetic form is a shadorma, and it's a little nod to one of my all-time favorite poems, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T. S. Eliot.)
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.
