2026 April PAD Challenge: Day 11
Write a poem a day with poets from around the world for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a home poem.
For today's prompt, write a home poem. For some, home is where the heart is, but others believe home is wherever they lay their head. There's also home field advantage, home base, and a home away from home. Maybe home is a house, or maybe it's something else entirely.
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 Home Poem:
“homecoming,” by Robert Lee Brewer
the child remembers the eternity
of winter rippling across time & space
getting busted outside a donut shop
for looking in the window for a face
he might recognize only to realize
he was looking in the incorrect place
now a man the child finds he's still searching
(forever searching) for a bit of grace
