2026 April PAD Challenge: Day 14
Write a poem a day for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt, write a form and/or anti-form poem.
Once we get through today, we'll officially be two weeks into this challenge. And each week finishes up with a Two-for-Tuesday prompt this year.
For the second Two-for-Tuesday prompt:
- Write a poetic form poem and/or...
- Write an anti-form poem.
And if you'd like another angle into this prompt, write a poem that considers form and/or structures; and/or the opposite of form and/or structures.
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 Form and/or Anti-Form Poem:
“moon joy,” by Robert Lee Brewer
forgive the lonely trespassers
but also the lovers
lounging in quiet meadows
i am every blade of grass
your naked foot presses firm
to the unmovable earth
i am an estranged pause
coveting your attention
beneath the solitary moon
i am a fool stranded
in the darkness of this landscape
wandering aimless as a ghost
even wild madmen fall in love
& maybe we fall deeper
than most ordinary men
we dissolve like stars
dissolve like fortune cookies & oranges
dissolve like the prayers of children
(Note on the form: I decided to write a triversen by stitching together several little snippets I'd been working on recently.)
