2026 April PAD Challenge: Day 25
Write a poem a day with poets from around the world for the 2026 April PAD Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a remix poem.
You're here on a Saturday at the end of April to keep poeming. That's awesome; you're awesome; let's have some more fun.
For today's prompt, write a remix poem. Pick a poem you wrote earlier this month and re-create it in a new way. Maybe you take a sonnet and turn it into free verse, or a haiku. Maybe your free verse can be turned into a triolet or villanelle. Or you can mash up multiple poems into a new creation. Take some risks with this one.
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 Remix Poem:
“Openly Shut,” by Robert Lee Brewer
We woke up to the news
a storm fired up on the horizon.
After all this time,
I am an estranged pause
kissing the world with my eyes.
The child remembers the eternity
of birds soaring into the indigo sky,
because there's nothing else to do.
Let him return at a secret hour
as lovers set off into the mountains
searching high and looking both ways.
As the evening covers us and the storm
rushes over me on the wrong side
of hearing a howl or a yammer,
he looked up at the sky and opined,
"I want more than to be civil.
I think we all do."
There's nothing as sweet
or quickly taken for granted as
a voice beckoning all who wander near.
Somewhere somebody is speeding along,
and your suspect is from just down the road.
(A note on my remix: I took at least part of every poem I wrote for this year's challenge, with the exception of Day 9, which just had nothing to offer, except inspiration for the title. So I used a little bit of everything in the end for this remix.)
