2022 April PAD Challenge: Day 17

Write a poem every day of April with the 2022 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a mad poem.

For today's prompt, write a mad poem. There are things that make us mad as well as things that drive us mad. Whatever your interpretation of the word, I hope you have fun with this prompt.

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

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Write a poem every single day of the year with Robert Lee Brewer's Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming. After sharing more than a thousand prompts and prompting thousands of poems for more than a decade, Brewer picked 365 of his favorite poetry prompts here.

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Here’s my attempt at a Mad Poem:

"Fishing on Mad River"

A good place for trout
and to watch out for
all manner of planes
while plainly hoping
for a bite on the line
and a moment's respite
from the worries of
the world that often
make it feel like an
upstream swim but
here there's a chance
for the rush of wind
and water and perhaps
a catch.

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 Solving the World's Problems, 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.