2026 April PAD Challenge: Guidelines – Writer’s Digest<\/a> is also offering daily prompts throughout April. The first is to write a “seed poem.” This isn’t a form. It is meant to challenge you to think about the meaning of “seed.” Literal, figurative – other forms of the word, like “seedy” are fine.<\/p>\n My local chapter of the Poetry Society of Texas<\/a>, Poets Northwest<\/a> (so named because we’re in northwest Houston, not because we are ex-pats writing from the Pacific northwest!) also offers prompts for each day in April, thanks to Karen Mastracchio<\/a>. Today’s prompt: Burning.<\/p>\n A number of my poet friends have combined the first two prompts into one. I wonder if I can write a poem that encompasses all three? Sure!<\/p>\n Apricot sweetness \u2014 What do you think of the poem? I wrote it pretty quickly and I don’t expect it to win any prizes.<\/p>\n Do you like prompts or do they leave you cold? For me, “it depends.”<\/p>\n If you are participating in National Poetry Month, I invite you to leave a link or write your poem here in the comments. Keep a copy – I reserve the right to decline or delete comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A poem using three prompts from three different sites to kick off day one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137990899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":{"highlight_sharing":"default","image_sharing":"default","headline_sharing":"default"},"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[2717,2716,2791,2789,2790,2788,2787,2779,2725,2772,2792,2728],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-137990897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing","tag-a2zchallenge","tag-atozchallenge","tag-naglopowrimo","tag-napowrimo","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-pad","tag-poem-a-day","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-prompts","tag-poets-northwest","tag-stafford-challenge"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 15:51:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137990897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137990997,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990897\/revisions\/137990997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137990899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137990897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137990897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137990897"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=137990897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Illustration](\"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/apricot2-500x280.png\")
<\/p>\nApricots<\/h2>\n
\nBurst of angiosperm juice
\ncovers sticky hands!
\nSeeds hide burning poison pills,
\nalmond-flavored cyanide.<\/p>\nOther National Poetry Month Posts<\/h2>\n
Your Turn!<\/h2>\n