Category: PAD 2026
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Day 14 Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Month of Writing Negative Space Poetry I.Breath on a Windowpane it gathers,an apparition of warmth.a cloudy bloom on cold glasswhere your lipsleft breath. and thenit thins from the edgesuntil nothing is leftbut clear glass. II. Senryuwinter breathing springthe old roof stretches its backand steams in the sun Prompt word: Temporary. Written for Writer’s Digest…
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Day 13 Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Month of Writing Negative Space Poetry I.The Luck of Wisdom wisdom leans againstsummer’s open door,architecture shoulderinghis weight. birds in the pinesing to him. that knackof his to speaktheir languages,listen to all they say. but from a distancehe’s silence. he adjusts his hat,gives himself a scratch,and grins. “itchy bum —good luck to come.” II.Heraclitus’s River…
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Day 12 Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Month of Writing Negative Space Poetry Prompt word: strange I.Somewhere Else strange, this hospitalwhere hallways whisper, clocks tickand lick away time. a white cane.an eyepatch. the slow paceof feet in thissomewhere else. II.Clock Face for somea clockis time. for someit ticks and ticks,and nothing more. Written for Writer’s Digest NovPAD Chapbook Challenge. Prompt word…
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Day 11 Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Month of Writing Negative Space Poetry An ekphrastic poem after Gustave Courbet’s Le Désespéré The Space Between there must be a placebetween what has happenedand what happens next where one can putthis terrible knowing. but thought has no walls,no door to beat against,no window to break. despair, to be both the handand the thing…
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Day 10 Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Month of Writing Negative Space Poetry I. Sky Game (a cinquain* poem) past eight,sunrise stitchestic-tac-toe contrails,each journey glued across blue.a draw. II. A Flood Knows Its Shape (a poem without form) the riverknew its place. rain camewithout knocking. the hills emptiedtheir pocketsinto its throat. it rose,shouldered the reeds,took the low field, then the gate…
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Day 9 Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Month of Writing Negative Space Poetry Windfall in that darkness,in that silence,in the simple grip of night, from the topmost branchit twisted away, fumbled with the wind,fell, scrambledthrough the air, branch to branchto branch, until upon the groundapples apples bounced. a hop a hopby a coal-black crow, a feast of fruiton a winter’s day.…
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Day 9 Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Month of Writing Negative Space Poetry The Old Call barren, she turnedto barren ground took shovel and heartto the driving ache,broke soil, sowed, dug in the miraclesof manure and mud. the plants droppedseed by seed, and asked so how many childrendo you have? Today’s prompt: help Written for Writer’s Digest NovPAD Chapbook Challenge. ©Misky…
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Day 8 Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Month of Writing Negative Space Poetry True Stain she called it widow poetry.a dead art. feeble stuffyou’d say to a catbecause there’s nobody elseto talk to. her language went dry as sand until one day she readWilliam Shakespeare’sThe Rape of Lucrece. the blind fate of language,she said,swelled her own wordswith heat and light. today’s…
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Day 7 Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Month of Writing Negative Space Poetry Resigned her mirror knowsher face — and knows what it meanswhen she pauses,stares, and thenwalks away. written for Day 7 NovPAD Written for Writer’s Digest NovPAD Chapbook Challenge. Prompt word is: Feeling ©Misky 2006-2026. Scomtoma is a partially diminished or degenerated field of vision, ie, a negative space…
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Day 6 Poem-a-Day Challenge
A Month of Writing Negative Space Poetry Power Fire was not given.It was keptin a bowl of stone,in a hand. In a bloodline. And when it went out,the dark came back,and the darkremembered everything. Written for Writer’s Digest NovPAD Chapbook Challenge. Prompt word is: Power ©Misky 2006-2026. Scomtoma is a partially diminished or degenerated field…
