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Negative Space challenge: The Prompt - Write a poem shaped by what's missing. Let an absence, omission, or empty space become as important as what you put on the page. Negative space is what surrounds the subject. In a poem, it can be silence, omission, white space, or the thing the speaker refuses to name. Write a poem shaped by what's missing. Maybe it's a person who never appears, a word you keep avoiding, a gap in a memory, or something the reader can feel without ever being told directly. Use form, line breaks, repetition, restraint, or even the space on the page itself to make that absence felt. Whatever approach you choose, the emptiness should do real work in the poem.
By Denise E Lindquistabout a month ago in Poets
Drowning
Drowning I watch him drown in wood and paper, a slow suffocation I am forced to contain. He plugs my corners with cardboard and laces my skirtings with copper veins begging me to hold the noise he cannot generate. I let joists groan under the weight of terror. I let unread novels accumulate like dust with an army of paper soldiers stationed to keep my silence from bleeding through walls. He calls it curation but he only builds a dam against the quiet.
By Alyson Smith about a month ago in Poets
