How Wonderful the Ways of Ink

For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets write a poem a day in the month of November. Day 3 is to write a how blank poem. behold the rolling sea unfurledupon a barren page... how wonderful the ways of inkas swirls upon a stageof parchment, paint a blossom pinkOr, spill a canon, sage how endless are the avenuesand trails that ink-blades blazethrough wilds borne from font-curlicues centuries cannot faze behold the rolling sea unfurledupon a barren pageor, ink-frigates that sail the world while blizzards brawl and rage how holy are the howls of inkunveiled for all to seefar able to eclipse the winkof mere mortality how wonderful, how terriblethe ways of ink revealthe broken, yet invinciblebeauty of love's appeal how wildly ink attempts to snareThought's beast and set it freeupon a stage of parchment where a poem waits to be how wonderful the ways of inkhow strangely 'fun', the vergeof waiting on a poem's brinkto see what will emerge Janet Martin how wonderful the ways of inkas swirls upon a stageof parchment, paint a blossom pinkOr, spill a canon, sage