I am behind posting my poems for the April 2026 Poem A Day Challenge. I fighting the flu over here. I am feeling better this evening, so I thought I would post the Day 6 poem. For those of you following me through this challenge, I will have the back log of poems posted by the end of week. It will look like Day 7 and 8 posted tomorrow, and Day 9 and 10 posted on April 10. I will post my final poem from the November 2025 PAD Challenge next week.
The prompt for Day 6 was to write a poem about water. Here’s the link to the original prompt and instructions:
https://www.writersdigest.com/2026-april-pad-challenge-day-6
I incorporated some of the words from last week’s poetry prompts into this poem. I had already started to play with the idea of a poem that featured all the words.
“Water”
By Alissa Dedic, 2026
The tears from my eyes
water the seeds of faith
I had planted after
I was splayed open
to cut away the fear like chains
tying me down
to faded images
the past haunted me
until the rain water
washed away the murky mud
doubt and denial spread on me
the gray rain clouds gather
I can smell the rain on the air
coming to rinse the fear away
and water the seeds of faith I planted
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