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Birthday Presents for a Preteen
Say It Again challenge - The Prompt: Write a satirical poem that repeats one line at least three times. Each time it appears, its meaning should shift or deepen. Repetition can sharpen a point or quietly undo it. Here, it needs to do both. Build your poem around a line that comes back at least three times. Each return should shift how it reads, shaped by what surrounds it and what’s already been said. By the final repetition, the line shouldn't land the way it did at the start.
By Denise E Lindquist5 months ago in Poets
Cheddar Cheese And Strawberry Jam
Introduction At first, I was going to do this as a sonnet, but then thought I would try it as a visual butterfly cinquain and try and make the visual representation look like a sandwich. When I tell people how much I love this they think I am a nutter, but they convert when they actually try it.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 5 months ago in Poets
Don't Turn Around
There is something behind me. I feel it in the way the air shifts— a breath that isn't mine, a shadow that moves when I stop moving. I don't look. I've learned not to look. The floorboards speak a language I never taught them, creaking confessions of weight that shouldn't be there. Still — I don't turn around. It follows the rhythm of my heartbeat, patient as winter, quiet as a secret. So I walk forward. Eyes ahead. Steps steady. Because the worst thing about whatever stands behind me — is what I might see if I finally turn around.
By Vanand Nirav5 months ago in Poets
