Words dribble out of my fingers
Raw unfiltered fragments of imagination
Incandescent with flashes of brilliance
Though often followed by long droughts of darkness
Engulfing everything in shades of mediocrity
Write (an acrostic poem)
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Write (an acrostic poem)
Wrestling with all the words
Recording a random assemblage of them
It is worse than a million monkeys reproducing Shakespeare
That’s when most people are ready to give up
Except you can’t. That story needs to be told, so you…
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Trash (an acrostic poem)
The rubbish he was writing piled up around him
Rambling ideas clashing with the other balderdash
Any semblance to story was pure happenstance
So when he was just about to throw the refuse away
He stumbled onto what he was going to write.
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Purge (an acrostic poem)
Putting half her life in the trash never felt good
Until she did it though, there would be no freedom
Reaching for the next stack of poems
Going through each she remembered how hard they had been to write
Even as she let each slip through her fingers into the recycling
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Writing Prompt #1
Writing prompt for those of you stopping in this weekend. Write a story about a person who captures those they see on paper, literally. Your interpretation on what this means and how they do it will be cool to see. Drop the location of your post in the comments so I can read it. 🙂
Never Short On Words 