National Poetry Writing Month – Day 16
Today’s prompt is a poem of negation – yes (or maybe, no), I challenge you to write a poem that involves describing something in terms of what it is not, or not like. For example, if you chose a whale as the topic of your poem, you might have lines like “It does not settle down in trees at night, cooing/Nor will it fit in your hand.”
Does not unshackle chains with locks
Or rev to life your shiny car
A variation won’t wind clocks
Does not unshackle chains with locks
Infernal is this thing which blocks!
With this utensil? Ne’er get far…
Does not unshackle chains with locks
Or rev to life your shiny car
defying atrophy 