Writing Prompt
POEM STARTER
Submitted by Esperanza
End a poem with the line:
'When does a man become a monster?'
Writings
Monster
What a monster is
Is not how it was born
But rather what was changed.
Maybe this man
Was happy from the start
And he lived a great life
Then it fell apart
He gasped for fresh air
And a hand to hold
But did not have one
And he began to fold.
Or
A man who was hurting
From the beginning.
Someone who was in a hard family
And a father and mother
Who angrily
Made him regret his life.
A man ...
Red
The scarlet blood
On your pale skin
Is dangerously beautiful
Your lips
Your arms
Your neck
My fingertips.
I want it
I want you
I want
To feel you tremble
As I
Taste
Your
Blood.
I want
To watch you
Panic
As you
Finally
Understand
That I
Will
Destroy
You.
I want
To paint
The glittering
Rubies
That drip
Enticingly
Onto
The floor.
I want
To bottle
You
And bring you
Out
When I
Am most lonely.
I ...
Everyone Is A Monster
When does a baby become a boy?
The baby starts to walk to his future
Little steps even falling now and then
When does a boy become a man?
Learning to decide for a better future
Succeeding every now and then
But what comes after being a man?
Feeling like there is no good future
Making bad decisions now and then
What is the man now?
Seeing no hope in the future
Giving up now and then
When does a...
I Plead 'Not Guilty'
I watch as the prison guard shackles my hands and feet, the chains jangling. If you distance yourself away enough, it sounds a little like tinkling chimes... a broken music box. Huh. Who'd have thought it.
It's been a kind of haze, I've been living in. I've been living in a kind of 'half-light'. I wonder if I'm in shock?
Probably.
She's gone, isn't she? So what does that make me?
I knew every ...
Monsters Amongst Us
At the end of eighth grade he killed
a random girl who walked home from school
the afternoon before graduation
On the first day of ninth grade they caught him
hauled him away
despite his loud claims of innocence
As he smashed and kicked
his silhouette misshapen and angry in the back of the cop car
I wondered, “when does a man become a monster?”...