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POEM STARTER
"She dropped her dress, and her inhibitions, at the door."
This is an example of a syllepsis, where the meaning of a verb (here 'dropped') is both physical and metaphorical. Write a poem that includes a syllepsis (do not use the example).
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He drove away, and our love did the same
I wonder if he even thinks about me now
I do, I think about him even though he’s
Four hours away
I know where he lives
But at the same time I don’t
It’s been five years
And he hasn’t asked about me
I suppose I haven’t either
But I have an excuse:
If they don’t want me
Then I don’t want to intrude
But among the small amount of things I remember
I reme...
All I want stand on mountaintop.
The bumpy road along the way,
So enjoyed without any doubt.
Heavy rain poured down,
My body and spirit were exhausted.
The illness brought me to tears,
As I felt like never stand up again.
I tell myself to change, how?
Never give up in deep heart.
Never give up your own self.
Spirit comes with passion, takes time.
Daily life comes with routine, takes patience.
Got ...
I can’t stand the way you look at me
So I sit my ass right down.
I meet your avaricious gaze
With a thought provoking frown.
I’ll hold my breath and a bears paw
While I twirl around my drink
Hoping, always, that just for once,
I didn’t have to think:
About the bar, about the scene,
My dress, my shoes, my hair.
All of it an alleged invitation,
For the predators to stare.
I cannot leave the buildin...
Weave,through time, your inability,
forget everything you’ve ever learned and go back to what you once were;
Be greedy with sugar, be greedy with love,
let them destroy your health.
Give up your skills because none of them are worth going through anything.
Read what you don’t enjoy
Love what doesn’t serve you
Drive yourself to a point so excruciatingly empty
soundless
that you won’t even stri...
I want to tell you something
I want to tug heartstrings
I want to learn
I want to be good again
I want to be the person I was
But he's dead
I was doing OK
Like not amazingly but
Good enough
I want to go back
I want it to be the holidays again
I want to be by myself again
I want to be able to write again
I want something
Something indescribable
And even more so
I want to be able to desc...
Butterflies flit outside the window
And inside my stomach
They’re so gentle on the petals of
The morning glory flowers
But in my gut they churn and buzz
Beating their wings against the lunch
I’m close to losing
I’d give a speech, I said
When butter flies
And the butterflies in my stomach
Remind me it’s too late now
To back out of this
One hundred person judgement day
Stick to your guns
And to yo...
I am the one with perfect posture
A ballerina in another life
Approached more than I care to count, embarrassed really,
About my interest in being a model
I am equally eloquent, what some might call silver-tongued
Always with the proper thing to say
Quick as a whip on my feet
Yet there I was, a walking disaster
From the moment I saw you
At the base of the staircase
My poise vanishing in the in...
Now don’t get me wrong
It’s sunshine and rainbows
But it’s falling over
And over again
I feel myself drifting
In oceans with currents
I can’t help from sinking
I blow with the wind
The mirror shows I’m taller
My mom says I’m happy
So why am I scared
Of feeling so whole
Like the half that I carried before him
Was easier to hold
I feel nothing but joy from my hair to my toes
But I long...
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