Writing Prompt
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POEM STARTER
Inspired by Stephanie Lacson
Mortality
Write a poem with a structured rhyme scheme, which focuses on the theme of mortality.
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It occurred to me this evening
As I was driving on my way
Watching the leaves of fall and
The macabre decorations sway
All the things we’ve come to fear
The things that make us hide our eyes
All the monsters that we shy from
Are the phantom death in disguise
There’s those that now return from death
The skeletons and ghosts and zombies too
And those by rites that conquered death
The mummie...
(i like the word prompt but I CANT DO RHYME SCHEMES ITS NOT MY THING)
I bite the hand that feeds me so that maybe it'll let me starve.
My bones form a cage around my heart, isolating it from anyone who wishes to come near me.
The flesh that covers my body merely represents my mortality.
Humans are fragile.
We hate too easy, and love too hard.
I wish I could love someone.
I wish someone co...
Mortality can be a curse
Just like how immortality can
We hear the stories of mythology
And the gods
And even stories of Thor and Loki
How immortality can be a curse as you watch everyone around you perish
But
Just like those gods
Mortality can be a curse for us humans as well
We have limited time
We never know when something traumatic will happen
Constantly dealing with being broken
...
Ideas are immortal
Humans we are not
Though oddly, in our time here,
We ravage the Earth with fraught
We can’t live forever
But our dreams will live free
Immortal and unburdened,
They’ll flourish in a way humans could never be
Many wish they could live forever
With that I disagree
What if everyone moved on
And I was alone with myself and me?
No, we can’t live forever
So don’t be greedy
Be k...
When a man has a heart in his chest, he uses it
He pours it into every single thing he does
He gives it out like he can
He shows it to every person
It’s what makes him mortal
When a man has a heart in his chest, he shares it
He give his heart to his friends
He gives it to a man or woman
He isn’t afraid to
It’s what makes him mortal
When a man has a heart in his chest, a woman/man takes i...
I’ve looked under the couch,
And under the bed.
I’ve looked beneath the chairs,
And in the shed.
I searched in the cabinets,
And in the drawers too,
Then through the shelves,
And in each shoe.
I checked every closet,
And checked in the car,
I even checked the tub,
But no luck so far.
I looked in the garage,
And in the garden too,
Once I finished there,
I had decided I knew.
No matter how...
He ordered a hit on the woman who said
She’d fork over the money when she was dead
He felt very smart as he paid the assassin
For beating her out at her own game of ration
Though the very next day in the morning news
A familiar face disrupted his ruse
For the same woman he’d wanted to gore
Had been killed in a car crash just the night before
He should gave been glad when he saw she was gone
This...