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POEM STARTER
Write a dramatic monologue from a character that you would like to explore.
A dramatic monologue is a poem written as if someone is speaking to an unseen listener. You could write as a character from media, or one you've made up.
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Over by the livery;
When be I wasn’t supposed,
I left my home and went on
To meet my girl at Hickory;
(An oak we named amid ourselves,
Branded for our keeping;)
Yonder where the mountains breathe;
I traversed with huffing eyes,
Where caverns’ wrathful answer loud,
To men with flames on their heads
Who rouse contention in the rocks;
And falter ‘neath the staggering,
Sodden, crashing lowly caves;
‘...
They do not understand how it is in my nature to consume. Humans, animals. Mortals! They are all alike. Passionless, uncreative being the lot of them! And yet they scream and scamper when I crawl from my watery tomb. I have been trapped for millennia, and it feels wonderful to stretch my wings and wrap my tentacles around prey. Their buildings and cars are mere playthings; a rough exoskeleton hidi...
It’s not very easy coming back from the dead.
Once the tears and jubilations have faded, you start to see the ways they’d started to move on. It’s not so simple to just reverse that.
Dane- I feel like he looks right through me. Like he thinks I really am dead; and maybe I’m just a ghost. Isadora talks about me in the past tense and jumps a little when I clear my throat. Sometimes I watch how she...
If I were Eleanor from “Eleanor and Park’’
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In a world that doesn't fit,
where the edges are sharp and the corners don't sit,
I am auburn and awkward, a misfitting piece,
in the jigsaw of high school, where comforts cease.
They say red is the color of passion and love,
but for me, it's the taunts from the grades above,
The ones blind to the fire that burns in my soul,
the dreams and desires t...
Art is only finsihed when the artist walks away
Love is the same
I met him in fall
When the leaves echoed melodies of movement
And children climbed trees far too tall for safety
When color was everywhere,
And I didn’t have to search for it.
I didn’t kiss him when I felt like it
Or when I wanted to
I kissed him when there was no other choice.
It was him, or the darkness
He acted as light to m...
I know what they expect. I know what they want me to do. A well-bred lady such as myself should find the choice to never let that woman darken my doorway ever again as easy as breathing.
But I can barely breathe as I think of turning her out, of turning her away. She’s the strongest woman I have ever known but my rejection of her would destroy her and send her to perdition.
No matter that ther...
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