POEM STARTER
Leopards never change their spots.
Write a poem that begins or ends with this line. You could stick with the typical meaning of this saying, or explore different turns of phrase.
Rot
Leopards never change their spots.
All good things, like love,
They will eventually rot.
If love is unchanging
Like a leopard’s spots,
Won’t it be boring
Until the day it rots?
Love is like a leopard
In the sense that it is only
Mortal.
Its cries for help will not be heard
When its time has finally come:
Love is like a leopard’s spots,
For it too has patterns unique to all
Who happen to bear it.
Some love will never fall,
Never rot,
Never change like a leopard’s spots,
But some love will.
Some love is not strong
Enough to hold on
For very long,
So it rots,
Unlike a leopard’s
Unchanging spots.
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