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Writing Prompt

POEM STARTER

Write a poem where the first line of each stanza uses internal rhyme.

Internal rhyme is where words within the same line, or in the middle of different lines, rhyme with each other (not the last word of each line rhyming). e.g. 'I let you see a side of me that isn't seen often'.

Nighttime Plight

A bad dream — you scream out to me,

I come running in a flash.

Shadows crawl across walls and you see,

Them spreading like a rash.


I took your head into my nook,

To calm you from your fears.

We share a look, recite a book,

I distract you from your tears.


A silly game of made up names,

Giggles fill my ears.

Now tame again my little dame,

Your laughs I love to hear.


I hold you tight throughout th...

supermarket radio

crooked teeth, bruised knees, and capital cities sent my head spinning,

questioning things I didn’t think needed questioning.

dance down the aisle to the supermarket radio.

fluorescent lights scrutinise words that ring true,

but we don’t have to acknowledge them if you don’t want to,

not until shared smiles and looks caught across kitchen tiles make it the unavoidable conclusion.


russian wi...

supermarket radio

crooked teeth, bruised knees, and capital cities sent my head spinning,

questioning things I didn’t think needed questioning.

dance down the aisle to the supermarket radio.

fluorescent lights scrutinise words that ring true,

but we don’t have to acknowledge them if you don’t want to,

not until shared smiles and looks caught across kitchen tiles make it the unavoidable conclusion.


russian wi...

Sea

Wondering whether you see the sea or do you see me.

Yearning to be near the sea in order to see the truth about me.

What is it I fear this year, to shed another tear.

New dat dawns with a yawn and a dawn and a same old song.

Living life without strife while dreading the time coming near.

I nearly fear the year my dear, shedding tears.

The day ends, new friends to begin anew.

TessašŸ¦‹...

Broken

People say you’re mean, people say you’re bad but people don’t know why.

I know you don’t mean any harm, you are just doing what your dad taught you all your life.

Traumatized, broken, darkness Inside.

You think nobody loves you, but for you I would give my life.

You deserve to be loved you deserve to laugh.

Your father will one day pay you back.

No matter what happens I’ll always be by your side...

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2 Tries

trying to write something good

trying to light that spark

that special sauce

I think to myself that this must have been the feeling they had that caused the Big Mac to be created

I’ve waited and waited to write for too long

Not realizing the sparks been hiding under my fingers



15 or more tries to write this prompt

Two survived this war that has been going on

Between me and my inner critic

I g...

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Long Play Baby

Contemplative, complicated, consequated

Long play baby.

Illiterately brilliant, she’s never

Always sometimes maybe.


Gone for good, back next week.

She stood herself up with a 24 bug,

An array of strangeties and novelties

And a deadly dangerous undying love.


She’s just too perfect for me

And that’s a major no-no

Because I know no reason why

She wanted to go on solo.


Met her in my simple sights....

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Breakdown

On the edge, looking down,

Falling down, down, down,

Debts and worries, stress

Just hurries, around and around.

My head is full. My head is full.

Tick, tick, tick, tick.


I’m fed up of finding sanctuary

In soft porn and drugs.

There’s no sanctity, no sanity

In soft comma porn and drugs.

Drugs, drugs, drugs, stop.


I’m on the edge of admiring

Everything I could be.

I’m on the edge of believing

The ...

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Clever Girl

Little raptor so very far

On an island, above the great star

Does your stomach twist too?

When you’re hungry and you catch your prey

Can you eat it?

Or, does your neck twist over 1000 times

Does your heart flutter and your breath catches

When you are just doing your thang?


It aches and brakes

My daily chores

So I was just wondering dear Velociraptor

If you had similar symptoms?

Because w...

betrayal

We were friends once and now we have met our end.

I let you go peacefully because you still ment the world to me.

But instead of doing the same you added on to my pain.

Trying to rip all of my other friends away even though you knew that at the end of the day you would break me.

That's the thing though, you didn't care; you just kept insaulting me.

Its not fair because I was the one who held your ...

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