#NaPoWriMo #April #2023
Our optional daily prompt, once again pulled from our archives. Today’s prompt is a poem of negation – yes (or maybe, no), I challenge you to write a poem that involves describing something in terms of what it is not, or not like. For example, if you chose a whale as the topic of your poem, you might have lines like “It does not settle down in trees at night, cooing/Nor will it fit in your hand.”
Happy writing!
❤️I had a go at this one and wrote it in a series of Triolets - following Hardy's example again. Can you guess what it is? There is a clue in there somewhere lol 🤣❤️
A Series of Triolets of Negation
It's not a knife that brings you pain.
Not a hand grenade to blow up!
It does not bring you any gain.
It's not a knife that brings you pain.
No song though it has a refrain. Can't drink tea from it - so no cup.
It's not a knife that brings you pain.
Not a hand grenade to blow up!
It's not rain or the petrichor.
Not the sun or the evening breeze.
It's not flowers, nor golden ore.
It's not rain or the petrichor.
No bird, no plane, no apple core.
No superman to give us ease.
It's not rain or the petrichor.
Not the sun or the evening breeze.
It is not of day, not of night.
There's no silver or precious gems.
Not an angel crowned in the light.
It is not of day, not of night.
It won't be called a wondrous sight.
Not orchids on delicate stems.
It is not of day, not of night.
There's no silver or precious gems.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2023
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