Esther’s Writing Prompt – Promise

For Esther’s challenge:

Writing Prompts

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Your writing prompt word this week is:

PROMISE

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Here’s a poem I did back in 2015, and the explanation of the little challenge I was doing it for.

Today’s prompt was to play a fun game with your poem. Based on a game people play…you make statements about yourself, using a true fact, and two lies. People try to guess which one is the true one. Anyway, it took me forever to even think of some statements. Then…why on Earth did I decide to do another Paradelle poem? It was hard. It took all afternoon. I’m not sure I did it right, even now, but this is what I give you for your entertainment…and, which do you think is my true fact?

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ONE TRUTH, TWO LIES

A truth or a lie is never just black or white

A truth or a lie is never just black or white

Ask me no favors, no promises I keep

Ask me no favors, no promises I keep

Never is a black promise or a white favor

Ask me no lie, just for truth, and I keep…

There’s grains of truth in every lie

There’s grains of truth in every lie

I want to go swimming with the fish in the deep

I want to go swimming with the fish in the deep

There’s deep truth in every swimming fish

Go to the grains with the lie of ‘I want in’

A lie is just a hidden truth

A lie is just a hidden truth

I can’t sit still unless I’m falling asleep

I can’t sit still unless I’m falling asleep

Just sit still…a truth is falling asleep

Unless I’m hidden, I can’t lie

Unless I go swimming, I’m never falling asleep

Fish still want to ask me favors, in the deep grains

White lie is never just black/or is in every truth a lie?

There’s just no promises I can’t keep hidden…A truth…I sit with the Truths of a Lie

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