Day 8 – NaPoWriMo – Prompt (optional)  for today, “I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that relies on repetition. It can be repetition of a phrase, or just a word. Need a couple of examples? Try “The Bells” by Edgar Allen Poe, or Joy Harjo’s “She Had Some Horses”. Poe’s poem creates a relentless, clanging effect through the repetition of the word “bells,” while Harjo’s repeated use of the phrase “she had some horses” and variations thereof gives her poem poem its incantatory effect, while also deepening its central philosophical conceit of what things are the same and what things are different”.

Seems like I have written this prompt along with the day 6th prompt. 😉

 

Alone!

 

Here I am,
Sitting on the bench all alone,
Here I am,
Who is singing duet songs alone,

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