It’s not
real.
It is
now. Tomorrow,
next week,
year.
It’s not
what should be
the past; it’s what
the past should be.
Not the last, but
should have been
what was.
It is
all that I
hoped had not,
or that it be not
what was
—is.
That it never be
, or today be a lot different.
But as much as I want,
what has happened cannot
be changed. What is
will remain what it is.
NaPoWriMo 2023. A poem built on negation
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.”
NaPoWriMo Day Sixteen Prompt
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