Poetry: Anytime, Anyplace, About Anything – What Writers Can Do
By, Donna M. Monnig
Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write each line as a declarative sentence and the last line to end in a question. For Day Seven I give you “What Writers Can Do.”
What Writers Can Do A writer can do anything, anything they want, anything at all. A writer can create a world or destroy one. A writer can enlighten the truth or blind the world with lies. A writer can build people up or break people down. A writer can memorialize one’s success or eternalize one’s shame. They can start a war, or end one. They can all but never die. A writer’s words can live forever, on printed pages, speaking volumes, in books. A writer can possess one’s mind and consume one’s thoughts. A writer can be a millionaire, a hero, and a bad guy, all at one time. A writer can travel through time, living in the past or future. They can change history, create the future, and erase the present, with nothing but a pen. A writer has absolute power to do anything. They’re dangerous. A writer can put people in a book, (people that annoy them) and kill them. Writers can murder people … and get paid for it. (They can kill with the flick of a quill.) Why would anyone risk, a writer’s wrath? ©Donna M. Monnig NaPoWriMo prompt: Day Seven
Again, I’m not much on non-rhyming poetry, but I like this. I really love the ending lines, how fun!
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So glad you enjoyed it. It was fun to write.
God Bless,
Donna
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Beware! anything you say
Can and may
End up in my book someday.
~A Writer
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Couldn’t have put it better myself! What a wonderful little poem; short, sweet, and stunning! Thanks for sharing.
God Bless,
Donna
P.S. Also, thanks for providing me with part of the original inspiration for “What Writers Can Do.”
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You’re welcome! I was wondering, lol.
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I’m not much for muses in general, but it appears that hobos and musical clowns are the exception.
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