2011 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 18
OMG! We’re already 60% of the way through November? C’est impossible! Even if you’re just now learning about this challenge, it’s not too late to jump in, but time is…
OMG! We're already 60% of the way through November? C'est impossible! Even if you're just now learning about this challenge, it's not too late to jump in, but time is definitely running out. That said...
For today's prompt, write an "it's too late" poem. Nobody likes a quitter, but sometimes you have to "know when to hold them, know when to fold them..." There are times when it's just too late, and today is the day to write that poem--before it's too late, of course.
Here's my attempt:
"Editor"
My mouth is sometimes a cloth
that wipes clean smudges and similes
like metaphors found on glass.
The past is the past, but my eyes
trigger the memories she nearly
forgot, and her smile runs across
my heart beats like line breaks
in poems I should've written
before she left, though maybe
I did, and they still didn't work,
and my mouth is sometimes a cloth
that wipes clean the jagged edges
cutting black holes in my past.
Or maybe my mouth is a mouth,
and my mind just catches fire.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
