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Printed from https://web1.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2227002-Random-Acts-of-Poetry/day/2-16-2025
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Rated: 13+ · Book · Emotional · #2227002

A poem a day keeps the cobwebs off my keyboard.

A place for the poetry that I will need to write now that I made a special book for it.
February 16, 2025 at 6:35am
February 16, 2025 at 6:35am
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Handmade Gifts


Her stray hairs stayed by hand instead of a brush,
she sits in a confluence of strings and threads,
which flow from totes and baskets and bags,
knotted on needles and looms and hooks.

She’s waited too long to start, hence the rush.
She should have shopped Amazon instead.
Then it would be paper and ribbons and nametags
wrapped round neckties and booze and books.



Written for "PromptMaster !Open in new Window.


Task Prompt:
Write a poem using polysyndeton: adding multiple conjunctions in close succession for emphasis
(e.g., “We lived and laughed and loved and left”).


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