"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson



Sunday, April 10, 2011

Reflection

Write a poem back to front?
Some would say one simply can't.
Direction doesn't matter, though.
This example goes to show
Poetry grows either way
And either way grows poetry.
This example goes to show
Direction doesn't matter, though
Some would say one simply can't
Write a poem back to front.


~ Tamary Shoemaker
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(Response to a prompt at NaPoWriMo to write a poem backward, line by line. After a few lines I realized it would make sense forward as well, so it turned into this mirror poem just to see if I could make it work.)

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