Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Subjective Hearing? (A Poem for Day One of PAD)


It's time for the April PAD Challenge again! Here is the prompt for day one: For today’s prompt, write a secret poem. This poem can reveal a secret, incorporate a secret activity, or involve any other secret interpretation. Poem written in code (acrostic, anyone?) or with double meanings.

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There Was No Evil to See, Hear, or Smell




He Wasn’t Ignoring You

It’s no secret
she still whispers
I love yous in her mind
to comfort herself
for being unkind—for leaving
him behind—because (she didn’t know
at the time) he wasn’t snubbing
or sneering but simply
hard
of hearing


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[Please note that all prompts have been copied from the Writer's Digest Poetic Asides website.]


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