Shawn L. Bird

Original poetry, commentary, and fiction. All copyrights reserved.

Black out poem 3 August 27, 2022

Filed under: poem,Poetry — Shawn L. Bird @ 8:48 pm
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Black out poem 3 reads as follows:

I pass
on
melodrama.
My show.
I wave time.
I bind a problem.
I lock my smile
I burn this sign.
.

.


(Note the use of the poetic device anaphora in the last 4 lines (i.e. beginning the lines with the same word)

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