For today’s prompt, take the phrase “The (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles could include: “The Poets,” “The Good Guys,” “The Bad Guys,” “The Last Thing She Said,” and so on.
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The Trauma
The first skin that covers the gaping hole
- the first time you find you are still alive-
shows you
the contours
of the rest of your life
the hard, odd shape of your hope
of your endurance
and your endurance to be.
