2010 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 5
For today’s prompt, write a metamorphosis poem. This is an excellent opportunity to use metaphors and/or show changes in a season, person, animal, plant, or whatever. (Hopefully, everyone won’t turn…
For today's prompt, write a metamorphosis poem. This is an excellent opportunity to use metaphors and/or show changes in a season, person, animal, plant, or whatever. (Hopefully, everyone won't turn themselves into Kafka-esque roaches.)
Here's my attempt:
"Development"
As a boy, I flew through clouds and jumped across boulders
without worrying about gravity. But then,
I realized--as if I were a cartoon character suspended in air--
boys turn into men. It's not pretty, and I
searched out all the exits, but they were chained and locked.
Still, there are worse things than not being
able to fly. Now I can see past mountains and rivers and open
fields. Even with glasses, my vision travels
past outer space to the place where the universe expands,
and I am again a boy who's happy and free.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
