2012 April PAD Challenge: Day 8
For today’s prompt, write a rejected poem. Despite some acceptances, many of my poems have been rejected for submission over the years–but that’s not quite what I mean by rejected poem. I’m more…
For today's prompt, write a rejected poem. Despite some acceptances, many of my poems have been rejected for submission over the years--but that's not quite what I mean by rejected poem. I'm more interested in poems that work the idea of rejection into the poem somehow. This could take the form of a poet lamenting rejection, though also a rejected friend or student or whatever.
Here's my attempt:
"When"
the seasons gather & twist me
& murder me & betray me when
you say, "no. please no," even as
the sun says, "yes," & the moon says,
"yes," & the stars & the snow &
rain & puddles & birds & leaves
falling from trees or falling from me
as you say, "no. not now. never."
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