2017 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 2
Yesterday was fun, but we’ve got plenty of poeming left to do this month! For today’s prompt, write a disguise poem. In our neck of the woods, we just finished…
Yesterday was fun, but we've got plenty of poeming left to do this month!
For today’s prompt, write a disguise poem. In our neck of the woods, we just finished celebrating Halloween, which is all about wearing disguising (and begging for candy). But there are also spies, practical jokes, and other reasons to wear disguises. Plus, some people disguise their true selves on their online social media profiles--not to mention all the disguises used by plants, animals, and insects in the natural world.
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Here’s my attempt at a Disguise Poem:
“if i say”
i never cared for you
would you believe me
or would you consider
it another hidden meaning
one word disguised as another
& if i say that i cared for you
but not your actions
would my words seem cloaked
or would you understand
i can feel two ways at once
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of the poetry collection, Solving the World’s Problems (Press 53). He edits Poet’s Market and Writer’s Market, in addition to writing a free weekly WritersMarket.com newsletter and a poetry column for Writer’s Digest magazine.
He's not sure if he disguises his words, but they do often have multiple personalities, which may be the same thing. Completely unrelated, he dressed as Bob Wiley from the early 90s film "What About Bob" for Halloween this year.
Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
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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.
