For today’s prompt, write a story poem. Think of a story, could be a long, complicated, winding story, but for a poem, it may make more sense to make it a short, direct story.
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Here’s my attempt at a Story Poem:
so they fought over leftovers
& other things that didn't matter
like flowers & three-leaf clovers
& they fought over leftovers
as if they were hopeless lovers
distracted by useless chatter--
still they fight over leftovers
& trivial things that don't matter
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World’s Problems (Press 53). He used to write stories in college.
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