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Poem 1 | Poem 2

The poems are on deviantART because...well...viewing difficulties :V .

Prompt 1 Use a discarded poem to create a new poem, or finish/revise that discarded poem.

Jerusalem
oracles
situated in a historical sense
move in small movements—
shuffle.

recognition—
stripped of illusions.

live coal to lips—
leading to repentance.

forgetting | fidelity | disobedience

oscillate
on this path—
redeemed in
‘exile’
suffering in
‘spirit.’

“Renew the spirit of my
country: we suffer.”

'Learning through suffering.'

might’ve been retrojected.


Prompt 2 Judge a book by its cover.

Ghrey
actually,
this is a misnomer—
this is a world based on color—

where the flight of vultures
and the call of whales
is an art of interpretation

where history is counted
by the number of stanzas
in a long, continuous song

where vision is seen with the ears,
and
where singing and writing and thinking
share the same word,
‘being’

Prompt 1

umoya
the first umoya
were twins:
one decided
it wanted a life
where all paths
are unconceived,
and each breath
something different;

so that it could be
immortal.
this one became ‘wind’

the other decided
it wanted a conscious,
so that it knew when one path
was more enjoyable than the other;

so that it knew
which path would be the end of it,
and so prolong its life.
this one became ‘spirit.’


Prompt 2

ramen
is not instant
(unless pasta is instant)
is not pasta
is not good with cheese
is delicious with sriracha
is delicious with eggs
is delicious with chili oil
is fine as just stir-fried noodles
is warm in the stomach—

excuse me, i’m hungry.

prompt1 make something based on a phrase (you can't make a stone bleed or something like that).


well actually,
this stone
is full of earthy juice
and
when squeezed with force
it will bleed
it’s simply that
no one is quite strong enough
to manage it.


prompt2

four-leafed poem
one
two
three
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