17) Split Personality

 
This is another Borrowed Prompt.
In my "saved for someday" corner I found a sheet titled:
Writing Prompts by Kelli Russell Agodon – www.agodon.com
Some of them are good old standards already in our playlist,
something someone developed for a workshop and others
have revised for clarity or kicks.

This one couldn’t be put more clearly. And, boy, does it ever show the power of a title!


Write a poem in two sections about two completely different things.
Have the title link both items in some (surprising?) way.

4 thoughts on “17) Split Personality

  1. So I too will save your borrowed prompt for another day.

    Today is National Haiku Day and the NaPoWriMo prompt was to write a poem inspired by a piece of music and to share that piece’s title as the title of the poem. Because traditional haiku do not have titles, I decided to find several five syllable song titles to use as the first lines of haiku. I selected three songs by Bob Dylan as my inspiration.

    like a rolling stone
    tumbled ashore by high tide
    clouds obscure the moon

    blowin’ in the wind
    single leaf cartwheels on the grass
    unexpected grace

    tangled up in blue
    bare branches on a cloudless sky
    dandelion sun

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