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Old Poems 4 - Who? Who knows.

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I wake.
The sun dies
in a sky
stained with blood.
The blood of
my prey.
I am emperor.
A fearsome king.
From my throne -
the blackened heavens -
I watch
my silent kingdom.
Sleep, my subjects,
or find
that death flies
on white wings.
A bunch of poems written for a creative writing class I took in high school a long time ago. (I failed it... I never did much of the work.) Looking through, I pretty much hate reading everything in here for the same reason I hated writing it: I hate, hate, hate writing to a prompt. Bleh. I hate being told what to write. I aced the final, but there was no prompt for that. So there.

Writing poetry to a prompt isn't so bad. I can at least be vague and use pretty words. (I love pretty words.)

Prompt was: "Write an image poem that has no more than three words on each line and which is spoken from the point of view of a nocturnal animal as it watches darkness begin."
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ToddTech's avatar
This was actually pretty rad... *likes*