Our goal is to provide you with a prompt every day from which you are to garner inspiration and submit a poem. How to submit will be very easy. Just put your poem or short story in the comments section and hit post. You may not immediately see your post, but it is there under the "Comments" section. You may need to click on "Comments" to see your poem. It is there on another page.
You may need to have a Gmail or Yahoo or AOL account to post in the comments section. Most of you do have Gmail or Yahoo or AOL, but for those of you that don't it's extremely worthwhile to open up one of these email accounts now! That way you've got a chance to get your work out there in the world.Today's poem or short story prompt is the phrase "Not what it appears."
Are you what you appear?
ReplyDeleteAppearance is in the experience
and judgement of the beholder.
28 Years Since My Last Confession
ReplyDeleteHe isn't in the clouds
He's used to getting his way
He moves quickly
He bores easily
He rarely stands on ceremony
He continually wonders
How with his greatest gift--love
Wars still rage
Streets run riot with blood
Mothers cradle their dead children
It is the superb unnatural order
He made us in his image
So he can't quite grasp
How with so much of everything
For everyone
Every last inhabitant
On this failing blue planet
Greed won
Catherine Powers
August 30, 2013
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