Sunday, October 04, 2009

Revision: Poem of Lies

This week's writing prompt is write a poem with 31 words. This is a revision of one of my older poems. It's really abstract, but I heard a few poems in the Writers' Conference this summer that had a certain riddle-like quality and I wanted to capture that. Unfortunately, the spacing is not what I intended (there's more white space), but here's the text.
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Poem of Lies

There is always some measure of a lie
in telling the woman I love
she's beautiful
so when I tell you
you're beautiful
I mean really beautiful
you know I mean it.

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