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Day-5 NAPOWRIMO-2021

I am a huge fan of Nayyirah Waheed. Her poems speak to me at different levels. I have taken one of her poems " Birthmarks" to complete this challenge.

                                                                  image; sneha

I am a shadow

Inverted in spaces

Along the seasons  across waters.

Trudging-

Breathing in hiccups.

May I sin

Many folds and many times.

Merging in the milieu .

Nobody has power over me

Until my heart says so

Tow shall I

obscure lines

allowing

grief and joy to be my own.

Participating in : https://www.napowrimo.net/day-five-8

Prompt: This prompt challenges you to find a poem, and then write a new poem that has the shape of the original, and in which every line starts with the first letter of the corresponding line in the original poem. If I used Roethke’s poem as my model, for example, the first line would start with “I,” the second line with “W,” and the third line with “A.” And I would try to make all my lines neither super-short nor overlong, but have about ten syllables. I would also have my poem take the form of four, seven-line stanzas. I have found this prompt particularly inspiring when I use a base poem that mixes long and short lines, or stanzas of different lengths. Any poem will do as a jumping-off point, but if you’re having trouble finding one, perhaps you might consider Mary Szybist’s “We Think We Do Not Have Medieval Eyes” or for something shorter, Natalie Shapero’s “Pennsylvania.”