Day-8
NaPoWriMo-2026
Prompt: Here’s our optional prompt for the day! In his poem, “Poet, No Thanks,” Jean D’Amérique repeats the phrase “I wasn’t a poet” multiple times, while describing other things that he instead claims to have been. In your poem for today, use a simple phrase repeatedly, and then make statements that invert or contradict that phrase.
Image: Sneha
Fifties and still struggling
to find the perfect launching
dreamer to the core
sounding very obscure
Like a mirage.
Decades of working through the bones
pushing down the aches and scorns
trying standing tall
in the face of a broken wall
Like a mirage.
Visualizing her younger self
full of dreams in her eyes
carefree and filled with life
chasing stars on tiptoes
Like a mirage.
She remembers the happy days
young and strong and beautiful too
now, broken and shattered
with a crisscrossed road map marked
Like a mirage.
Participating in: NaPoWriMo-2026
I love this. Always the mirage. No matter the age. Lovely way of seeing the future but know that within there is no mirage. Lovely writing. Thank you.
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