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Three rewritten poems
The prompt for day 3 is given by the official website here.
Find a shortish poem that you like, and rewrite each line, replacing each word (or as many words as you can) with words that mean the opposite. For example, you might turn “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” to “I won’t contrast you with a winter’s night.”
I’m Kinetic (Rewritten version of So Tired Blues by Langston Hughes)
With the moon in my hand
I’m gonna hold her close
Right between my breasts-
Cause I’m dynamic,
Dynamic as I can be
Humans (Rewritten version of Trees by Joyce Kilmer)
I think I’d always see
Poems as horrendous as these humans.
Humans whose mouths aren’t pressed
Against the sky’s ever-giving expanse;
Humans who never look at fellow beings,
Or bow their heads down in humility;
Humans who may in winter never open
Their doors for the robins to take shelter;
Upon whose bosom fires are scorching;
Who intimately lives with flames.
