Today I’d
like to challenge you to write a poem that relies on repetition. It
can be repetition of a phrase, or just a word. Need a couple of
examples? Try “The
Bells” by Edgar Allen Poe, or Joy Harjo’s “She
Had Some Horses”. Poe’s poem creates a relentless, clanging
effect through the repetition of the word “bells,” while Harjo’s
repeated use of the phrase “she had some horses” and variations
thereof gives her poem poem its incantatory effect, while also
deepening its central philosophical conceit of what things are the
same and what things are different.
White, White
she lives within white
walls
white floor
white canvas
white paint in broad
brushstrokes
white on white
the hint of a shadow
from white titles
white sheets, white
dreams
she writes white lies
on white paper
bleeding white sap from
white, white bone.
white novels with white
covers
white lettering on
white boards
white words etched on
white skin
whitewashed
a white man's
right-wing world
white-out
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