Here’s your prompt for the last Friday of April:

Today’s Prompt

Write an anaphora poem about The Body, Costume, and Earth.

I don’t see too many contemporary poems that are heavy on anaphora, perhaps because it’s difficult to make the language sound natural. But anaphora can at least offer a spine for the poem, both physically and thematically. The “I am” repetition in “The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee” is a good example of this.

Here are some paintings and prompts:

The Body

https://artvee.com/dl/an-atomy-of-the-male-body/

Catalogue what has happened to your body.

Costume

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438819

What are you pretending to be?

Earth

https://artvee.com/dl/potato-digging/

From dirt we come and to dirt we will return.