Or, to put it in less confusing terms, National Poetry Writers Month.
I am not a writer or a poet except that I write sometimes and sometimes I write things that could be a poem if you are being generous. But, today I will try to use a prompt!
"write a poem that has the same first line as another poem"
Rather than overthink it, I will choose a random first line from my shelf. And the winner is...
What name do I have for you?
(first line of "Just Walking Around" by John Ashbery.)
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What
name do I have for you?
You
are the nameless one; we call you by all names.
I
call you mother, mama, mommy. Or father, daddy, grandpa.
You
are my dearest friend and my beloved. You
Are
the stranger who knows my deepest secrets.
Sometimes
I call you in wordless cries, with tears and moaning.
Or,
in silence, in stillness.
Your
name is in the wind.
In
the call of the whippoorwill, the red-winged blackbird.
Your
name is the purring of the cat.
Your
name is the shriek of the owl at night.
Your
name cannot be voiced; your voice cannot be named.
The
name I have for you comes to me clearly only in dreams.
You
are eternity.
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