Day 8 National Poetry Writing Month Prompt is to write a palinode: defined as when a poet retracts a statment made in an earlier poem. Prism was previously posted under One Sentence Poems. Posting these just under the wire today.
If you’ve not seen my Sunrise Return to Sweden, published this morning — please do scroll down and take a peek — one of my favorites.
Prism
When I’m asked, How do you see the world?
I squint a bit under the bright light
looking for the crimson of her scarf
and answer, Through a kaleidoscope.
Palinode
As she slips through the crowd
not acknowledging me again,
I clear my throat and add,
But mostly as a labyrinth.
lillian the home poet 