I Take That Back

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH
Written By The Poetry Lab
DAY 26 OF 30  | PROMPT BY LEANNE HUNT

Write a declarative statement in the first line of the poem and retract or change one word in the statement in each subsequent line until only one word remains from the original.

Read the poem "Spat" by Caroline Bird for further example of this technique. (See below)

 

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