Wednesday, November 25, 2020

November Chapbook Challenge Day 25: Blowing Up the Sky

 Today's prompt from Robert Lee Brewer: Write an "exaggeration" poem. I interpreted the prompt by exaggerating the images and metaphor a bit in this poem - not sure how well that works, but here it is. (It's also a nod to November sunsets, which in my opinion seem to be the most intense of the whole year.)


End of Day
 
sunset -
nuclear explosion
in the west
 
sky
ablaze in
red, purple, blue
 
blood-orange
ball slips
behind the mountain
 
firestorm
subsides, wavelengths
disappear in shadow
 
the world ends
till tomorrow morning
 


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