Poetry Challenge #142-You Can Say That Again...

“Play it again, Sam!”

Today is National Repeat Day! (What? Care to repeat that?) Today is National Repeat Day. As if we need an excuse, it’s a day set aside for folks to “seek out activities and experiences” to do over again. Repeating a root canal or Hurricane Katrina are not suggested for this day.

Celebrate by repeating some of the tasks of the day.  Wash the dishes twice.  Make the same meal for lunch as you do for supper. Watch Groundhog Day twice.

Send duplicate text messages. Or? As the saying goes “If it’s worth doing once; it’s worth doing again,” or if you’d prefer Bogie: “Play it again, Sam!” (Even though, in Casablanca, he never actually said that.)

Poetry Challenge #142

You Can Say That Again! . . . “That”

Repetition can be used in poetry in many ways. You can repeat a sound like a long o sound or an l or t sound.

You can repeat a word several times in the poem like the word “bells” in a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

You can repeat a phrase or a whole line. Or you can repeat a verse like the refrain in a song.

Choose a way to repeat from the list above and write a poem that uses some repetition.

Set your timer for 7 minutes

Start writing!

Don’t think about it too much; just do it!

just do it! just do it! just do it! just do it! just do it!

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge MORE THAN 1500 days ago! (without a miss!!!) We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.

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