So there was a prompt from Bjorn at dVerse Poets earlier this week and it was this, Meet the bar positively through negation (though I did miss the window of submission to this one … I am often late to the party on a lot of these but still a prompt).
Now, I’m sure, I didn’t really meet the ask of this one and the “negation” thought, or maybe I did (that’s probably a part of everything I write without even thinking about it) but it did talk of cliche and maybe using negation to try and sidestep and I just got stuck.
Cliché Or Not To Cliché, That Is … The Cliche?
Is it cliché to talk of cliché as if it weren’t cliché
instead
original, unique, one minded
new
descriptions freshly took
of former looks
inscriptions on old stone tablets I mined myself
or did I
with new hooks as if in song
surely no tuneful influence except …
and chipped into fashion with old used worn stone tools
fashioned a way
of white picket fences and lights of my life
to paths less traveled away
from fools
you think
from cliché
.
Is it cliché to try not be cliché?
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