An Anaphora Poem

 

 

Week 2 of the Our Lost Jungle Poetry Form Challenge gave us a chance to repeat ourselves. Week 2 of the Our Lost Jungle Poetry Form Challenge gave us a chance to repeat ourselves.

 

We were challenged to write an anaphora poem. Anaphora is the "repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two successive verses, clauses or sentences."

 

Khara House, our challenge maven, threw a fastball by us when, in the first paragraph of her blog post, she prompted us to think of a word and write it down. You guessed it! This ended up being the word we had to repeat in our poem.

 

My word is yes. (Note: I'm sure I had just started drinking my first cup of coffee when I did this exercise.) And, yes, my initial reaction was horror; but after I stopped groaning and took my head out of my hands, I decided to give my little word a chance.

 

Do you know that yes may be an adverb or a noun? That it's plural is yeses and that there are multiple definitions listed under it in the dictionary?

 

So, here is my poem with yes as the anaphoree (Yes, I made that up.):

 

That's an Affirmative

 

Yes?

Yes, it is.

Yes, I did.

Yes, that's right.

Yes, I am.

Yes, I can.

Yes!

 



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