Poetry Challenge #142-Can You Repeat That?

“Play it again, Sam!”

Today is not National Repeat Day! (What? Care to repeat that?) Today is not National Repeat Day. I repeat it is not the “day [officially] set aside for folks to ‘seek out activities and experiences’ to do over again. (Not on the list: Root canals and Nor’esters...)

Regardless of the day, this challenge begged to be repeated…and so we are. If you happened to have tried it when we originally shared it—over 4 years ago—then it’s been long enough.

Let’s do it . . . again!

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

Can You Repeat That? . . . “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 about 3500 days ago. We like it so much, we couldn’t resist 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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