Challenge
Persona Monologues
Write a poetic monologue based on your poetry persona. It can be the real you or the “poetry you.” Got this idea while running and listening to Eminem’s “My Name Is.” Here’s mine:
https://www.theprose.com/post/770244/the-flame-lords-monologue
Soul
What can I say?
My heart is prone to stupid heroics.
With a brush full of emotional bullshit,
I try to paint over the morose with beautiful words.
I have made an art form out of overestimating my significance in others’ lives.
I make time for the people that matter to me
and get so damn hurt when they don’t reciprocate.
Every single time.
And I never learn.
I “paint” words with my pain.
I hope no one sees through it.
Stubborn. Oversensitive. Unrealistic. Loser.
What can I say?
This is me.
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