24 (ish) Syllable Poems

White Noise

White Noise

my spirit soars
   beyond

the static white
   briefcase

poetic
   tombstone

yearning
   to be read

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Written for the September 2022 round of The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Contest

Prompt:

1) write a poem with enjambment that stresses compound nouns
2) poem format is eight lines written in couplets. No syllable/line length requirement
3) poem must not use the phrase ‘so much depends on’
4) no punctuation or capitalization

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