NaPoWriMo 2025 - Day 1

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"...here’s our optional prompt! As with pretty much any discipline, music and art have their own vocabulary. Today, we challenge you to take inspiration from this glossary of musical terms, or this glossary of art terminology, and write a poem that uses a new-to-you word."

Sigh... Day 1 and I already messed up, prompt-wise... I chose the word that is not new-to-me. Note to self, "Read the prompt carefully from start to finish, then read it again." 

A Life in Abstraction

She said she lived her life in abstraction,

drew pleasure in exaggeration,

in the distorted way she viewed us,

squinting her eyes in appraisal.

She thought herself another Miro,

speaking Spanish to her friends.

Once at a party she tossed me out,

I'd told her Joan was a man.

That was so long ago.

A faded photo is all that's left

to remind me of her.

So warped it's hard to make her out. 

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