Challenging Poetry

Narrator and Poet

I put on my poet's mask,
setting aside who I am
to focus on a single emotion,
a single facet of me,
like a prism reduced to
one laser point of color,
more intense and focused
than my own life,
and more true because of it—
I am not my poem,
and the poem is better
for that distance.

April 9—Persona—write a poem in the voice of a person who is not you.