Poetry Superhighway April 2023 Poems

What is a Jake? PSH

What is a Jake? PSH

What am I?
Who am I?
Where am I?

Am I real?
Or a bot?
I am Jake
I am not a fake
I am not a mistake

I am not a flake
I am not a rake
I am not a snake

I am who I am
The one
And only Jake
And everything’s Jake.

This poetry writing prompt was submitted by Angele Ellis:
What’s in a name?
This prompt is effective as a writing group icebreaker/community builder, as well as an individual exercise for writers of both poetry and prose.
Using your first name as inspiration, reflect on any or all of the following questions in your piece.
Why were you given this name?
What is its meaning?
How has having this name affected your life?
What would you have named yourself?
If you write a poem from this prompt, post it as a comment underneath the prompt in the poetry super highway Facebook group.
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