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lil  ·  4329 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today's Writing Prompt: Where We Hide

I keep coming back to your startling poem wondering what "it" is:

    It hides in what is hidden to mask its own hiding and in the sunlight of epiphany it shines brightly and slips away before the spots can clear our eyes
I've had that sunlight of epiphany and know how it dazzles -- about as brightly as
    The long snake of firecrackers, exploding as doubt.

both of these images shed light on "it"...but the light is blinding. Could you possibly add a title which gives "it" away? Would "The Truth" be a possible title?





humanodon  ·  4329 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks for reading. I always have trouble with titles, but I am thinking about it. I don't know if it is The Truth though, or if it's really a kind of . . . suspicion (at the other end of the scale from paranoia) that there's something else, that there's something more to whatever Truth it is that can be found. I'm not sure what 'it' is at the moment, but I'm chewing on it. If I get a title as I re-work it, I'll post the title here.

lil  ·  4329 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    If I get a title as I re-work it, I'll post the title here.
Please do. I'm glad to hear that you're not 100% sure what "it" is... probably because "it" whatever it is, is hiding and won't let us see. I'll have to post my hiding poem -- but it's hiding from me... for the moment.