In the run-up to Halloween something scary...
My poetry course
homework this week is to write a anaphora. I wrote one. Today I decided to
write another one on a totally different subject.
I’ve been watching a lot of NCSI and NSCI LA this
week – a conveyor belt of murder, mayhem and crime. So this one is about that,
about a stalker. Watching it, most of the stalkers are male, but then a well-known
grit-your-teeth-scene film with a female stalker is Misery. I guess that’s
what watching TV with a fan of NCSI, Silent Witness and all those series
does to your inspiration!!! Serial killers next!
Anaphora in poetry is the repetition of a
word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences,
or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect.
Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’
speech is a famous and effective example of anaphora.
He won’t stop
He won’t
stop until you’re dead,
He won’t
stop messing with your head,
He won’t
stop stalking your life,
He won’t
stop causing you strife,
He won’t
stop reading your emails,
He won’t
stop listening to your calls,
He won’t
stop alienating you,
He won’t
stop slandering you,
He won’t
stop enjoying his libel,
He won’t
stop turning the tables,
He won’t
stop wrecking your career,
He won’t
stop watching your fear.
He won’t
stop manipulating the crowd
Until he
knows you’re no longer around.
Copyright
Vickie Johnstone, October 25, 2020
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