Our writing group writes to a prompt for each meeting. A recent one was the challenge to write an anaphora poem. First I had to look up what an anaphora poem was. Anaphora is a literary device to emphasize meaning or create rhythm in poetry or prose by using a word or phrase repetitively.
It is exemplified by Charles Dickens’ – It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity… giving a rhythm to the opening paragraph of Tale of Two Cities.
Or Martin Luther King’s – I have a dream…. repeated nine times in his speech delivering his dream of hope for our nation.
Or William Blake’s poem London: In every cry of every Man, In every infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban,…
This is my attempt at anaphora.
And I Fly
I fly in dreams
Across landscapes of imagination
Reaching for adventure.
And I fly
I fly across time
Unbounded through memory
Yesterdays as fresh as flowers.
And I fly
I fly with my mind
Examining my interior world
Life an unending mystery.
And I fly
I fly with words
Extending my thoughts
Through story and poem.
And I fly
wonkagranny 
Your poem is beautiful!
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Your poem spurred me. I love the line, ‘Yesterdays as fresh as flowers’.
These types of poems remind me of our poetry writings over the years.
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What can I say? For someone who had to look up what an anaphora poem is, you wrote one that flew out of the park. (I know Ken didn’t like balls he pitched going out of the park, but, in your case, I know he cheers.
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