Poetry Prompt – April 24

April 24 – Write a poem that starts with one word and ends with the opposite, like truth & lies, or truth & consequences, or winter &summer. You can even make up one, like hamburger & hot dog, or book & tv.  

From the Muse Library: Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad. Farrokhzad was the most significant female Iranian poet of the twentieth century, as revolutionary as Russia’s Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva and America’s Plath and Sexton. She wrote with a sensuality and burgeoning political consciousness that pressed against the boundaries of what could be expressed by a woman in 1950s and 1960s Iran. She paid a high price for her art, shouldering the disapproval of society and her family.