The Poetry Stash: 4November2024

Lying Down by Robert Desnos

Today’s poem is “Lying Down” by Robert Desnos, translated from the French by Bill Zavatsky from the anthology The Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry, edited by Paul Auster. The book is available for purchase here.

Lying Down by Robert Desnos

Prompts:

1.	Begin with “simple and strange”
2.	Begin with “uselessness”
3.	Draft a poem that explores directions: right, left, vertical, parallel, etc.
4.	Draft a poem while lying down, standing, sitting or draft one while outside or inside a room or a car. 

5. Photo by Johannes Plenio via pexels.com. Use the image as a writing prompt.

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