NaPoWriMo 2025
04/10/25 - Day 10 of 30
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NaPoWriMo Prompt
Now for our daily prompt (optional, as always). Yesterday, we looked at a poem that used sound in a very particular way, to create a slow and mysterious feeling. Mark Bibbins’ poem, “At the End of the Endless Decade,” uses sound very differently, with less eerieness and more wordplay. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that, like Bibbins’, uses alliteration and punning. See if you can’t work in references to at least one word you have trouble spelling, and one that you’ve never quite been able to perfectly remember the meaning of.
My Poem
Cave Dwellers
(Original Poem)
Clunking spelunkers descend
Through cooling guano they wend.
From the limestone vault depend
Armies of bats, chittering rats,
Rabid cave denizens.
Horned millipedes meander
Thirsty mosquitoes muster
Harried scorpions posture.
Critters and creatures and ghastly creepers
Patient Black Widows tether and spin.
Indefatigable fauna
Fecundity found far underground
Undeniably NOT
My cup of tea!
Fear Full
(Rewritten In Free Verse Form With “Emotional Show-Don’t-Tell”)
Exploring a cave would crush my crushing fear of creepy crawlies.
I’d free myself from frantic fits of itching panic
With exposure to all those scaly, hairy legs and beady eyes at once.
Can you imagine?
Who’d see vaulted bats as flying, squeaking, sonar-seeking eco-buddies?
Flea-furred, blood-sucking vermin, ready to strike like Dracula at night.
Are scorpions beneficent because they control insect populations?
Angular alien designs waving tail stingers like black flags of death.
How can they let millipedes meander across bare skin on a million tiny tip-toes?
Unholy armored earthworms with peril dripping from poisonous spiky termini.
And why are rats kept as pets like cuddly, miniature pink-eyed cats?
Overrunning oily fur-bags, fangs crowding in, like injectors of rabies and plague.
Why don’t you go on ahead?
I’m trapped by indecision.
Is speluncaphobia worse than entomophobia?
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