Thursday, April 10, 2025

NaPoWriMo - April, 2025 - Poem: Cave Dwellers

NaPoWriMo 2025

04/10/25 - Day 10 of 30

NaPoWriMo.net Article


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


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!


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