04/09/25 - Day 9 of 30
NaPoWriMo.net Article
NaPoWriMo Prompt
And here’s our optional prompt for the day. Like music, poetry offers us a way to play with and experience sound. This can be through meter, rhyme, varying line lengths, assonance, alliteration, and other techniques that call attention not just to the meaning of words, but the way they echo and resonate against each other. For a look at some of these sound devices in action, read Robert Hillyer’s poem, Fog. It uses both rhyme and uneven line lengths to create a slow, off-kilter rhythm that heightens the poem’s overall ominousness. Today we’d like to challenge you to try writing a poem of your own that uses rhyme, but without adhering to specific line lengths. For extra credit, reference a very specific sound, like the buoy in Hillyer’s poem.
My Poem
Pelicanosaurus Vex
Pelicans aloft
A squadron
Of long beaks and soft
Feathers in flight.
There a wingman breaks to waft
And pitches suddenly downward,
Rigging dropped from a loft.
He's spied a redfish begging to be offed.
Their clacking beaks
With reptilian eyes crossed
Conjure airborne dinosaurs
Temporally tossed.
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