2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 25
Write a poem every day of April with the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a homonym poem.
For today's prompt, write a homonym poem. A homonym is either (or both) a homograph (word spelled the same with different meanings and possibly different pronunciations) or a homophone (word that is pronounced the same but has different spellings).
Here are some examples of homophones and homographs to get you started:
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at a Homonym Poem:
"Did You Hear Something Over Here?"
If you hear a noise at the top of the stairs,
checking it out should not be your only goal.
There may be a good reason you should beware.
A monster or ghost could be hiding up there
ready to grab you before eating your soul.
If you hear a noise at the top of the stairs,
it might be better for you if you declare,
"I'm not a tasty treat like some dinner roll."
There may be a good reason you should beware
when ghouls and goblins are lurking everywhere
hoping to fulfill a real devilish role.
If you hear a noise at the top of the stairs,
don't let yourself recede into vacant stares
as if vanishing deep within a black hole.
There may be a good reason you should beware
the loud things that cause you to suddenly care
about the attention a random sound stole.
If you hear a noise at the top of the stairs,
there may be a good reason you should beware.
(Note on form: I tried out the villanelle this time around, but you can find plenty of poetic forms to play with here.)
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
