🎶🎨NaPoWriMo – 30 poems in 30 days – April 2025 – No. 9🎨🎶

#NaPoWriMo #2025

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.

Happy (or at least atmospheric) writing!

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Bloodshed

We are not alone.
Energetic spirits exist in the universe.
Good, and evil, flesh and bone,
Healing spell and hexing curse.

Fight it out.
Silent shout.

Chaos charges the energetic space.
We manipulate energy,
With intention, in a sacred place,
We create synergy.

Evil be banished,
Ill intent vanished.

We are one with the mother Goddess,
And our father God.
We are humankind.

We seek to impress,
We give a knowing nod,
To those who are deaf or blind.

Yet, we fight,
Darken the light.

By waging wars, bloodshed, and grief.
We cling to our tribes,
Without giving any rest or relief.
We are an army who divides.

Seeking peace,
At a cricket crease.

We drink tea in a British way.
The siren song that kills,
Listening to the sway
Of the dead in the heath and hills

©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2025