🎶🎨NaPoWriMo – 30 poems in 30 days – April 2025 – No. 10🎨🎶

#NaPoWriMo #2025

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.

Happy writing!

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Spellchecks, Averse, Nigerian Princes and Foreign Lotharios.

The words I have to stop and think
how to spell are words like humour,
colour, and centre. As opposed to
their American cousins, humor, 
color and center. Not that they sound
any different, but I am British and my
English came before the American 
version. I have to remember to change
the spellcheck to UK English as
opposed to US, it is an annoyance.

Averse is a word that confuses the poet in me. Scams come from all countries, those Nigerian Princes, with money they
want to put in your bank account.
Foreign lotharios who want to be
your FaceBook/Meta friend and then
they pester you for your money.
They should remember this edict, 
"To never scam from the jungle;  
cheetahs are always spotted!"

©🦊VixenOfVerse,  2025