#napowrimo #poetry
Today, we don’t challenge you to write all of a long, dramatic, narrative poem, but we invite you to try your hand at writing a poem that could be a section or piece of one. Include rhyme, include unlikely and dramatic scenes (maybe a poem about a bank robbery! Or an avalanche! Or Roman gladiators! Or an enormous ball held by mermaids, where there is an undercurrent (hee) of palace intrigue!) Basically, a poem with the plot of an opera (evil twins! Egyptian tombs! Star-crossed lovers! Tigers for no apparent reason!)
Happy writing!
AN UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS
The tiger swallowed Edgar whole.
Severed his head and with it stole
the melancholic poetry of Poe.
An unkindness of ravens bad beaked him so;
saying that Edgar Allan gave them
A bad name, but what say you, ahem,
you the modern reader – did you like
The Murders on the Rue Morgue? Unlike
anything before it this was the birth
of the detective novel, it was worth
his effort, he led the way for the others,
Conan Doyle and Wilkie Collins and all comers.
After a while the tiger spewed him out again,
but the ravens had gone home because of the rain.
So C. Auguste Dupin can live on the page,
solving crimes with ratiocination,
which became the rage.
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2026
•The Unkindness of ravens = the more unusual name for a group of ravens.
•C Auguste Dupin = The detective in Poe's , The Murders on the Rue Morgue.
•Ratiocination= logical deduction.
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