2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 25
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:
20 Homophones Examples for Writers.30 Homographs Examples for Writers.
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.)