Welcome to NaPoWriMo 2024. I hope you’re all ready for a busy month of writing poetry. Remember, don’t strive for perfection and the prompts are only a starting point. You can go wherever your imagination takes you.
For your first prompt I’d like you to look at the news. This is usually depressing at best and can be terrifying. I’d like you to find a good news story and use this to write a poem in any style you wish.
My poem was based on this story, about a species of golden mole that was believed to be extinct until it was found last year in South Africa.
Good luck with your poems and have a great NaPoWriMo!
Golden mole
They never told me I was missing
and, though I know nothing of fish,
they found me swimming with the
stealth of a dolphin in a balaclava
through an ocean of dunes –
waves of sand undulating over centuries.
They tell me my coat is the colour
of the sun I’ve never seen, in the hour
before it melts over the edge of the world.
But when I dive back into the earth,
I might never return.
There could be others like me,
our unmarked paths waiting
to become entwined
as we live on burrowed time.
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