This month Women Writing for (a) Change-Bloomington poets are participating in National Poetry Writing Month. Every day we will offer up a new poem by a writer in our community. Check back after 6:00pm for the Prompt of the Day and the selected resulting poem.
Day 14 Write a poem that incorporates homophones, homographs, and homonyms, or otherwise makes productive use of English’s ridiculously complex spelling rules and opportunities for mis-hearings and mis-readings.
Day 14 – Homophones by Tracy Zollinger Turner
Stormy whether
In the late knight ours
Doesn’t feel write in January
This tail of climate change
Steels my comfort
I worry about all that is dyeing
But when I here the April storms
There is no not in my stomach
I look forward two the cent
Of May flours
They heel
My sole