Day 14  of my NaPoWriMo Challenge 

Our prompt for the day (optional as always) takes its inspiration from Mali’s poem. As he shows us, there many words in English that sound like other words. For that matter, English has lots of words that look like other words, Today, we’d like to challenge you to 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. 

To Higher Climes

This cliff path is a rocky one

uneven, and full of rocks
patches of soil to soil my clothes
as I stumble along my way
loose stones mock my journey
causing me to lose my footing

I need to put the brakes on this

before I break my ruddy neck

I`m not getting any younger
so I pause to catch my breath
I spy some soft down feathers
down amongst the wild gorse
sadly the weather is changing

need to decide whether I go on!

up here I can hear the sea

and see the sea gull soaring

should I reach the dizzy heights

or head back down to the headland?

maybe I`ll sit a while and ponder

the mysteries of these higher climes

(c)  Lissies Poems 2018