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.

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Give me the credit for trying 🙂

Oh my! My dress has a tear

She said, a tiny tear drop on the edge of her eye

Where are you off to? I couldn’t help but ask

seeing the pretty dress she wished to wear

Oh I was off to the fair at the creek

To hand over the cheque for the stall

when I heard the stair creak

And I went to check,

And I got stalled 

She said it all in a single breath, her fair face beet red

Can you do nothing to help but stare? 

Hello, do you know what I’m saying?

She looked at me,  in a rage.

like she’d beat me up if she could.

I felt cornered… like a prey.

No…Yes…Of-course

Pray, tell me what is the breadth  of the tear

Can we not sew it? She glared

So may be we could get you another one, I quickly blurted

I thought I had won by the look on her face

But on second thoughts,

I don’t have cash or a card. Though I do have a cheque!

Will that help?

My life seemed at stake

I could grill you like steak, she bit her teeth threateningly

I must remember to make my will, I tell myself

Talking to you is such a waste

Off she walked in a haste

shaking her tiny waist

Leaving the piece…the root of this entire story

I watched her leave, thankful for the peace

And sipping the wine, I saw the cars below

and the lights of the fair at the creek,

the high storey building across…

So much for the creak in the stair!

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