For today's NaPoWriMo prompt, we were challenged to include alliteration, consonance, and assonance in our poems. I enjoy using alliteration (repetition of a consonant at the beginning of words), so my poem uses that technique a lot, but I did try to use consonance (repetition of consonant sound elsewhere in words) and assonance (repetition of vowel sounds) as well. I hope you enjoy my poem.
I do not know what to write.
Why would you wish this on me?
You being myself as I stare at the screen,
Sullen and cross, cursing myself for promising
Poetry for all of April, even if I promised myself
And no one else. Yet I yearn to do better.
To write better. Write more. For I can't succeed
If I don't even try. I need these days of poetry
To remind myself that I am a writer even if
Some days my words drown with the dirty dishes
And months melt away in the summer heat
Where not a single sentence meets pen or paper
And winter wreaks havoc on my hurting hands.
They crack and bleed burying my need to create
Until springtime thaws my thoughts and I want
To write words again, to put them to pencil.
In the month of April, poetry pours forth
From my mind until I have nothing left.
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