How Eclipses Came to Be

Once upon a breeze-swept eve
the sun confided to the moon,
“I think we should collide!” Then 
Moon relied, “I’m listening…” all the 
while heartbeat a-twitter, feeling 
quite undone. “I’m weary of day,”
Sun moaned, “the flowers, trees, 
birds, humans, bees are fickle 
souls who rush to shade, it’s quite
bizarre, when i am bright, preferring
night, even the stars glisten, when 
you’re around, they swoon!” 
“I think,” said Moon, who rose 
full-faced for this occasion, reasoning 
with a tidal dose of powerful persuasion,
“it’s just a rest you need, meet me at high
eclipse, new moon, you’ll see, the world
will stop to gaze at you, there’s nothing
that you need to do, just shine your
brightest, be yourself, just be, I’ll do what  
I do best, trust me old sun, you’ll see.”
And so it was, and so it is how moon
stepped in to save the day, the sun 
forgot his weary ways. The earth stood 
still, moon flipped the switch. Now seasons 
flow without a hitch, night dawns to day, days dusk to night, all because moon
set things a-right, crisis averted, now all is well.
We saw it with our own two eyes and lived to tell. 

~kat

I’m afraid I ran out of time and daylight yesterday and found myself nodding late-night unable to conjure a single thought, but sleep…need sleep. But undaunted I rose this morning up to the task, to meet Day 13’s challenge and pen a proper, on task poem. Sleeping on it was just what I needed!

NaPoWriMo 2024 – Day 13 Challenge: Our optional prompt for the day asks you to play with rhyme. Start by creating a “word bank” of ten simple words. They should only have one or two syllables apiece. Five should correspond to each of the five senses (i.e., one word that is a thing you can see, one word that is a type of sound, one word that is a thing you can taste, etc). Three more should be concrete nouns of whatever character you choose (i.e., “bridge,” “sun,” “airplane,” “cat”), and the last two should be verbs. Now, come up with rhymes for each of your ten words. (If you’re having trouble coming up with rhymes, the wonderful Rhymezone is at your service). Use your expanded word-bank, with rhymes, as the seeds for your poem. Your effort doesn’t actually have to rhyme in the sense of having each line end with a rhymed word, but try to use as much soundplay in your poem as possible.

Wordbank

• Breeze trees

• light quite

• bitter twitter

• heartbeat meet

• flowers hours

• Sun undone

• Moon Swoon

• Stars bizarre

• collide confided

• Listen glisten