NaPoWriMo PROMPT: (using a prompt from 2017) Write a poem that recounts a creation myth. It doesn’t have to be an existing creation myth, or even recount how all of creation came to be. It could be, for example, your own take on the creation of ball-point pens, or the discovery of knitting. Your myth can be as big or small as you would like, as serious or silly as you make it.
They played along the river’s edge
Because they feared the water deep.
All hippos swam in muddy ponds
Except the two they called the freaks.
Those two dove and swam so much
Their nose holes moved up on their heads.
They lost the legs they had in back
And grew flappy tails instead.
They swam so far they found the sea.
Mysticetes
Many, many years ago
When things were not like they are now
The hippos lived a lovely life
Eating grapes and pomelos.
Many, many years ago
When things were not like they are now
The hippos lived a lovely life
Eating grapes and pomelos.
They played along the river’s edge
Because they feared the water deep.
All hippos swam in muddy ponds
Except the two they called the freaks.
Those two dove and swam so much
Their nose holes moved up on their heads.
They lost the legs they had in back
And grew flappy tails instead.
They swam so far they found the sea.
They learned to sing a lonely wail.
And over time they grew so big
That both of them became a whale.
And over time they grew so big
That both of them became a whale.
1 comment:
Delightful! Thank you.
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