Only after I wrote my Day 14 poem did I realize I’d missed out on days 12 and 13!  Here is my Day 13 poem, in arrears, “Playing With Rhyme.”:

Light Verse

Bitter night winds blow and flitter,
singing songs that hum along
with kerosene lamps that careen.
spilling light that fills the scene,
then joins the sunset’s streaming jet
of fire across a furry sky
of fleet clouds that hurry hurry
pursing lips to blow out  light
and give a welcoming respite
to  day’s unrelenting bright
as night contains it in its purse
and stashes it behind a wall
through which light cannot shine at all.

Then shoes of night step softly through
every midnight somber hue,
tracking light, securely trussed
into tight balls, its loud rays shushed
into small whispers, star after star,
sending it back from afar,
on footsteps constant through the night.
that regather in the morning light.

The optional prompt for the day asked us to play with rhyme. We were to 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.

Here is my word list, to prompt. Only one— “thrust,” is no longer in the poem, replaced with  “tracking,” —a word more in keeping with the poem.

bitter  sitter twitter flitter hitter jitter litter sitter titter
song bong dong gong Kong long pong wrong tong along
kerosene obscene bean scene gene Jean keen keene lean mean peen queen seen teen wean machine
sunset bet debt fret get het jet let met net pet Aquanet set Tet vet wet
furry curry furry hurry jury surrey
purse curse hearse nurse terse verse rehearse
wall  ball call doll fall gall hall loll mall  mol  wall tall
shoe blue clue due few goo hew Jew kew loo moo new anew pew queue rue sue two to too view whew  yew zoo
thrust bust cussed dust gust lust must rust shushed trussed trust
whisper Whisker  bicker spiller thinker winter finger per were blur spur whirr