NaPoWriMo Day 26

Good Morning and Welcome to day twenty-six of NaPoWriMo.

 

Veronica

 

                                                     Voices cry out in sorrow
                                                     Everyone will miss her dearly
                                                     Reminisce her life tomorrow 
                                                     Orations cried out in sorrow
                                                     No one can hide their woe
                                                     Incapable of speaking clearly
                                                     Crying out in sorrow
                                                    All will miss her dearly

 

 

Our prompt for today, however, is not likely to induce smiles. For today, I challenge you to write an elegy. Classically, an elegy is a poem written in response to someone’s death, a poem of mourning and remembrance. Your elegy can be about a specific person, a group of people, a pet, a plant, even an idea. Or, like Anne Sexton, you could try your hand at an anti-elegy.

 

As you can see, I had a little fun with this and wrote an acrostic/triolet elegy for myself.