Thursday, April 02, 2015

April Poem Challenge #2 - ail

Today's challenge began the same - brainstorming words:    ail/ale, bail/bale, fail, gale, tail/tale, hail/hale, jail, kale, mail/male, nail, pail/pale, rail, sale/sail, whale/wail, entail

Then, I realized that many of today's words are homophones.  (Homophone practice here.)

My first poem:  (again not a rhyming couplet)
Listen to my tale
about why I have no bail
to get out of jail.

My second poem:
Did you see the whale
At the seashore sale?

My third poem: (trying to make the couplet the same length led to adding "juicier" words)
The adventurous ant set sail
Across the ocean water pail.

P.S.  I am reading Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook by Mary Amato.  I love how the main character records his thoughts in his notebook.  It also has poetry embedded throughout - great coincidence for poetry month!

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