Come close my dear,
and I will tell
the tale of a dear deer
(with a tiny tail)
who sadly didn’t fare too well.
He died at the fair
when he decided to try
a new fur dye he’d seen.
Flowing around the unique horn
of a unicorn was
a rainbow mane,
when along came
a bare-faced bear
who had an aloof air,
(perhaps of a heir bear).
He added too much dye
and I declare!
It burnt the dear deer’s eyes!
You see, the no-eyed deer
he could not see
so ran and ran
and damn,
he ran into a dam,
that broke,
he choked.
For four hours he tried
to survive….
When he finally passed
we sang for hours and hours
hymns for him
that dyed dear deer
of ours who died.
Day 14 of Napowrimo saw a challenge that I had to read up on to understand;
write a poem that incorporates homophones, homographs, and homonyms, or otherwise makes productive use of English’s ridiculously complex spelling rules and opportunities for mis-hearings and mis-readings.
I hope I have achieved the objective?
