Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem about a very large thing. It could be a mountain or a blue whale or a skyscraper or a planet or the various contenders for the honor of being the Biggest Ball of Twine. Whatever giant thing you choose, I hope this chance to versify in praise of the huge gets your poetic engines humming.
NaPoWriMo
Red sand expands For miles Below a saffron sun Footprints and car tracks Disappear in a flurry We are the mirage the desert seeks with Wide hope Dizzy with awe The brain is struck by limitlessness nothingness The heat engulfs with serpentine yearning Like wind Or ghosts
melancholic galaxies 