The prompt:
Today’s (optional) prompt is a fun one. Find a factual article about an animal. A Wikipedia article or something from National Geographic would do nicely – just make sure it repeats the name of the animal a lot. Now, go back through the text and replace the name of the animal with something else – it could be something very abstract, like “sadness” or “my heart,” or something more concrete, like “the streetlight outside my window that won’t stop blinking.” You should wind up with some very funny and even touching combinations, which you can then rearrange and edit into a poem.
To be honest I struggled following the meaning of today's prompt, so I've gone a little off prompt, although I have taken on the animal theme. Since last Autumn we've been seeing squirrels go back and forth through our garden, especially after the girls left some acorns out for them, plus it seems that one of our neighbours has been leaving out peanuts too. All three kids love to see the squirrels and watch them as they dart about. So my poem has been inspired by them:
Hurry-pause along the fence
Paws full of acorn or nut
Taking a nibble
As tail flits and shakes
Signalling
Flutter-flutter
Wiggle
Squirrel semaphore
A dart now
Arrowing down to the water table
Drinking quick
And up again with a nod
A twitch
Then off
Up and over the shed roof
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