I am home — home — in a word
home — in my name — home in
your word — home — I hear
near — here home — an inn
with a breakfast — in — bed
a place — plates — for two
a piece — fragments — shifting to
individuals — apart — a part of
poetics — phonetics — parts
broken focus — peace — bokeh
books — possessed — possessions
positions — possibilities — shelved
in my self — esteem — seen
me, myself — and you — hear
together — a song — a psalm
in my palm — along — hold mine
diamonds — in your I’s — reflecting
perfection — in us — a word
held — read — illuminated in red
a rubric — re-read — and said
when — now — are won a metal
melded — welded — wedded
of gold — hold — till we are old
words told — two — home
in a name — oui too — are we.

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Submitted as part of “National/Global Poetry Writing Month” (#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo).
Today’s prompt:  Today, we’d like to challenge you to 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.

30 Poems in 30 Days

All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck