April 5. Today’s Napowrimo 2026 task is to write a poem of our own form choice that explores disliking something – particularly something utterly innocuous, like clover. We should try to be OTT and silly and overdramatic.
The inspiration for this prompt focussed on hate, so I felt obliged to colour in that emotion.
Do you spend your time loathing the lip-stinging lime,
Or resenting the emerald green?
Should you hate a cello that’s been waxed yellow,
Simply because of its sheen?
Would you show dismay at a Welsh slate grey
Squirrel that nibbled your nuts?
Might your brow furrow and frown at mustard brown,
Begging your mouth to tut-tut?
Could your eyes despise the orange tan
Of a much-dimpled tangerine?
Say, what would you do, with a blue kangaroo,
Other than think it obscene?
When green apples turn red in their cider beds,
Do you blush with primary rage?
Would you be happy with wan, rather than luscious cyan,
For your sky or my ink on this page?
If they served you polenta stained with magenta,
Might you vex and scream “send it back”?
For that I won’t wait, for you save all your hate,
For anything that’s coloured black.
Missives & Musings 
The rhyme patterns in this made it such a delightful read and with all the colors it’s so vivid! ❤
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