NaPoWriMo 2024 day 24

Pen on top of an open book

Day 24 of NaPoWriMo.

My poem

A riddle.

Riddle

I wear a shining, scorching crown
That causes me to sweat
And if I sweat just long enough
I shrink down to my death

Answer: Candle

Featured poem

A ballad by Emily Dickinson.

Beclouded

by Emily Dickinson

The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.

A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.

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