xenopus swims through the adjacent stream
xeruses dash from shadow to shrub between
xiphoid-like leaves down to the salty shore where
xebecs lower their sails docking in a seeming
xerox of paradise tucked away like a
NaPoWriMo continues!
For in depth definitions (some with pictures) click on the links in the poem.
Quick definitions as follows:
Xyst - a walk with trees
Xylocarp - a woody fruit like the coconut
Xenopus - African clawed frog
Xerus - African ground squirrel
Xiphoid - Sword like
Xebecs - A Mediterranean ship with three masts
Xenolith - A rock inside an igneous rock
The Pleiades poem is a seven line poem where the title and first word of each line all begin with the same letter.
The Pleiades were seven sisters who fled from Orion and eventually became a constellation, so there is one line for each sister. It crossed my mind to wonder how hard it would be to write a Pleiades beginning with X... so I learned a lot of new X words today!
The Pleiades can also be written with just six syllables because only six of the stars can be seen with the naked eye. However, I figured going all X's would be hard enough without restricting the syllables.
