NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 27 prompt: Write a poem in which all the verses contain the same number of lines (couplets, triplets, quatrains, etc.) that give the reader instructions of some kind.

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Baker’s Round

Round and round the kitchen look.
Clean the mess left by the cook.

Grab the box and read ingredients.
Find each food and utensil to be used.

Every bowl, each pot, measure,
spoon and scraper, at the ready.

Cake in a box, mixing bowl and mixer,
eggs, extras chopped, ground, cut.

Oven heating as sweltered venom
into the pot as round the room we go.

Beasts breast butter from cows udder,
into the cauldron with toad tongue.

Seeds of hemp for eye of newt
nuts of wall or from a toad.

Drink the lime from the coconut
and call her in the morning.

It’s all lined up and now you know,
a cake to make, ready set go.

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