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Rated: 13+ · Book · Cultural · #2299350
Poems for years 4 and 5 of the Promptly Poetry Challenge.
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#1075709 added August 25, 2024 at 4:37pm
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Day
Day

As the day unfolds,
an unravelling bud in the morning light
and the diamond dew sparks the spider’s web,
the world turns to meet the risen sun
and the summer smiles supreme.

There, ‘neath the laden branch,
leafy, dark and shadowed,
where the night hides cool in the soil,
the ants go feverish in their task,
secret manoeuvres underground.

Out on the lawn where the heat settles,
heavy and baking the desiccated grass,
and time holding its breath
while the noon rides high overhead,
so spends the day in sloth.

And evening draws on reluctant,
loth to release its hold on the world,
stealing the hour with fading light
far into the hush of tomorrow,
and thus unfolds the day.


Line count: 20
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 2 2024
Prompt: As the day unfolds.
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