More poems for Promptly Poetry, stuffed into this book because I have reached my limit. |
Prompt: (verb) to move to action Promptly: (adverb) : very quickly or immediately Poetry: a form of writing that no one ever reads |
Garden planting plan: Begonias tuberous, tulips numerous. Will they grow? I am juberous. 5/6/5/3/5 24 Syllables Prompt: juberous: doubtful and hesitating : DUBIOUS (Merriam-Webster) |
Is this my city? This blood and calamity? No mercy, no pity, No hope for comity. 6 6 6 6 24 Syllable Poetry Prompt: Comity |
Published, at last! She assumed an air of literary cachet. Ninety-nine cents at Amazon. 24 Syllables 5 5 7 7 Prompt: cachet |
Flash of rain lashes the trees. Still the steady sun shines through, and makes diamonds of ev’ry limpid drop. 7/7/7/3 24 Syllables Prompt: limpid |
Gloomy castle, misty moor Brooding hero, ghostly lore Curled up with a Gothic romance once more… 7/7/8/2 24 Syllables Prompt: Gothic |
Soulless selfies flaunting fashion - social media influencers, lodestar for vacuous fans. 4/4/9/7 24 syllables Prompt: Lodestar |
June Cleaver apron starched stiff white, bakes trays of cookies. Paradigm of television motherhood. 24 Syllables Prompt: paradigm 3/5/5/11 |
Barefoot on the plush garden carpet, Wild violet kisses between my toes, tickle my morning. 24 Syllables 2 7 6 4 5 Prompt: violet |
dry pen grasped in trembling fingers, taps out meter on hoary, stubbled chin. what shall I write today? 24 Syllables Prompt: hoary 8 10 6 |
outside the orbiting craft, anchor line snaps - astronaut, forever adrift in atrous vacuum 24 Syllables 7 4 6 7 Prompt: atrous |