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 |
Why embellish love? No flowery declarations increase my devotion. All I am is yours. 5/8/6/5 24 Syllables Prompt: embellish |
weathered arms and bare-knuckled fingers that trembled at winter’s breath now burgeon in spring’s renewal 24 syllables 3/6/7/8 Prompt: burgeon |
Though heedless while alive, Of those with whom you strive, When reckoning arrives, With their pain will you writhe. 24 syllables 6/6/6/6 Prompt: writhe |
Agony as pressure mounts. Panting through pain, until the crowning. My newborn cries, Euphoria 24 Syllable Poetry Prompt: Euphoria 3/4/4/5/4/4 |
A legion slain yet one remains. Ashamed, the sorrowful solivagant returns alive to Rome. 24 Syllables Prompt: solivagant 4/4/3/7/6 |
Her suitor penned Millicent, poems melliloquent. But she tossed them, and thought them grandiloquent. 24 Syllable Poetry Prompt: melliloquent 3/4/6/4/3/4 |