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Rated: 13+ · Book · Cultural · #2299350
Poems for years 4 and 5 of the Promptly Poetry Challenge.
A year's worth of poems, every week for 52 weeks, spanning 2023 and 2024, plus the year following, from August 2024 to August 2025.(provided I live that long, of course).
June 11, 2024 at 10:50am
June 11, 2024 at 10:50am
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Mists

Africa does not waste its time with mist,
its sunwashed plains are seldom kissed,
precipitation saved for thunderstorms
and cloudbursts being the season’s norm.

And so I found the mists of northern shores
a mystical, mythical dream from literary lore,
a secret land of silent sight constricted
by guarded peace and softest grey restricted.

Inside this insubstantial world now shrunk
with distant ocean’s breath inhaled and drunk,
I find ancestral cause for celebration
and I, in mists, a certain affirmation.



Line count: 12
Rhymed aabb
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 46
Prompt: Mist.


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