\"Writing.Com
*Magnify*
    April    
SMTWTFS
 
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
12
13
14
15
16
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
26
27
28
29
30
Archive RSS
SPONSORED LINKS
Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/item_id/2299350-Promptly-4-and-5/month/4-1-2024
Image Protector
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).
April 25, 2024 at 9:18am
April 25, 2024 at 9:18am
#1069650
Sunset over a bridge and stream.


Evening

Golden glory a furnace in the sky
the sun sets in molten incandescence
its blazing liquid ore radiant in flow
across the sky aflame as burning light

the red hot land and coal dark trees
in fury’s fires ablaze with sullen wrath
while still the silent waters reflect in rose
a dream of petal paint and power in pink

here the bamboo bridge in blackened shade
breaks the bond of bank and stream
and night climbs stealthy with inky cloak
to draw its veiled hand upon the dying day.



Line count: 12
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 39 2024
Prompt: As per illustration.
April 17, 2024 at 8:24pm
April 17, 2024 at 8:24pm
#1069015
Cat

Show me your stripes
and I can see your cat
you don’t have to gripe
to communicate that.

Leatherette armchairs
temptation to them
no matter your care
they’re shredded to hem.

Though kitten will flay you
so soft and so pretty
forgiveness is true
for your darling kitty.



Line count: 12
Rhymed abab
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 38 2024
Prompt: Stripes.
April 10, 2024 at 7:43am
April 10, 2024 at 7:43am
#1068421
Faith 2

Faith takes no heed of setback
the wandering trail of life
she keeps her gaze on the target
and shuns all feelings of strife

It’s true that Hope is her sister
and dresses in similar style
but Faith cares not for appearance
and faces her fate without guile

For the journey she ever is ready
she turns not a moment away
her friends rely on her vision
and know she’ll not lead them astray.



Line count: 12
Rhyming scheme: abcb
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 37 2024
Prompt: Faith.

April 1, 2024 at 8:15pm
April 1, 2024 at 8:15pm
#1067346
What’s in a Name?

Zanzibar!
Shangri-La!
Coromandel, Samarkand and Ultima Thule,
the names drip like honey, sparkled with bright jewels
from our lips, enchanted sounds that weave such magic
in stories bold and romances high and tragic.
Mandalay
and Cathay!



Line count: 8
Form: Tigerjade; syllables 3,3,12,12,12,12,3,3; rhymed aabbccdd
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 36, 2024
Prompt: None.



© Copyright 2024 Beholden (UN: beholden at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Beholden has granted Writing.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.

Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/item_id/2299350-Promptly-4-and-5/month/4-1-2024