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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).
July 21, 2024 at 6:29am
July 21, 2024 at 6:29am
#1074210
This is the last of the poems for the fourth year of Promptly Poetry Challenge 2023/2024. All subsequent poems are for 2024/2025.

Expanse

Oh Kansas horizon so flat like a pancake or ruler or hedgehog though the last is somewhat obscure.


Line count: 1
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge 2024, Week 52
Prompt: Shape Poetry/Concrete Poetry.
July 17, 2024 at 3:38pm
July 17, 2024 at 3:38pm
#1074080
Invalid Photo #1071952


Dandelion

Cast your fate to the wind
and ride the wayward air
in adventure blind
and expectation fair.

Cradled in the hand of fate
may your landing find
good soil in fields great
and climate kind.

But root both fast and deep
to stake determined claim
your face unto the sun must keep
new glory bright as flame.



Line count: 12
Rhymed abab
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, 07.17.24
Prompt: As per illustration.
July 13, 2024 at 8:55am
July 13, 2024 at 8:55am
#1073897
Dance is Still Movement

Random blasts of the synapses
not physical like Cocker’s
but the brain firing the body
with jerky impulse reaction
the music alive in transmission
one with the meaningless word
and David Byrne reinventing
dance as immersion in sound.

Talking Heads robotic
obfuscation as art form
they plough their ragged field
and Byrne their scarecrow
striding the otherworld
in song and dance somehow divine.



Line count: 14
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 50
Prompt: Dance.
Note: Yes, this was written as a response to Ned’s poem on Joe Cocker. When nothing has occurred to me for a week, an immediate thought on hearing her idea was a straw to be grasped. David Byrne is surely Joe Cocker after intellectual processing.


July 8, 2024 at 10:42am
July 8, 2024 at 10:42am
#1073676
Magical Madrigal

I’ve tried to make these verses best,
always at pains to pass the test,
but sometimes I’ve had no real rest
till falling back upon a jest.

Perhaps it be the word falls dumb
upon my ear so often numb,
as if my mind was steeped in rum,
for answers to the prompt don’t come.

And so in situation tragic,
I find myself in climes pelagic,
in deserts without all foragic -
it seems I’ve no ideas on magic.



Line count: 12
Rhymed aaaa bbbb cccc
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 49
Prompt: Magical.



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