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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).
April 13, 2025 at 10:37am
April 13, 2025 at 10:37am
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Darkness at Noon

“La Dolce Vita” proclaims the sign
a voice in protest against the lowering sky
the gathering clouds of ill intent
and the steps leading downward
ever downward into gloom and deep despair
far indeed from any sweetness of life
the narrow alley squeezed between
buildings grown too tall for their ambitions
and painted in colours once bright
but now dark with age and wear
so rarely sunlit in these latter days
as though life itself drains slowly
fitfully down the grate in the foreground.

The sign creaks in the breeze.



Line count: 14
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 35
Prompt: As per illustration.



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