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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).
October 23, 2023 at 4:17pm
October 23, 2023 at 4:17pm
#1057940
A Jitty Ditty

Alley oop, alley way,
O’Malley held a rally down the alley one day,
Back street, crack street, frack street meet,
City jitty*, pretty gritty, Walter Mitty play,
Pity party, ditty hearty, arty farty way,
Smarty panted, Artie ranted, Marty kept the beat,
Sweet Selena you shoulda seen her,
Oh, the dreamer, none serener,
Dance diviner, nothing finer,
From the barrow sends the arrow, sparrow flies away,
Spies the evening fraught with meaning,
Leaning, keening, cleaning, screening,
though the scheming’s so demeaning,
Still the morn shall make it pay.



Line count: 14
Rhymed aabaabcccaddda
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 13 2023
Prompt: Alley.
Note: *Jitty is colloquial English in some regions, defined as the narrow passage between rows of terraced houses.

October 16, 2023 at 7:58am
October 16, 2023 at 7:58am
#1057485
A Trinket a Tanka

Tanka very much,
no paddle for my canoe
and I up this creek,
promptless once again to drift.
So I thankee very much.



Line count: 5
Form: Tanka (5 lines, syllables 5, 7, 5, 7, 7)
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 12 2023
Prompt: Tanka.

October 11, 2023 at 3:29pm
October 11, 2023 at 3:29pm
#1057196
How Now, Aldous Huxley?

The doors of perception
heaven and hell
uncertain reception
doom clock and bell
knock once and enter
wait on the call
saint or repenter
the entrance for all
no temporary hiatus
dependant on chance
nor payment for status
the end of the dance.



Line count: 12
Rhymed abab
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 11 2023
Prompt: Picture of ornately decorated doors.

October 5, 2023 at 5:02am
October 5, 2023 at 5:02am
#1056783
Okay, Faith

Yes, I have faith but I’m not about to boast,
it’s ‘tween me and God without need to post;
if you ask if I believe, I’ll tell you whatever,
and after not care if you berate me forever;
I’ll even attempt to explain how I got here,
when it comes to the truth I don’t have any fear,
but the matter of faith is a very diff’rent beast,
and no business of yours, no, not in the least;
it may be a mustard seed, could be a mountain,
it’s not easy to do, to measure a fountain,
although I can say that it’s lasted this long,
to guess at the future would only be wrong.



Line count: 12
Rhyming couplets
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 10 2023
Prompt: Faith.



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