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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).
November 17, 2024 at 8:50am
November 17, 2024 at 8:50am
#1080081
Endgame

The first and last, alpha and omega,
so life plays out its petty dance,
right to the end when breath comes short
and every nuance snatched at,
only to slip through the grasp,
aged fingers awkward in their haste
to hold the final moments hesitant,
the sight now dim in fading light.

Thus poor creature huddled in vain,
resigned through long acquaintance,
yet unable to loose its grip in final sigh,
would say quite bold, “Yes, now would be
the moment, smoothed by constant touch
to familiarity and rest.”

And then the life force, instinct, will,
turns in an instant ferocious still,
no, just one more breath, a second glance,
before I go - it’s not too much to ask.



Line count: 18
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 14 2024
Prompt: Use at least three of the following words in your poem: stunning, nuance, colorful, last, first.
November 9, 2024 at 4:44pm
November 9, 2024 at 4:44pm
#1079731
Jackson Pollock

Primary colour dribbled from the lip
the tin tipped and dripping
red yellow green blue struggling
their random patterns painted pooling
plastic paths pirouetting pastiche
of explosive performance entwined
one within the other and a thousand more
wriggling in random writhing riot
confused and silent cacophony
and chaos of accident intended.

This mass of shape and line
coloured fresh and free
is wild and even beautiful
a design of energy and verve
but art gagged and voiceless
wall hanging without a cause.



Line count: 16
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 13 2024
Prompt: Quiet chaos.


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