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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).
May 29, 2024 at 11:03am
May 29, 2024 at 11:03am
#1071851
Time

a thousand instants gathered now
measured moments falling
the sands of time
hour glass
times pass
the future climbs
so to meet its calling
and final trump to ears endows



Line count: 8
Form: Pendulum - syllables 8, 6, 4, 2, 2, 4, 6, 8 rhymed aabbccdd
Prompt: None.
May 23, 2024 at 8:15pm
May 23, 2024 at 8:15pm
#1071603
A lady floats upon a river between towering banks.


Ophelia

Thus from the bridge,
borne by the careful current
on measured waves and shadowed water,
between the Scylla and Charybdis
of towering banks,

she floats with unseeing eyes,
life’s last kindness unwilling
to draw the curtain
on this final view of skies afire,
wasted in a life cut short.

And so she carries Hamlet’s future,
empty now of all but retribution,
a wild orgy of death and dying,
his bride forgotten in the stream.



Line count: 14
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 43 2024
Prompt: As per illustration.

May 14, 2024 at 7:12am
May 14, 2024 at 7:12am
#1071046
Sun

Must be terrible to be a sun
to spend all that time collecting dust
spinning in space and sucking in matter
having the gravity to squeeze one’s soul

totting up numbers astronomical
getting hot in the face with all that care
setting the spark to the burdened heart
and bursting into life and sight

incandescent and bright with hope
calling the children to gather round
weaving your stories of orbit and flight
caressing the dark with infinite light

aflame with creation and conflagration
and then in the height of blazing existence
to know that you’re just another pinprick
insignificant star in a cast innumerable.



Line count: 16
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 42 2024
Prompt: Sun.
May 9, 2024 at 3:59pm
May 9, 2024 at 3:59pm
#1070785
Dreams

He’s moving on
the dream seller
packing up his wares
taking down his stall

stacking the hopes and wishes
rolling up adventures
corralling the monsters
hitching the unicorns

elf and fairy remainders
sold in knockdown clusters
free dragon with every damsel
nightmares all sold out

flying dreams are tethered
riches cashed and banked
old friends folded away
and mothballed to be safe

and with his last goodbye
he’s waiting at the door
to claim the morning loaned
you won’t be needing now.



Line count: 20
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, week 41 2024
Prompt: Dreams.
May 2, 2024 at 12:49pm
May 2, 2024 at 12:49pm
#1070415
A Green and Pleasant Land

Now reduced again to the simple cloak,
Unadorned with gold and silver filigree,
Plain cloth now fitting to our late degree,
Yet worn with memories of older folk,
Both ancient Greek and those with hearts of oak.
Let’s not forget the years of jubilee,
Once South Sea washed but now in cold North Sea,
The gentle land beneath the Norman yoke.

Let greatness stand as does the Parthenon,
For Greek reminder of heritance fine,
No shame be borne as is for Babylon,
Since freedom reigned when it became the time,
And glory’s rags dispersed both here and yon,
The bells of war no longer for us chime.



Line count: 14
Form: Petrarchan sonnet - an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE.
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 40 2024
Prompt: None.

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