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 |  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). |
| Just Say No A disgruntled hippy named Stan once found himself locked in the can he didn’t half pout to find no way out and blamed it, of course, on the man. His girlfriend, a complete drama queen, was looking decidedly green, she’d swallowed some grass, now had terrible gas and drove everyone else from the scene. The moral of this sorry tale, though it may seem a little bit stale, is to keep a spare key where no one can see, and tell your dealer no sale. Line count: 15 Form: A serial limerick For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 9, 2023 Prompt: Your poem should include the following phrase: "no way out." |
Cornwall Here the sea devours land spreads golden sand ‘neath the headlands high calms the bright transparent waves to lap within the scoured caves lace the scattered rocks sky overhead smiles upon Kynance Cove Line count: 12 Form: Arkquain* For Promptly Poetry Challenge 4, Week 8 2023 No prompt. * Arkquain 12 lines with ( 1 ) break between each stanza, a total of ( 2 ) breaks, and a total of ( 3 ) stanzas. The two ( 7 ) syllable lines, must use end Rhyme. The syllable count is: 1-2-3-4 break 5-7-7-5 break 4-3-2-1 |
 Wheatfield The ripened wheat waves in the autumn sun but to whom does it wave? Goodbye to growth, of course, but who stops to view it? Just the one, and that’s to thee, a last farewell, a final oath of service ‘fore the reaper’s blade, fresh sharpened, descend to lay these golden sheaves in silent rows obedient to earth. And so the miller’s heartened, winnowed grain be crushed beneath the grinding stone, and transformed now to sacks of powdered white, ruddy faces pale with dust tote flour to the carts which, creaking now with burden piled on high, bring bounty of the field and mill to baker’s waiting arts. Then the mix, the knead, the prove, and so unto the fire, in searing heat these seeds of grass become the bread that fills our hungry bellies. So our numbers ever higher do teem to fill the world, new generations bred. The ripened wheat waves in the sun, it waves to you of course; your servant now that it is done, content to be our source. Line count: 20 Rhymed abab For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 7 2023 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Acrostic Underwater A submarine, Chrysalis and carapace, Regnant monarch of the deep, Ominous hulk in midnight rise to Surface of the heaving seas, Turreted your looming tower, Isolated, far from home, Concealed your mission ‘neath the foam. U-boat menace Nautical, Down beneath historic waters, Ever seeking, ever hungry, Relentless are your hunting ways, Where the whales their songs do sing, Aquatic beasts of common aim, There the chartless roads you roam, Endless creatures of the ocean Ride beneath the rising wave. Line count: 18 Acrostic For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 6 2023 Prompt: Underwater. Note: As much as I detest acrostics, the submarine wanted this one. |
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