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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).
September 30, 2024 at 10:12am
September 30, 2024 at 10:12am
#1077484
Water

the drop depends on the lip of the tap
sharp reflection of the world
quivers above abyss



Line count: 3
Form: Kimo
For Promptly Poetry Challenge 5, Week 8
Prompt: Kimo - Israeli version of the Japanese Haiku, usually image-specific and acts as a still life, or snapshot, of a single moment. Three lines, syllable count 10, 7, 6.
September 26, 2024 at 11:27am
September 26, 2024 at 11:27am
#1077312
Week

Monday rolls in, so full of promise,
Tuesday arrives with the Pacific War,
Wednesday is hump day and soon upon us
Thursday is empty and uncertain, unsure,
Friday senses an end to the book,
Saturday brings more time for tea,
Sunday falls softly with barely a look
so goes my week from the land to the sea.

This is retirement, the end of real work,
day follows day, a cycle of time,
habit the ruler, the vulture and stork,
over and over whether sainted or crime.



Line count: 12
Rhymed abab
For Promptly Poetry Challenge 5, Week 7
Prompt: Use the following words in your poem: Monday, fall, tea, book.
Notes: The poem is quite personal since it describes my week, not yours. Much needs explanation but I’ll explain just the Pacific War reference. This recalls the fact that my favourite YouTube vloggers release each episode in their study of the Pacific War on Tuesday mornings. It forms my entertainment during breakfast on that day.
September 15, 2024 at 12:56pm
September 15, 2024 at 12:56pm
#1076830
A Soft Day

A soft day
as the Irish have it
to describe those grey days
so natural to the British isles
when the cloud comes down to meet us
shrouded in gloom and dim light
with rain so fine
it falls not but inhabits the atmosphere
soaking nothing
but arraying our clothes
with the diamonds of tiny drops
held on the fibres
miniature pinpricks of moisture
and we swim in the mist
creatures of the silent world
coddled in chilly companionship
grateful for the veil
that hides our secrets.

A soft day indeed
and the mark that seals our souls
with talk of weather
as though anything but this gentle touch
could steal our hearts.



Line count: 23
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge 5, Week 6
Prompt: A rainy day.
September 13, 2024 at 4:00pm
September 13, 2024 at 4:00pm
#1076753



Pumpkins

Pale and protected from the sun,
ghost pumpkins white await their fate,
dreaming perhaps of Florida
where their sickly hue might tan

to burnished gold of bolder mien,
or orange from the salon’s sessions,
a brazen bunch of bulging beam,
and ready now for Halloween

with toothy grin and archèd brow,
brain aflame with darkened thought,
as evil creeps extended night,
the world embraced by fearful dream.

And so to reach their pumpkin calling,
no longer wan and unappealing,
but ghosts arisen from the dead
with furbished claim upon their rights.



Line count: 16
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge 5, Week 5
Prompt: As per illustration.
September 2, 2024 at 6:51am
September 2, 2024 at 6:51am
#1076077
Celebration

Twenty-four today, twice twelve,
scribbler’s ship sails on,
literary legend so loquacious,
vaunted vessel of valiant view.

So sails the ship on spider’s seas,
wanderer of web, warp and woof,
gallant the galleon, great the game,
she bends to the briny breeze.

Calls to the captain the clever crew,
cheers to the challenge of twenty-four more,
roistering rum ration raised to the roof,
sozzled the scribes in sweet sentiment.

Alike in action, all assert their aim,
onward only to open ocean,
they raise their glasses in tumult and praise,
birthday the happiest to Writing dot com!



Line count: 16
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 4 2024
Prompt: Write a celebratory birthday poem to WdC.
September 1, 2024 at 11:29am
September 1, 2024 at 11:29am
#1076014
Advice

Mind how you go, hard times ahead,
take care, if you’d get home to bed,
the future is a place unknown,
be wary of the traps and stones,
keep eyes upon the winding path and drifting snow,
so guard ambition on the heights, mind how you go.

The storm will pass, the night will end,
you’ll ride the beast bad luck will send,
if you can grasp and not let go
your destination’s cheery glow,
beyond the sands sweet meadows lie, bright flowered grass,
the valleys wide, the days so bright - the storm will pass.



Line count: 12
Form: Wrapped refrain
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 3 2024
Prompt: Wrapped Refrain form - 2 or more stanzas of 6 lines each;
Meter: 8,8,8,8,12,12 and Rhyme Scheme: a,a,b,b,c,c. In each stanza, the first 4 syllables (or 4 single-syllable words) in the first line must be the last 4 syllables (or 4 single-syllable words) at the end of the last line.

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