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Rated: 13+ · Book · Cultural · #2299350
Poems for year 4 of the Promptly Poetry Challenge.
A year's worth of poems, every week for 52 weeks, spanning 2023 and 2024.
January 31, 2024 at 10:32am
January 31, 2024 at 10:32am
#1063233


Harvest

Red Delicious and Golden,
Granny Smith and Jazz,
Honeycrisp and Empire,
Ambrosia, Pippin, and Rave,
Belle de Boskoop and Cripps
Pink as the day you were born,
Evercrisp and Akane,
Arkansas Black in the face,
Rosalynn, Smitten, and Sunrise
Magic in each their own way,
Gravenstein and Sweetie,
the apples of autumn all.



Line count: 12
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 27 2024
Prompt: As per Illustration.

January 24, 2024 at 10:48am
January 24, 2024 at 10:48am
#1062902
Eyes

The world
devoured by eyes,
your eyes, my eyes
life poured eternal into them,
storm drains for flood waters,
they suck existence
from without,
light consumed
but unabated,
ever feeding,
never sated,
eyes will drink
and will not cease
till fate the switch does flick.



Line count: 14
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 26 2024
Prompt: Eyes.

January 16, 2024 at 11:36am
January 16, 2024 at 11:36am
#1062481
Mark Knopfler

A simple man
of frame most spare
unimposing
upon the air

with voice so still
to tell the tale
while his guitar
doth weep and wail

and so he breaks
the empty hush
with gentle notes
while mem’ries rush

the music swells
with passion strong
then fades away
to yearn and long

and so he fills
the gathered throng
with days of youth
and soaring song

each gifted note
to pluck their strings
to lift them up
and make them sing

so in the end
they live a life
in other’s tales
of love and strife.



Line count: 28
Rhymed abcb
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 25
Prompt: Music.
Notes: Mark has been described as the most lyrical of all lead guitarists and there is no doubt he deserves that accolade. But he is much more as well. He unfailingly finds the most beautiful variations of any melody when improvising in those extended lead breaks so typical of him. in this, he is more akin to a modern Johann Sebastian Bach than the vast run of rock musicians. As a lyricist, too, he is outstanding, finding subjects close to his heart and, through gifted word choice, allowing us to feel in the same way. Modern lyricists are often called poets (too often, in my estimation), but Mark deserves that description as much or more than any of them. Yet still, this stands as mere assistant to the quality of his musicianship. There is none other that can make a guitar speak as Mark can. I cannot speak highly enough of him.

January 10, 2024 at 4:29pm
January 10, 2024 at 4:29pm
#1062172
Innocence

Innocence
Pure, unsullied
Disarming, revealing, inspiring
Rare and spotless sacrifice
Scapegoat



Line count: 5
Form: Cinquain
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 24 2024
Prompt: Write a cinquain.

January 3, 2024 at 12:58pm
January 3, 2024 at 12:58pm
#1061801
Web

All night she worked
by moon and stars,
by warp and woof,
her secret skill,
and now her silver veil,
bejewelled with dew,
reflects the morning light
in delicate array.

All day she waits
while woven wisp
entices trade
and passersby,
their presence
presents gifted
by innocence deceived
and web in tatters left.

This night she’ll work
and weave anew.



Line count: 18
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 23 2024
Prompt: Photo of spider’s web.


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