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Rated: 18+ · Book · Fantasy · #2316938
GoT plus the PromptMaster! and Cards Against Authors stuff (poetry and short stories)
#1085022 added March 8, 2025 at 2:49pm
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Of Upper Lips
Of Upper Lips

Now at last the worst has happened,
disaster swoops, my will to sap and
drain me of all hope to win;
so low am I my head’s aspin.

Yet my mood is not downhearted,
I feel better than when I started,
my burdens fade and fall away,
much brighter now the coming day.

You see as I have reached the nadir,
ill fortune serves to make me hardier
and I rejoice, am certain sure,
tomorrow brings my wondrous cure.

For now that I have reached the deepest
and may indeed seem done and weakest,
directional choice I have but one
and that is upward - and I shall run!



Line count: 16
Rhymed quatrains aabb
For PromptMaster! Week 1 Task Prompt
Prompt: Write about disappointment or sadness that reads strangely cheerful or upbeat.

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