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Poems for years 4 and 5 of the Promptly Poetry Challenge.
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#1086505 added April 3, 2025 at 10:53am
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The Seasons
The Seasons

The seasons being the template of so many things in life,
the daily round eternal bringing echoes of the the dawn
till brightest noonday sun, to be followed by the evening shade
with darkest midnight promised,

so winter speaks of that misty, dreamlike place, our home,
mysterious land of formative, forgotten phantoms from which emerge
the first beginnings of the person we are meant to be,
growing into the one we know as me.

And spring is like those years we find when awareness blooms in full,
our arms embracing all that comes enticing within our reach
and clear eyes lead plans and schemes of all that can be grasped
in reaching what we choose to call maturity.

The summer comes with certainty, in greatest confidence,
completed child and basking in the heat of summer’s bounty,
with life burgeoning with positive assurance, no thought of year’s end,
the longest days deceiving.

Then the fall in so many ways, as autumn spreads its cloak
of golden times as rewards for work, now slower pace invading,
the dying leaves reminders all that nothing lasts forever
and celebrations muted now in shortened days.

Return to winter and those colder times, the bones are aching,
breath frosted with the waiting knowledge that life grows thin,
the wasted body struggling now, indecision ruling thought,
and so, at last, it’s over.



Line count: 24
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, week 34
Prompt: Use the following words in your poem: Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn.

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