Promptly 4, 5 and 6

The Place in Between

This is the last of the poems for the fifth year of Promptly Poetry Challenge 5, 2024/2025.

The Place in Between

The wood between the worlds,
where silence reigns becalmed in shade
while dreams are like the ferns unfurled
and stillness cloaks pools in every glade.

Just one thing moves in all that hush,
a guinea pig with ribbon tied a yellow ring,
thus memory returns with childhood rush,
magician’s test to this place brings.

Each somnolent pool beneath the trees
is gateway to a different place,
to terrible Charn of mortal disease,
or new world waking in light and grace.

The wood between the worlds,
a magical land accessible only through
a book, its secret is curled
in Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew.


Line count: 16
Rhymed abab
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 52
Prompt: Use The Place in Between as your title.