Promptly 4, 5 and 6

I Remember

This is the first of the poems for the sixth year of Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, 2025/2026.

I Remember

Most people do, I know,
and sometimes I am carried away,
like a dandelion seed wafted on the wind,
just another old fool lost
in memories of elsewhere.

I guess we all have our elsewheres,
where childhood friends run strong and free
in a land so bright and clear,
forever young.

Change does not sully that perfect place
nor faces tire and grow old;
they stay unbent and unafraid,
ever green and innocent,
undefiled by the tumbling years.

And I’m no different,
age conforming me in draining strength,
life closing down as a faded store,
shuttered and locked in urban decay,
turned inward with no future.

I am but an archive
of a life not special
but savoured as the light wanes,
so I turn to elsewhere
while dreaming of home.


Line count: 24
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 1
Prompt: Title your poem: “I Remember” and then write a poem about a memory, real or imagined.