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Rated: 13+ · Book · Emotional · #2225590
More poems for Promptly Poetry, stuffed into this book because I have reached my limit.
Prompt: (verb) to move to action
Promptly: (adverb) : very quickly or immediately
Poetry: a form of writing that no one ever reads
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August 26, 2020 at 8:32pm
August 26, 2020 at 8:32pm
#991662
Garden planting plan:
Begonias tuberous,
tulips numerous.
Will they grow?
I am juberous.


5/6/5/3/5

24 Syllables
Prompt: juberous: doubtful and hesitating : DUBIOUS (Merriam-Webster)
August 21, 2020 at 2:51pm
August 21, 2020 at 2:51pm
#991299
Is this my city? This
blood and calamity?
No mercy, no pity,
No hope for comity.


6 6 6 6
24 Syllable Poetry
Prompt: Comity
August 19, 2020 at 2:27pm
August 19, 2020 at 2:27pm
#991175
Published, at last!
She assumed an air
of literary cachet.
Ninety-nine cents at Amazon.


24 Syllables

5 5 7 7
Prompt: cachet
August 17, 2020 at 9:21pm
August 17, 2020 at 9:21pm
#991052
Flash of rain lashes the trees.
Still the steady sun shines through,
and makes diamonds of ev’ry
limpid drop.


7/7/7/3

24 Syllables
Prompt: limpid
August 14, 2020 at 9:06am
August 14, 2020 at 9:06am
#990758
Gloomy castle, misty moor
Brooding hero, ghostly lore
Curled up with a Gothic romance
         once more…


7/7/8/2
24 Syllables
Prompt: Gothic
August 12, 2020 at 11:22am
August 12, 2020 at 11:22am
#990598
Soulless selfies
flaunting fashion -
social media influencers,
lodestar for vacuous fans.


4/4/9/7

24 syllables
Prompt: Lodestar
August 7, 2020 at 8:12am
August 7, 2020 at 8:12am
#990168
June Cleaver
apron starched stiff white,
bakes trays of cookies.
Paradigm of television motherhood.


24 Syllables
Prompt: paradigm

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August 3, 2020 at 4:00pm
August 3, 2020 at 4:00pm
#989803
Barefoot
on the plush garden carpet,
Wild violet kisses
between my toes,
tickle my morning.

24 Syllables
2 7 6 4 5

Prompt: violet
July 31, 2020 at 10:17am
July 31, 2020 at 10:17am
#989584
dry pen grasped in trembling fingers,
taps out meter on hoary, stubbled chin.
what shall I write today?

24 Syllables
Prompt: hoary

8 10 6
July 29, 2020 at 1:25pm
July 29, 2020 at 1:25pm
#989451
outside the orbiting craft,
anchor line snaps -
astronaut, forever
adrift in atrous vacuum


24 Syllables
7 4 6 7
Prompt: atrous

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