Poems for years 4 and 5 of the Promptly Poetry Challenge. |
A year's worth of poems, every week for 52 weeks, spanning 2023 and 2024, plus the year following, from August 2024 to August 2025.(provided I live that long, of course). |
A Jitty Ditty Alley oop, alley way, O’Malley held a rally down the alley one day, Back street, crack street, frack street meet, City jitty*, pretty gritty, Walter Mitty play, Pity party, ditty hearty, arty farty way, Smarty panted, Artie ranted, Marty kept the beat, Sweet Selena you shoulda seen her, Oh, the dreamer, none serener, Dance diviner, nothing finer, From the barrow sends the arrow, sparrow flies away, Spies the evening fraught with meaning, Leaning, keening, cleaning, screening, though the scheming’s so demeaning, Still the morn shall make it pay. Line count: 14 Rhymed aabaabcccaddda For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 13 2023 Prompt: Alley. Note: *Jitty is colloquial English in some regions, defined as the narrow passage between rows of terraced houses. |
A Trinket a Tanka Tanka very much, no paddle for my canoe and I up this creek, promptless once again to drift. So I thankee very much. Line count: 5 Form: Tanka (5 lines, syllables 5, 7, 5, 7, 7) For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 12 2023 Prompt: Tanka. |
How Now, Aldous Huxley? The doors of perception heaven and hell uncertain reception doom clock and bell knock once and enter wait on the call saint or repenter the entrance for all no temporary hiatus dependant on chance nor payment for status the end of the dance. Line count: 12 Rhymed abab For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 11 2023 Prompt: Picture of ornately decorated doors. |
Okay, Faith Yes, I have faith but I’m not about to boast, it’s ‘tween me and God without need to post; if you ask if I believe, I’ll tell you whatever, and after not care if you berate me forever; I’ll even attempt to explain how I got here, when it comes to the truth I don’t have any fear, but the matter of faith is a very diff’rent beast, and no business of yours, no, not in the least; it may be a mustard seed, could be a mountain, it’s not easy to do, to measure a fountain, although I can say that it’s lasted this long, to guess at the future would only be wrong. Line count: 12 Rhyming couplets For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 10 2023 Prompt: Faith. |