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). |
Evening Golden glory a furnace in the sky the sun sets in molten incandescence its blazing liquid ore radiant in flow across the sky aflame as burning light the red hot land and coal dark trees in fury’s fires ablaze with sullen wrath while still the silent waters reflect in rose a dream of petal paint and power in pink here the bamboo bridge in blackened shade breaks the bond of bank and stream and night climbs stealthy with inky cloak to draw its veiled hand upon the dying day. Line count: 12 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 39 2024 Prompt: As per illustration. |
Cat Show me your stripes and I can see your cat you don’t have to gripe to communicate that. Leatherette armchairs temptation to them no matter your care they’re shredded to hem. Though kitten will flay you so soft and so pretty forgiveness is true for your darling kitty. Line count: 12 Rhymed abab For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 38 2024 Prompt: Stripes. |
Faith 2 Faith takes no heed of setback the wandering trail of life she keeps her gaze on the target and shuns all feelings of strife It’s true that Hope is her sister and dresses in similar style but Faith cares not for appearance and faces her fate without guile For the journey she ever is ready she turns not a moment away her friends rely on her vision and know she’ll not lead them astray. Line count: 12 Rhyming scheme: abcb For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 37 2024 Prompt: Faith. |
What’s in a Name? Zanzibar! Shangri-La! Coromandel, Samarkand and Ultima Thule, the names drip like honey, sparkled with bright jewels from our lips, enchanted sounds that weave such magic in stories bold and romances high and tragic. Mandalay and Cathay! Line count: 8 Form: Tigerjade; syllables 3,3,12,12,12,12,3,3; rhymed aabbccdd For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 36, 2024 Prompt: None. |