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Rated: 13+ · Book · Cultural · #2299350
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).
October 17, 2024 at 11:26am
October 17, 2024 at 11:26am
#1078461
Oh, Do Not Ask, “What is it?”

Some things are so special,
moments of bright sunbursts
of awareness, scattered
as mountain peaks in the foothills
of life, high experiences
that shine their crystal clarity
and illumine the dark corners
forever.

To speak of them in hope
of understanding is to demean
the mystery, to drain the nearness
of the divine with earthly care,
the perfect light of that instant
sullied with inspection and
force feeding the replete.

‘Tis enough to say
God spoke.



Line count: 17
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 10 2024
Prompt: Write a poem about a moment when you felt overwhelmingly joyful.
Note: The title is a quote from
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot.



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