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). |
Pumpkin This November, party pumpkin, missed October, silly chumpkin, kept on growing in the patch, slept beneath the leafy thatch, dozed unnoticed through All Hallows, woke when all the fields were fallow. Now the gourd repents at leisure, no one needs his golden treasure, wasted all his autumn girth, spent forever his season’s mirth, now a tear drops from his eye, does no one fancy pumpkin pie? Line count: 12 Rhyming couplets For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 14 2023 Prompt: Pumpkin. |
Oh Yeah, Peace, Man Oh, love that bomb and its obliteration, celebrate the curse of abomination, anaesthetise with our extermination, let amnesia be your instigation. You can march or even shout aloud, a single protest or in a crowd, opinionate and deregulate, drift off to sleep in some drug you ate. But you can’t unlearn what now you know, the mind has you forever in tow, our course is set, direction chosen, our sentence clear, in stone letters frozen. Line count: 12 Rhymed. Oh, and the syllable count is interesting. It has meter after all. For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 15 2023 Prompt: A colourful peace sign. |