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).
Thank you, HaveYourselfAMerryLi'lCharles. I've contested the Charlie Chaplin thing a couple of times, won once, if I remember correctly. But it's the kind of thing I try when bored and have nothing better to do - just doesn't seem to have happened lately.
The first and last, alpha and omega,
so life plays out its petty dance,
right to the end when breath comes short
and every nuance snatched at,
only to slip through the grasp,
aged fingers awkward in their haste
to hold the final moments hesitant,
the sight now dim in fading light.
Thus poor creature huddled in vain,
resigned through long acquaintance,
yet unable to loose its grip in final sigh,
would say quite bold, “Yes, now would be
the moment, smoothed by constant touch
to familiarity and rest.”
And then the life force, instinct, will,
turns in an instant ferocious still,
no, just one more breath, a second glance,
before I go - it’s not too much to ask.
Line count: 18
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 14 2024
Prompt: Use at least three of the following words in your poem: stunning, nuance, colorful, last, first.
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