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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).
December 1, 2023 at 2:59pm
December 1, 2023 at 2:59pm
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Vermeer's painting Girl with a Pearl Earring.


Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring

She turns toward us
a glance over the shoulder
light glowing from her face
and a look that searches
us.

In time we might notice
the dark background
the bright and vaguely Arabic clothing
even the pearl earring.

But always we return
to those eyes
and the life within.

Timeless she is
350 years old and more
but alive and young and modern too
that brief glance searching us
as we gaze into her soul.



Line count: 17
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 18 2023
Prompt: Art.



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