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 Poems for years 4, 5 and 6 of the Promptly Poetry Challenge. |
| A year's worth of poems, every week for 52 weeks, spanning 2023 and 2024, plus the years following, from August 2024 to August 2025, 2025 to 2026 (provided I live that long, of course). |
| Snowflake Saturnine is the word that comes to mind - Not that it is necessarily apt Or that it’s the perfect word I find When all my energy is sapped From wrestling with the possibilities Latent in acrostic nightmares. Aware how futile are my pleas, Knowing too the form disturbs my ease, “Enough,” I hasten to declare. Line count: 9 Form: Acrostic, rhymed abab cdccd just for fun. For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 24 Prompt: An acrostic using the word “Snowflake.” |
| Equality Equality is like tomorrow promises much but has to borrow the problem is we’re not the same in being diff’rent there’s no shame. We’re all equipped with special talents they work together to give balance for each of us a diff’rent mould some may be steel but others gold. And force the issue if you will identical thoughts the mould to fill it does not matter how you strive what you create will be the hive. Line count: 12 Rhymed aabb For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 23 Prompt: Equality. |
| Oh Shun the Swirling Ocean Talk about the deep where the nightmare creatures creep and the lights in darkness steeped the pressure upward heaped this place of utter death beyond a final breath where metal walls do sweat and mortal minds so fret their dreaming merely rife with thoughts of air and life. Or savour the relief as buoyed in their belief they rise unto the surface the sun above a furnace the waves in endless motion with sight a healing potion and salt the taste unbidden all sign of shore is hidden and you a cork that bobs a castaway that sobs. Or stand upon the sand now rescued on the land above the waterline and happy that this time the ocean is a sight in pure and limpid light to see and not to be for you are fancy free to dally at the edge a stone upon a ledge. Line count: 30 Rhymed aabb For Promptly Poetry Challenge Week 22, 01.14.26 Prompt: Write a rhyming poem about the ocean without using the word “water”. |
| Dragonfly She hovers over the surface all metallic blue and green shunning a drab camouflage the insect helicopter. Tucked her spindly undercarriage whirring her dragonfly rotors she menaces the shining waters carapaced gunship. Apache blackhawk pretender floating mystery in space she dreams of the duckweed deep nursery of the beast. Line count: 12 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 21 Prompt: Use these words in your poem - dragonfly, mystery, blue. |
| Looking Ahead Heads up concentrate vision pinpointed to the distance one headlight focused at extreme range pool of light in the darkness on we hurtle. Shapes flash peripherally today glimpsed formless in the night and in the mirror yesterday piles its dreams forsaken. Line count: 14 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 20 Prompt: Looking Ahead as the title. Write a poem inspired by it. A minimum of 12 lines is required. |
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