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 |  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). |
| Oh Tropic Nights Oh tropic nights when insect hum and buzz and click and creatures call and wail and moan a woven shroud a lullaby of warm enfolding sound Oh tropic nights of stars outspread in myriad array their shining hordes unloosed and bright on velvet skies so far and vast of darkest indigo. Oh tropic nights humidity and sweat-soaked sheets to turn and twist in sleepless search and fevered dreams torment indeed to fill the stifling hours. Line count: 24 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 22 2023 Prompt: Stars. |
| OK, Passion Passion is a heady draught, sometimes it makes us daft; at others lifts unto the heights, with other worlds in sight When bound by passion’s mighty grip, how easily we slip from grace into such sad folly, that sends us off our trolley. It’s for the young, that is the thing, they stand the pain it brings; and now that we have grown so old, with luck, it leaves us cold. Line count: 12 Rhymed couplets For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 21 2023 Prompt: Passion. Note: I found this prompt probably the hardest ever encountered in Promptly, which is the reason for my taking five days to ponder on it. The problem was that I was trying to say something serious about the subject and there is just too much to say in that case. In the end I have been reduced to being flippant. My apologies. |
| Kitten Ho, pink and furry creature, I have you now, prisoner to my curved scimitars, I hold you powerless in my grasp. Just wriggle once, I dare you, and mayhap I’ll release you, to spark the frantic chase anew. Or pretend death, I warn you, and my arcing, flashing blades be quick to disembowel you. Line count: 12 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 19 2023 Prompt: Photo of kitten playing with a scrap of soft material. |
 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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