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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).
March 3, 2026 at 11:21am
March 3, 2026 at 11:21am
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Apple Blossom

My grandmother had an old apple tree,
spreading gnarled branches in shadow
and dark in the foliage of summer.

But the spring blossom gave hope,
with a white and bridal veil in the sun
that cloaked its misshapen fingers.

Yearly the miracle of promise renewed,
settled on that ancient titan of age,
the delicate flowers denying their dark past.

And so to the autumn and ripening,
the wedding splendour now forgotten,
replaced with small, hard and bitter fruit.


Line count: 12
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 29
Prompt: Photo of apple blossom.
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