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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).
June 25, 2024 at 11:33am
June 25, 2024 at 11:33am
#1073165
Evening

Old age is like a setting sun
Red and gold in a painted sky
Heat and light bleeding from an open wound
A cloak of darkness flung upon the world.



Line count: 4
Form: Pantun. Four lines, with each line having eight to 12 syllables. The first two lines typically establish a theme, while the second two lines provide a twist or unexpected conclusion.
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 48
Prompt: Write a pantun.
June 21, 2024 at 1:02pm
June 21, 2024 at 1:02pm
#1072986


Adventure

Mud mosaic of dragon scales
she strides the path now desiccated
the lakebed wrinkled carapace
and treads the lines of broken silt
in dreams of patterns underfoot
while feathered finger points the way
in wild intent haphazard
her steps through lands imagined.

Follow the line
indented way
these the sign
for fantasy play.



Line count: 12
Free verse plus a little rhyming
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 47
Prompt: As per illustration.
June 11, 2024 at 10:50am
June 11, 2024 at 10:50am
#1072472
Mists

Africa does not waste its time with mist,
its sunwashed plains are seldom kissed,
precipitation saved for thunderstorms
and cloudbursts being the season’s norm.

And so I found the mists of northern shores
a mystical, mythical dream from literary lore,
a secret land of silent sight constricted
by guarded peace and softest grey restricted.

Inside this insubstantial world now shrunk
with distant ocean’s breath inhaled and drunk,
I find ancestral cause for celebration
and I, in mists, a certain affirmation.



Line count: 12
Rhymed aabb
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 46
Prompt: Mist.
June 5, 2024 at 3:47pm
June 5, 2024 at 3:47pm
#1072196
Mirror

Ah, always the same old question
who’s this and who’s that
who’s thinnest, who’s fat
who’s pretty in pink
and never mind the stink
who’s wise as an owl
with a voice that’s just foul
who’s strutting today
will be crawling in May
who sings like a lark
but shouts in a bark
who colours her hair
when nobody’s there
who sings in the bath
a complete psychopath
who fiddles and diddles
in the middle of riddles
whoever asks me again
will hear from me then
I’m only a mirror
and not wisdom’s pillar
now think of another damn question.



House Martell

Line count: 22, word count: 100
Rhymed aabb
For "Game of ThronesOpen in new Window. The North Remembers, Mirror Mirror Prompt 1 Poetry and Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 45
Prompt: "Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who's the ________ of them all?"
Note: This fits so well with Promptly's prompt that I thought I'd try submitting it. There's no rule that insists on newly written stuff and it was written less than two months ago, so here it is. If you reject it, I guess I'll write another, but the concept fills my head and I can't think of anything else at the moment.


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