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Rated: 13+ · Book · Cultural · #2299350

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).
July 31, 2025 at 10:18am
July 31, 2025 at 10:18am
#1094437
Tortilla!

A wonderful thing the tortilla,
no matter what the filler -
tacos, burritos, quesadillas,
others if you are bolder,
all depends on how you fold her.



Line count: 5
Rhymed aaabb, 25 words
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 51
Prompt: Write a poem that is no more than 25 words long.
July 27, 2025 at 3:34pm
July 27, 2025 at 3:34pm
#1094213
Mystery Novelist

A locked door
that was free before,
a hidden key
lost in eternity.

A secret kept
from all who slept,
a veiled answer
and necromancer.

A map in code
shows the fabled road,
and thus the way
the mystery pays.



Line count: 12
Rhymed aabb
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 50
Prompt: A locked door.
July 20, 2025 at 4:57pm
July 20, 2025 at 4:57pm
#1093779
Okay, I’ll Choose One

Opera I do not love,
opera I learned to hate;
it seemed to me a trifle rough
and on my nerves did grate.

By chance I came upon,
in YouTube session former,
a song of songs, a wondrous song -
I discovered Nessun Dorma.

It’s opera I hear you say
and I would not deny,
but beauty lives in several ways
and this song touches sky.



Line count: 12
Rhymed abab
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 49
Prompt: Write about a song you love.
July 8, 2025 at 11:54am
July 8, 2025 at 11:54am
#1093036
Seven

Seven syllables per line,
not essential that they rhyme,
and seven lines to finish,
your chances won’t diminish.

Just keep counting that’s the way,
so I’ll be the last to say,
versifying’s done today.



Line count: 7
Rhymed aabbccc
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 48
Prompt: Seven syllables, seven lines.
July 7, 2025 at 8:04am
July 7, 2025 at 8:04am
#1092975


Table

Picasso and Braque
Cubists extraordinaire
Paint celebration
Geometric profusion
Rectangles and squares
Circles and frosting ovate.

The flat board of delight
Cupcakes of pastel
Triangles flagging
Flowers of still life
Refreshing the lemons
Presenting the cubes.



Line count: 12
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 47
Prompt: As per illustration.

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