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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). |
| This is the first of the poems for the sixth year of Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, 2025/2026. I Remember Most people do, I know, and sometimes I am carried away, like a dandelion seed wafted on the wind, just another old fool lost in memories of elsewhere. I guess we all have our elsewheres, where childhood friends run strong and free in a land so bright and clear, forever young. Change does not sully that perfect place nor faces tire and grow old; they stay unbent and unafraid, ever green and innocent, undefiled by the tumbling years. And I’m no different, age conforming me in draining strength, life closing down as a faded store, shuttered and locked in urban decay, turned inward with no future. I am but an archive of a life not special but savoured as the light wanes, so I turn to elsewhere while dreaming of home. Line count: 24 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 1 Prompt: Title your poem: “I Remember” and then write a poem about a memory, real or imagined. |
| This is the last of the poems for the fifth year of Promptly Poetry Challenge 5, 2024/2025. The Place in Between The wood between the worlds, where silence reigns becalmed in shade while dreams are like the ferns unfurled and stillness cloaks pools in every glade. Just one thing moves in all that hush, a guinea pig with ribbon tied a yellow ring, thus memory returns with childhood rush, magician’s test to this place brings. Each somnolent pool beneath the trees is gateway to a different place, to terrible Charn of mortal disease, or new world waking in light and grace. The wood between the worlds, a magical land accessible only through a book, its secret is curled in Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew. Line count: 16 Rhymed abab For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 52 Prompt: Use The Place in Between as your title. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
 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. |
| Waiting Room Choose a seat and sit down back against the wall defensive the waiting room earns its name and now you’re caught unknown forces debate your fate and you await the call. Look around but never linger don’t stare at others waiting glances must not meet watch the clock ceilings are good especially if panelled there’s silence there a place to rest the eye. A clock on the wall with second hand ticking through the moments identical its circular journey excuse to stare long after noting the time. Just as the hands need placement so the eyes move on you know the scene you check your fellow sufferers as the summoned depart suddenly energised with fresh hope a subtle countdown to hasten your turn. You’re a fortress isolate upon a peak distant, unmoved, bearing the weight of time unaffected by the world while your mind seeks change anything that moves and still you’re still defenses up and fortified against eternal time slowing to a crawl. Line count: 40 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 46 Prompt: Write about the feelings you experience or things you notice while waiting for something. |
| Touch A light breeze ruffles the hairs on my forearm I feel each one move a tree in the forest, bending, swaying glad of the cooling influence of the air Just as the wind sweeps through the wheatfield bending the gold in waves and I grasp the seedhead of one crush it in my fingers to scatter Like seabirds landing to rest in the sea riding the billows of the deep and beckoning fishers from afar while I cling to the rough rigging rope. Line count: 12 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 45 Prompt: Select one of the five senses, then write a poem about it. |
| Minute Poems Poems produced in a minute, not infinite but very short, a fleeting thought. Poems so small but not minute, they blow my flute and so my song won’t last too long. Poems that measure the angle, not new fangled, less than degree, a minute be. Line count: 12 Form: Minute For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 44 Prompt: Write a minute poem - 12 lines of 60 syllables written in strict iambic meter, three stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables, rhymed aabb, ccdd, eeff. |
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