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Poems for year 4 of the Promptly Poetry Challenge. |
| A year's worth of poems, every week for 52 weeks, spanning 2023 and 2024. |
| Allesley Churchyard I’m on the outside looking in, my feet in the street, traffic at my back, all noise and motion, but my eyes on the scene through gateway arch to the churchyard and peace shaded by the yew trees in dark seclusion, heads together, they whisper of their roots buried deep beneath the soil with the sleepers at their rest, in a different country now, their stone testaments fading with the years, and I, contemplating mortality. Line count: 18 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 30 Prompt: Gateway. |
| Lost Oh, bright the sparkling light of that first dawn when we, the babe, do greet our wak’ning morn with lusty cries, indignant, angry fists, and bleary eyes clamped tight against the mists. Our solace then our mother’s warming breast, so beats the heart from chest to tiny chest till mild and gentle sleep the sobs doth soothe, our anger stilled in consolation smooth. How soon those birthing moments lost to time do fade beneath life’s mesmerising rhyme our former home of comfort tightly wound forgotten now behind the daily round. Line count: 12 Form: Sonnet, iambic pentameter, rhymed aabb For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 29 2024 Prompt: Lost. |
| Of Hoists and Petards Ed was a trendy young bloke who gloried in being so woke he argued all night ‘gainst everything right and now he’s the butt of this joke. Line count: 5 Form: Limerick (rhymed AABBA, anapestic metre) For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 28 2024 Prompt: Write a limerick. |
 Harvest Red Delicious and Golden, Granny Smith and Jazz, Honeycrisp and Empire, Ambrosia, Pippin, and Rave, Belle de Boskoop and Cripps Pink as the day you were born, Evercrisp and Akane, Arkansas Black in the face, Rosalynn, Smitten, and Sunrise Magic in each their own way, Gravenstein and Sweetie, the apples of autumn all. Line count: 12 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 27 2024 Prompt: As per Illustration. |
| Eyes The world devoured by eyes, your eyes, my eyes life poured eternal into them, storm drains for flood waters, they suck existence from without, light consumed but unabated, ever feeding, never sated, eyes will drink and will not cease till fate the switch does flick. Line count: 14 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 26 2024 Prompt: Eyes. |
| Mark Knopfler A simple man of frame most spare unimposing upon the air with voice so still to tell the tale while his guitar doth weep and wail and so he breaks the empty hush with gentle notes while mem’ries rush the music swells with passion strong then fades away to yearn and long and so he fills the gathered throng with days of youth and soaring song each gifted note to pluck their strings to lift them up and make them sing so in the end they live a life in other’s tales of love and strife. Line count: 28 Rhymed abcb For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 25 Prompt: Music. Notes: Mark has been described as the most lyrical of all lead guitarists and there is no doubt he deserves that accolade. But he is much more as well. He unfailingly finds the most beautiful variations of any melody when improvising in those extended lead breaks so typical of him. in this, he is more akin to a modern Johann Sebastian Bach than the vast run of rock musicians. As a lyricist, too, he is outstanding, finding subjects close to his heart and, through gifted word choice, allowing us to feel in the same way. Modern lyricists are often called poets (too often, in my estimation), but Mark deserves that description as much or more than any of them. Yet still, this stands as mere assistant to the quality of his musicianship. There is none other that can make a guitar speak as Mark can. I cannot speak highly enough of him. |
| Web All night she worked by moon and stars, by warp and woof, her secret skill, and now her silver veil, bejewelled with dew, reflects the morning light in delicate array. All day she waits while woven wisp entices trade and passersby, their presence presents gifted by innocence deceived and web in tatters left. This night she’ll work and weave anew. Line count: 18 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 23 2024 Prompt: Photo of spider’s web. |
| 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. |
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