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Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2225590-More-Promptly-Poetry--PPC-5-and-PPC-6/day/5-7-2025
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Rated: 13+ · Book · Emotional · #2225590

More poems for Promptly Poetry

Prompt: (verb) to move to action
Promptly: (adverb) : very quickly or immediately
Poetry: a form of writing that no one ever reads
May 7, 2025 at 6:30am
May 7, 2025 at 6:30am
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Options you offer
options to change my world
to regulate the environment
with a touch of a button.
DRY or COOL.

Temperature and humidity
in Celsius or Fahrenheit
set for now or later.
Timed for comfort
you offer ultimate control.

But your unit is gone
a victim of its own usefulness
worn down by demands.
No air hums over its louvers
it no longer responds
when you call to it.

Disconnected, still
you read the room.
It’s eighty-six you tell me
but I know that’s wrong
Your batteries are weak.
so you cannot be trusted.

I will put you in the drawer,
just in case.



Written for "Promptly Poetry Challenge (2025-2026)Open in new Window.

Prompt/Week # 37


Pick any object in your room.
Now write a poem describing this object.



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