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Prompt: (verb) to move to action
Promptly: (adverb) : very quickly or immediately
Poetry: a form of writing that no one ever reads
May 17, 2025 at 7:34am
May 17, 2025 at 7:34am
#1089499
Wake your dreams,trust me, they will not break.
Break that drowsy spell, see the sun wake.
Shine a new light upon your life’s design.
Design each moment to brightly shine.
Goodbye to wishful dreams, it’s time to fly.
Fly to your destiny, wave fears goodbye.



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PROMPT - week 40

Mirror Sestet

The Mirror Sestet, created by Shelley A. Cephas, is a poem that can be written in one or more stanzas of 6 lines each. The specific guidelines for this form are as follows:

The first word of line 1 rhymes with the last word of line 1.
The first word of line 2 is the last word of line 1
and the last word of line 2 is the 1st word of line 1.

The first word of line 3 rhymes with the last word of line 3.
The first word of line 4 is the last word of line 3
and the last word of line 4 is the 1st word of line 3.

The first word of line 5 rhymes with the last word of line 5.
The first word of line 6 is the last word of line 5
and the last word of line 6 is the 1st word of line 5.
May 11, 2025 at 6:15am
May 11, 2025 at 6:15am
#1089093
Mother, may I go out and play?
the sun is shining bright today.
The lilacs have burst forth on the trees,
“it’s May, it’s May” buzz the busy bees.

Leaves, not buds, cover every bough,
April’s tomfoolery is over now.
Nary a cloud mars a clear blue sky,
only the fledgings learning to fly.

It’s time for me to leave the nest,
I want to soar like all the rest.
The sun is shining bright today,
oh Mother, may I go out and play?


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Week 39

Prompt - an image of things relating to May, including a May calendar
May 8, 2025 at 6:45am
May 8, 2025 at 6:45am
#1088919

Such tiny hands and tiny feet
a tiny thumb in your mouth so sweet
With just a turn of your secret key
you squirmed in my arms like a real baby

I remember Thumbelina,
showing you to Grammy
how amazed she was to see you move.
“Nothing like that in my day”
she might have said.
I don’t remember exactly.
I was five and all I have
is the memory of you in her arms,
one photo of you and me
on that Christmas morning,
and the name of the dog
that chewed you up
and killed you.


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Prompt/Week # 38

Write a poem about your favorite childhood toy.
May 7, 2025 at 6:30am
May 7, 2025 at 6:30am
#1088858
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.



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Prompt/Week # 37


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

May 5, 2025 at 7:53am
May 5, 2025 at 7:53am
#1088750
We’ll tell everyone we live in France
in a stately villa by the sea.
From the city we did flee,
to the land of grand romance.
We’ll tell everyone we live in France.

Tell them how lovely life can be
how our hearts are finally free.
A life of wine and song and dance.
We’ll tell everyone we live in France.

Happiness there is a guarantee
each day we play in the spray on a spree,
the night’s lull is a heavenly trance.
We’ll tell everyone we live in France.

Though it’s a dream, we both agree
even if we must wait till we’re retirees
someday, we’ll be bold and take a chance.
We’ll tell everyone we live in France.


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Week 36

------Poetry Form: DANSA

Here are the guidelines for writing the dansa:

Opening quintain (or 5-line stanza) followed by quatrains (or 4-line stanzas)
The opening line of the first stanza is the final line of every stanza, including the first
Rhyme scheme in the opening stanza: AbbaA (capital A represents the refrain)
Rhyme scheme in all other stanzas: bbaA
No other rules for subject, length, or meter.

One additional PPC rule for this one: a minimum of 13 lines (3 stanzas per the above rules)


May 4, 2025 at 7:24am
May 4, 2025 at 7:24am
#1088683
It’s the artist’s dream -
echoes of footsteps
tapping on cobblestones
poetry in percussion.
Strangers sipping wine,
spilling secrets,
sitting at tables
beneath his window.
A room above the cafe,
not quite an attic
but suitably rustic,
the atmosphere should write itself,
yet the pages
stay stubbornly blank.
He opens another bottle of wine,
perhaps, he has not suffered enough.
Soon, soon.


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Prompt - Image of a narrow street and cafe in Italy, titled La Dolce Vita

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