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Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2249896-Even-Prompter/day/10-24-2022
Rated: E · Book · Writing · #2249896

Book of poems written for the second and third years of the Promptly Poetry Challenge.

2023 Quill Nominee


Poems written for Promptly Poetry Years Two and Three. Year three is four poems short of being complete but, having reached 100, I have run out of room in this book for the last few of 2023. This overflow will be consigned to the previous collection of Promptly poems, named Promptly Poetry.
October 24, 2022 at 4:06pm
October 24, 2022 at 4:06pm
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Promises

Promises,
stuck like dry flour
at the back of the throat,
nagging and niggling,
while procrastination balks
at duty multiplied.

Promises,
freely given,
careless castoffs of the moment,
rash essays to gallantry,
now transformed
to coercion self inflicted.

Promises,
once bright and shining,
in youth so promising,
now worn and tarnished,
fulfilled as only
promises.



Line count: 18
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 16
Prompt: Promises.


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