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Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2249896-Even-Prompter/day/2-28-2023
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.
February 28, 2023 at 7:25pm
February 28, 2023 at 7:25pm
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Mirror Man

I knew a man from the mirror once,
he seemed like any other.
A jovial man, of gentle humour,
he could have been my brother.

Except for this, a quirky gift,
he was able to write backwards,
and forward too and upside down
believe me, it’s no canard.

But worst of all he showed me how
in mirror writing he was adept.
Just think of how he gained these skills;
I tried them too, and wept.

What makes a man devote himself
to talents so obscure?
It baffled me for many a year,
still seems like torture pure.



Line count: 16
Rhymed abcb
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 34
Prompt: Mirror.
Note: True story, honest.



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