\"Writing.Com
*Magnify*
    April    
2023
SMTWTFS
      
1
2
3
4
6
7
8
9
10
11
13
14
15
16
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
26
27
28
29
30
Archive RSS
Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2249896-Even-Prompter/day/4-17-2023
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.
April 17, 2023 at 11:34am
April 17, 2023 at 11:34am
#1048325
Whew

Seems to me
a bit twee,
this matter of syllables lengthy and many;
if we had to pay, they’d cost a pretty penny,
for each line to be twelve is much more than plenty -
ambitious it seems but why not go for twenty?
Take a breath
or just death.



Line count: 8
Form: Tigerjade - Syllable Count: 3-3-12-12-12-12-3-3,
Rhyme Scheme: a-a-b-b-c-c-d-d
For Promptly Poetry, Week 41
Prompt: Poet’s choice.
Note: “Twee” is an English word defined by Oxford Languages as “excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental.”



© Copyright 2025 Beholden (UN: beholden at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Beholden has granted Writing.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.

Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2249896-Even-Prompter/day/4-17-2023