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.
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.”
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