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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.
September 28, 2022 at 12:44pm
September 28, 2022 at 12:44pm
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A man stands in a sliver of light, a wall behind him.


The Narrow Way

Caught in the crevasse of life,
the crack ever narrowing,
thin sliver of light illuminating,
between the vaults of darkness.

The past a wall behind us,
return is barred forever,
the sun merely rebounding
off memory’s flat surface.

Forward now the last remaining choice,
onward as the fissure shrinks,
slabs of silence either side,
until slammed shut in closure.



Line count: 12
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 12 2022
Prompt: As per illustration.


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