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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 7, 2022 at 7:45pm
September 7, 2022 at 7:45pm
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Transition

To everyone there comes a point
where mere survival’s not enough,
when cost is greater than the prize
and journey meets its terminus,
the strength in grasping hand weakens,
aches to contemplate its rest,
is tempted by the proffered ease
beyond horizon, no longer far,
sees that lightened sky ahead,
while certainly the dying evening,
is also shot with rays of hope
exceeding all that fed this yearning,
and gripping fingers release their charge,
extending welcome to one’s death.



Line count: 14
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 9 2022
Prompt: Survival.



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