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 Book of poems written for the second and third years of the Promptly Poetry Challenge. |
 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. |
| Hymn to the Restorers I watch videos of men repairing cars found abandoned in dusty old barns; these men do not care where they go or how far, classic and aged must be protected from harm. Found abandoned in dusty old barns, the rusty old heaps are dragged from their rest, classic and aged must be protected from harm, home to the workshop to recover their best. The rusty old heaps are dragged from their rest, their engines are tickled and coaxed till they start, home to the workshop to recover their best, electrics and fuel must reach their old hearts. Their engines are tickled and coaxed till they start, There is joy in the eyes at ignition; electrics and fuel must reach their old hearts, the goal of the men is nearing fruition. There is joy in the eyes at ignition, the bodies all washed and polished until clean, the goal of the men is nearing fruition, insides restored and brought to a sheen. So the car is revived and back on the streets, these men do not care where they go or how far, we see on the faces accomplishment sweet, I watch videos of men repairing cars. Line count: 24 Form: Pantoum For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 29 2023 Prompt: The pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming ABAB in which the second and fourth lines of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme as BCBC, CDCD. The first line of the series recurs as the last line of the closing quatrain, and the third line of the poem recurs as the second line of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA. Note: I cannot resist including a link to just one video by my favourite restorer, a man who goes by the nickname of Mustie1. I must warn you on two counts - it is long (restoring old cars is not the work of a moment) and highly addictive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1_Obz8aDOw&t=5231s |
| Eternal Round The fields of the past, dark with the sun departed, still tilled as these moments last, the old reaping what they started. The present a teeming city, habitat now of the young, ever bright and oh so pretty, before the instant turns to dung. Eyes are turning now in hope to the future yet unborn, to better times our hands do grope; pray our dreams are not forlorn. Line count: 12 Form: Quatrains For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 28 2023 Prompt: Write a poem about the past, present, future, in that order. Three quatrains, twelve lines. |
| Candlelight Oh, candlelight, bright speck rigid upright in the draughtless dark, hero of a million romantic dinners, saviour in a multitude of power cuts, icon of an eerie, nightmare Halloween, beacon of a hundred Scrooges led to bed, trendy, fat and flavoured emblem of the New Age, so, even now, your dated, homely essence haunts our modern dreams of night, and I am left without inspiration on some new, unremarked aspect of your being. ‘Cept maybe this, a sudden thought, olfactory memory to the rescue, as I terminate your tiny flame - and there it is, so familiar to us all, that burnt smell of the smoke that is your death. Line count: 16 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 27 2023 Prompt: Candlelight. |
| A Naani With Your Naan Bread Brief statements Precise and taut with meaning Send the truth As an arrow to the soul. Line count: 4 Form: Naani - four lines, a total of 20 to 25 syllables. For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 26 2023 Prompt: Naani. Note: I think I should point out that the examples given in the link supplied do not meet the criteria for naanis. None of them has as many as 20 syllables. In discussion with Andrea, we have come to the conclusion that they are literal translations (and badly at that since they don’t make much sense) without regard for syllable counts. Not complaining, just pointing it out so that others don’t become confused. |
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