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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. |
| Hoot Owl Hoot owl on the wing, silent in the night, searching dark places, innocents abroad, secret rodent prey, added to the hoard, downy nestlings wait, all of one accord. Named for whispered death, feathered Damocles, dark-robed she races, hunger on her breath, murder in her heart, stealthiest Macbeth, nature’s sharpened sword, nightly her reward. Line count: 16 Form: Octameter For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 38 2023 Prompt: Topic poet’s choice, form Octameter - 16 lines divided into two stanzas of 8 lines each. Each line has a syllable count of 5. The set rhyme scheme is: a/b/c/d/e/d/f/d g/h/c/g/i/g/d/d. |
| A Short History of the Failed Artist “How about law?” he asks, all smiles, ”Good grief no,” I answer without a thought. “Then what about roads, you could go miles?” “No chance of that, I’ll take the courts.” Which is how I began my seven years in law, deceased estates, insolvencies and company liquidations, armed only with a ballpoint pen clamped in my claw, and recycled paper to record my ministrations. This happenstance led me to discover the creative possibilities of my supplies, Bic and paper combining hand in glover to find a style of complete surprise. Soft yet coarse, the paper sang, gently caressed by faithful pen, complications contained by drawing hand in shaded line and visual zen. In complexity the drawings grew from year to year as my skill increased, until the day it became quite screwed, I dared not go on - in case it ceased. I left the law and its art supplies, changed countries, jobs and circumstance, turning back to writing seemed so wise, still pen and paper the tools of chance. Line count: 24 Rhymed abab For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 37 2023 Prompt: Your poem should be inspired and include these words: pen, paper. |
  Security A house of stone, secure and safe, and she alone, a rescued waif, forever drawn to gaze beyond the spreading lawn and sparkling pond, to woods afar, horizons deep, and evening star, her dreams to keep; the window now a lonely gift, reminder how the deepened rift between her fear and coddled life is payment drear for ended strife. Line count: 20 Rhymed abab For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 36 2023 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Leprechaun The leprechaun’s a slipp’ry feller, he’s always green but never yeller; when caught and brought into the fold, he’ll take yer to his pot o’ gold. Line count: 4 Form: Clerihew - two couplets rhymed aabb For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 35 2023 Prompt: Write a poem using the Clerihew form about a leprechaun. |
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