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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. |
| Spring Gogyohka The ice melts a slow procession of translucent drops hanging for a moment above the precipice before the suicidal plunge to the glistening stone Line count: 5 Gogyohka form For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 8 Prompt: The Gogyohka form - a five-line poem with one phrase per line. Note: After examining several examples, I can find no consistent guide to punctuation and have chosen to adopt the most common form - no punctuation apart from the initial capital. Also, several examples use a single word as a line, as if it constitutes a phrase. Strictly speaking, this is not correct, the phrase being defined by the OED as “a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause”. I have tried to adhere to this in my gogyohka. |
| Bagpipes Bagpipes make me cry, indeed I know not why; it’s not because I hate their sound or cos it grates. The truth is I just love the drones that rise above, their voice so wild and high from glen unto the sky. ‘Tis British pride that drives the teardrops from my eyes, it’s pleasure in the sigh and guilt since boys don’t cry. Line count: 12 Rhymed couplets For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 7 Prompt: A guilty pleasure. |
   Saplings Come thou now, my little sprigs, though thee no more than tiny twigs, upward now thou must aspire to mount up ever higher and higher. The sun above will draw thee on, his light thy leaves will shine upon, and tall thy crown in upper air to drink thou from its favours fair. Ramrod straight, go seek blue sky on high where mighty eagles fly, lofty now thy ambition’s goal, felled and made a telegraph pole. Line count: 12 Rhymed couplets For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 6 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Hope Hope springs eternal yet oft forgot, of all our evils once released as curses on our unhappy lot, unholy tally of woes increased, now freed of bonds from box Pandora, to travel far, infecting all with sin, ensuring that we can’t ignore her, yet one redeeming grace was in that box where all was stored within, a gentle comforter remained our faint resistance to underpin. Its name is Hope, virtue regained. Line count: 12 Rhymed abab For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 4 Prompt: Hope. |
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