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Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2249896-Even-Prompter/day/11-15-2022
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.
November 15, 2022 at 11:57am
November 15, 2022 at 11:57am
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Pain Decides

It’s the change in attitude,
vertical to horizontal,
a matter for gratitude,
even though full frontal,

these pains from every muscle
make rising such a tussle,
as old age tests the bounds,
new limitations found

by protests from the body
at movement slightly shoddy
or maybe just too fast.
If ability’s to last,

rein in impetuous wish,
be satisfied with this;

it’s pain will teach you how
to navigate the maze
from bed to upright now,
turn mornings into days.

Be happy you’re not broken
for pain its rules has spoken.



Line count: 20
Rhymed abab ccdd eeff gg hihi jj (it’s a pattern of sorts)
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 19
Prompt: Pain.


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