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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. |
 Gannet Birds, you say? And what a twittering, hooting, gaggling crowd that comprises. Not easy to choose in that squabbling, fluttering mess. But here’s one, a favourite, a smooth feller of muted colours and fine gradations, yet starkly picked out in black on head and wingtips. A sour expression surmounted by an angry, glaring blue eye and hard he may be, being a bird of the ocean wastes, inured by life in that vast and pitiless expanse to the wing-tucked and aerodynamic plunge from on high to the dark depths and a cold meal of silvered fish. Not one for sentiment he, and ready to fight at the end of a long and arduous flight for a patch of rock on a cliff face of some lonely, storm-battered isle where a thousand others seek a nesting. No fear has he of this life of struggle, of the icy waters of these northern seas or the winds that tear at his precarious foothold on land; ‘tis all he knows and, if truth be known, there’s beauty in more than his soft, white colours and clear-etched face. His dragon eye has looked and sneered at death. Line count: 27 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 21 2022 Prompt: Birds. |
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