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Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2249896-Even-Prompter/day/11-5-2022
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 5, 2022 at 3:44pm
November 5, 2022 at 3:44pm
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Poet’s Lament

Untitled document
a blank page
emptiness awaiting subject
a pristine monument
silent stage
a play with no first act bedecked.

Here’s to the uninspired
the blank mind
so vast in vacant thought
without a notion fired
bard gone blind
all sparks have flown, all battles fought.

This then my heartless foe
write or die
so goes his cruel insistence clear
though streams of nothing flow
(hear me cry)
it’s of nothing I write, I fear.



Line count: 18
Form: Tri-fall
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 17
Prompt: Tri-fall, consisting of three 6-line stanzas, for a total of 18 lines. The rhyme scheme is a,b,c,/a,b,c, and the syllable count for each stanza is as follows: 6/3/8, 6/3/8. This form requires little to no punctuation and can be written on any subject matter.



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