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. |
| 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. |