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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.
April 12, 2023 at 11:40am
April 12, 2023 at 11:40am
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Shadows

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
1 Corinthians 13:12

What then of these shadows,
stretched long in the sharp angles
of the evening of days,
warped and twisted
by the ripple in the glass
of a world gone mad?

Shall these empty echoes
spring to life as though inspired
by some oasis in the dark?
No, it’s not as if they’re dead,
and there’s no revival
in mimicry of the living.



Line count: 12
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 40 2023
Prompt: Shadow(s).



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