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.
O
by the
bank of the
somnolent Thames
way down south where the breeze is sweet
I sat for a while in the shade of a willow
that trailed its tendrils in the waters
as angling for a bumper crop
of the silver stickleback
hiding from the frowning pike
flashing of sides in the rippling tide
and the sun-dappled grass ‘neath the leaves
nature’s secrets
revealed
in my
I
Line count: 16
Free verse in six-pointed star shape
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 44 2023
Prompt: Shape poetry.
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