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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.
May 9, 2023 at 10:55am
May 9, 2023 at 10:55am
#1049388
Six Points to my Star

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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