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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.
August 30, 2022 at 11:15am
August 30, 2022 at 11:15am
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Spring Gogyohka

The ice melts
a slow procession of translucent drops
hanging for a moment above the precipice
before the suicidal plunge
to the glistening stone



Line count: 5
Gogyohka form
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 8
Prompt: The Gogyohka form - a five-line poem with one phrase per line.
Note: After examining several examples, I can find no consistent guide to punctuation and have chosen to adopt the most common form - no punctuation apart from the initial capital. Also, several examples use a single word as a line, as if it constitutes a phrase. Strictly speaking, this is not correct, the phrase being defined by the OED as “a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause”. I have tried to adhere to this in my gogyohka.



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