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. |
| 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. |