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 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. |
| Promises Promises, stuck like dry flour at the back of the throat, nagging and niggling, while procrastination balks at duty multiplied. Promises, freely given, careless castoffs of the moment, rash essays to gallantry, now transformed to coercion self inflicted. Promises, once bright and shining, in youth so promising, now worn and tarnished, fulfilled as only promises. Line count: 18 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 16 Prompt: Promises. |
| Clues to Existence René Descartes once said, “I think, therefore I am.” Now quiet as a clam, no thinking from the dead. Some say that, if we be, the result is we do, or to do is to be, or do be do be do. Also, if you ask me, and to answer I’m free, I would like to please you but I haven’t a clue. Line count: 12 Rhymed abba cdcd eeff (which I claim as an entirely new scheme and dub the Mama Mia form) For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 15 Prompt: Clues. |
| I Intended to Write a Serious Limerick but Ran out of Time There once was a young man who proved time, being only pretense and a mime, could be molded like clay so that words like “today” could mean something entirely sublime. Line count: 5 Limerick For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 14 Prompt: Limerick. |
| Choices Like tree roots, the future takes its possibilities, endlessly bifurcating, twisting, bending, spreading, into the darkness of what might never be, or wished for anything but, and we are left with choices slipping through our hands, so many different paths, no light upon the way, but choose, decide, fate prepares the new, and blind we stumble forward, onward to the end. Line count: 14 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 13 2022 Prompt: Choices. |
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