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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. |
| Brevette butter s p r e a d s bread Line count: 3 Brevette form For Promptly Poetry, Week 47 Prompt: Brevette, subject (noun), verb, and object (noun), in this exact order. The verb should show an ongoing action. This is done by spacing out the letters in the verb. There are only three words in the poem. |
| A Decided Argument What is it that, with certainty, we know has wings that fills enchanted ear with what it sings, that holds expected dreams of places far, and promises delights beyond all earthly mar? A bird you say, and yes, you may be right, it meets all these and flutters in our sight, sings upon the branch its songs of flight, of the steaming south and star-filled night. Yet angels, too, fulfil our stated attributes, their voices pure and never are they mute, with heavenly light they fill the empty sky and speak of what awaits us all on high. But now the bard awakes and bids us nay, delay decision until he’s had his say, and we should listen for he’s known as sage, what answers all these quests is just the stage. Line count: 16 Rhymed couplets For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 46 Prompt: Wings. |
 Monkey Puzzle All monkeys boast and flaunt their prowess in the trees; there is, however, one that taunts and brings them to their knees. This, being called the Monkey Puzzle, has spikes on limbs and trunk, so boasting monkeys now are muzzled and lofty claims are shrunk. I knew one once in tropic climes a stately, evergreen friend, and though each leaf was sharpened tine, its shade would welcome send. Line count: 12 Rhymed abab For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 45 Prompt: Plants. It's not necessary to use the word plants, but you must name a plant or flower in your poem. |
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. |
 Fast Flowers Felicity, the mobile florist, delivers on the run, on the beach or in the forest, and always dressed to stun. Flower power for every hour, at sea or by the river, down a mine or up a tower, she’s ever ready to deliver. She needs no shop nor stall, has flowers for her clothes, gathered before she calls, spreads seeds where’er she goes. Flowers for every occasion, in sprays and wreaths and bunch, both local and Eurasian, for weddings and for lunch. Line count: 16 Rhymed abab For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 43 Prompt: As per illustration. |
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