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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.
July 26, 2022 at 8:49am
July 26, 2022 at 8:49am
#1035709
No Taxis

No taxis in this game,
don’t waste your time,
unless you are famous
with money for ghosts,
or maybe field marshall
with memoirs unwritten,
or political hack
with excuses to make.

There’s a reason, you know,
a writer’s life is called
auto-biography.
If you don’t have a car,
then you just have to walk,
you can’t wait in the street
for a car labelled WRITER.
Sorry, no taxis in this game.


Line count: 16
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 3 2022
Prompt: Photograph of taxis in a busy street.
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July 18, 2022 at 9:27am
July 18, 2022 at 9:27am
#1035347
Damp

morning frog dew sheened
grass sparkling in the new sun
mist cloaks the bright pond


Lines count: 3
Haiku
For Promptly Poetry 3, Week 2
Prompt: Haiku.
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July 11, 2022 at 11:49am
July 11, 2022 at 11:49am
#1035031
This is the first of the poems for the third year of the Promptly Poetry Challenge, 2022/2023

Andrea

Handed, without fanfare, like an unexpected unbirthday gift,
to replace a life worn with weak decisions and drifting,
I turn the choice over in my hands, inspecting, fearful,
dreading yet suddenly aware that I can do this thing,
that all my intent has always been to tear this brown paper,
wrapped around so unlikely and, certainly, undeserved a chance
beyond my heart’s desire, unidentified in a soul trained
to the endurance of the vagaries of fate and ambition.

I cast my future to the winds of belief in the one who calls,
whose spirit reassures me that life can still be lived,
that our desperate, defensive courtship can win the prize
in the final hour and we can be together. ‘Tis well with us.


Line count: 12
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry 3, Week 1 07.11.22
Prompt: A person who changed your life.
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