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 Poems for years 4, 5 and 6 of the Promptly Poetry Challenge. |
| A year's worth of poems, every week for 52 weeks, spanning 2023 and 2024, plus the years following, from August 2024 to August 2025, 2025 to 2026 (provided I live that long, of course). |
| Snowflake Saturnine is the word that comes to mind - Not that it is necessarily apt Or that it’s the perfect word I find When all my energy is sapped From wrestling with the possibilities Latent in acrostic nightmares. Aware how futile are my pleas, Knowing too the form disturbs my ease, “Enough,” I hasten to declare. Line count: 9 Form: Acrostic, rhymed abab cdccd just for fun. For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 24 Prompt: An acrostic using the word “Snowflake.” |
| Equality Equality is like tomorrow promises much but has to borrow the problem is we’re not the same in being diff’rent there’s no shame. We’re all equipped with special talents they work together to give balance for each of us a diff’rent mould some may be steel but others gold. And force the issue if you will identical thoughts the mould to fill it does not matter how you strive what you create will be the hive. Line count: 12 Rhymed aabb For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 23 Prompt: Equality. |
| Oh Shun the Swirling Ocean Talk about the deep where the nightmare creatures creep and the lights in darkness steeped the pressure upward heaped this place of utter death beyond a final breath where metal walls do sweat and mortal minds so fret their dreaming merely rife with thoughts of air and life. Or savour the relief as buoyed in their belief they rise unto the surface the sun above a furnace the waves in endless motion with sight a healing potion and salt the taste unbidden all sign of shore is hidden and you a cork that bobs a castaway that sobs. Or stand upon the sand now rescued on the land above the waterline and happy that this time the ocean is a sight in pure and limpid light to see and not to be for you are fancy free to dally at the edge a stone upon a ledge. Line count: 30 Rhymed aabb For Promptly Poetry Challenge Week 22, 01.14.26 Prompt: Write a rhyming poem about the ocean without using the word “water”. |
| Dragonfly She hovers over the surface all metallic blue and green shunning a drab camouflage the insect helicopter. Tucked her spindly undercarriage whirring her dragonfly rotors she menaces the shining waters carapaced gunship. Apache blackhawk pretender floating mystery in space she dreams of the duckweed deep nursery of the beast. Line count: 12 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 21 Prompt: Use these words in your poem - dragonfly, mystery, blue. |
| Looking Ahead Heads up concentrate vision pinpointed to the distance one headlight focused at extreme range pool of light in the darkness on we hurtle. Shapes flash peripherally today glimpsed formless in the night and in the mirror yesterday piles its dreams forsaken. Line count: 14 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 20 Prompt: Looking Ahead as the title. Write a poem inspired by it. A minimum of 12 lines is required. |
Invitation Life’s red carpet unfolding and unrolling eternal entrance to the celebration. Line count: 5 Form: Cinquain For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 19 Prompt: Write a cinquain - 5-line poem, Line 1: one word, Line 2: two words, Line 3: three words, Line 4: four words, Line 5: one word. The poet chooses the topic. |
| McVitie’s Chocolate Hobnobs My kingdom, my kingdom for a cookie, and thus I assign, with desperation akin to the third Richard’s, a last flicker of hope that a deal might be struck, a final exit from a stage grown inhospitable. And though cookies are poor mounts for vacating abandoned causes, there is satisfaction at least in the rough honesty of the McVitie’s Hobnob and its solid assertion of good health, while the dipping in chocolate be oxymoron enough - ‘tis worth a last hurrah! Line count: 16 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 18 Prompt: Write a poem about your favorite cookie. The title of your poem should be the name of the cookie. |
| Ode to Winter And if cold be not emotion still it concentrates the mind more powerful than any potion of attention-grabbing kind. When hands are surely frozen and shivers wrack my frame be certain I’ll not have chosen to ponder passion’s fame. When bound in winter’s spell with ice inside my veins you may guarantee full well my mind is pure chilblains. Line count: 12 Rhymed abab For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 17 Prompt: Write a poem personifying whichever emotion you’re predominantly feeling right now. |
| If I Were a Snowflake (Eternity in the Round) Oh, to live forever, my plastic form enshrined in global ecstasy, inspiration I shall find. You’ll not think me pretty, no fancy shape for me, a thousand just the same, no differences you’ll see. But melt I will not ever, my teeming horde aspire, to ride the storm always, a silent gleaming choir. And though my world is tiny, the snow just my pretence, I’ll see the end of time itself, through ages beyond sense. Line count: 16 Rhymed abcb For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 16 Prompt: Use the following title for this week's poem: "If I Were a Snowflake." |
Shoreline Two words setting the scene, with each line adding two, aiming at the total of eight, before the wave retreats by two each time to two. Two too, the wave grows from two to six and eight, spreading on the sands of meter, this constant flow and ebb the breath of seas in twos. Line count: 14 Form: Eintou, seven lines with syllables counting 2-4-6-8-6-4-2, repeated to total 32 syllables in all. For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 15 Prompt: Write an eintou. |
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