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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). |
| Tortilla! A wonderful thing the tortilla, no matter what the filler - tacos, burritos, quesadillas, others if you are bolder, all depends on how you fold her. Line count: 5 Rhymed aaabb, 25 words For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 51 Prompt: Write a poem that is no more than 25 words long. |
| Mystery Novelist A locked door that was free before, a hidden key lost in eternity. A secret kept from all who slept, a veiled answer and necromancer. A map in code shows the fabled road, and thus the way the mystery pays. Line count: 12 Rhymed aabb For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 50 Prompt: A locked door. |
| Okay, I’ll Choose One Opera I do not love, opera I learned to hate; it seemed to me a trifle rough and on my nerves did grate. By chance I came upon, in YouTube session former, a song of songs, a wondrous song - I discovered Nessun Dorma. It’s opera I hear you say and I would not deny, but beauty lives in several ways and this song touches sky. Line count: 12 Rhymed abab For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 49 Prompt: Write about a song you love. |
| Seven Seven syllables per line, not essential that they rhyme, and seven lines to finish, your chances won’t diminish. Just keep counting that’s the way, so I’ll be the last to say, versifying’s done today. Line count: 7 Rhymed aabbccc For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 48 Prompt: Seven syllables, seven lines. |
 Table Picasso and Braque Cubists extraordinaire Paint celebration Geometric profusion Rectangles and squares Circles and frosting ovate. The flat board of delight Cupcakes of pastel Triangles flagging Flowers of still life Refreshing the lemons Presenting the cubes. Line count: 12 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 47 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Waiting Room Choose a seat and sit down back against the wall defensive the waiting room earns its name and now you’re caught unknown forces debate your fate and you await the call. Look around but never linger don’t stare at others waiting glances must not meet watch the clock ceilings are good especially if panelled there’s silence there a place to rest the eye. A clock on the wall with second hand ticking through the moments identical its circular journey excuse to stare long after noting the time. Just as the hands need placement so the eyes move on you know the scene you check your fellow sufferers as the summoned depart suddenly energised with fresh hope a subtle countdown to hasten your turn. You’re a fortress isolate upon a peak distant, unmoved, bearing the weight of time unaffected by the world while your mind seeks change anything that moves and still you’re still defenses up and fortified against eternal time slowing to a crawl. Line count: 40 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 46 Prompt: Write about the feelings you experience or things you notice while waiting for something. |
| Touch A light breeze ruffles the hairs on my forearm I feel each one move a tree in the forest, bending, swaying glad of the cooling influence of the air Just as the wind sweeps through the wheatfield bending the gold in waves and I grasp the seedhead of one crush it in my fingers to scatter Like seabirds landing to rest in the sea riding the billows of the deep and beckoning fishers from afar while I cling to the rough rigging rope. Line count: 12 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 45 Prompt: Select one of the five senses, then write a poem about it. |
| Minute Poems Poems produced in a minute, not infinite but very short, a fleeting thought. Poems so small but not minute, they blow my flute and so my song won’t last too long. Poems that measure the angle, not new fangled, less than degree, a minute be. Line count: 12 Form: Minute For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 44 Prompt: Write a minute poem - 12 lines of 60 syllables written in strict iambic meter, three stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables, rhymed aabb, ccdd, eeff. |
 Point of View Sand castles in the air and dust storms on the way dreams make weather fair but life will make us pay. Happy endings abound sometimes they really do too often they rebound when all is told and through. Some will hope for colour try always for the best pessimist world’s duller but outlasts all the rest. Line count: 12 Rhymed abab For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 43 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Sound What is that whistling sound that I hear? Like an electrical hum of machinery; I’m unable to say if it’s distant or near, it might even be part of the scenery. Not a hum or a buzz, a hiss or a tune, it is white noise with no corners or reason - constant and yet shy, it inhabits the room, without crescendo, it wants no completion. The other sounds bleached and cast from my ear while this monotonous sound becomes rife; not conditioning air nor inspiring fear, I know it at last - it’s the rhythm of life. Line count: 12 Rhymed abab For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 42 Prompt: Listen. What’s the most prominent sound you hear? Write about it. |
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