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Rated: 13+ · Book · Cultural · #2299350

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).
January 14, 2026 at 4:11pm
January 14, 2026 at 4:11pm
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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”.
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