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Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2299350-Promptly-4-5-and-6/day/1-7-2026
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 7, 2026 at 3:01pm
January 7, 2026 at 3:01pm
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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.


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