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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).
July 27, 2025 at 3:34pm
July 27, 2025 at 3:34pm
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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.
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