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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).
February 23, 2026 at 11:07am
February 23, 2026 at 11:07am
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A Villanelle

Amelia reads The Soldier by Rupert Brook,
a poem that says much of how I feel -
I suggest you take the time and look.

And yes, my England’s darker like the rook,
but love of country still the deepest deal -
Amelia reads The Soldier by Rupert Brook.

Enchanting forested glade and hidden nook
held dear as well as industrial wheel -
I suggest you take the time and look.

Though foreign climes hold me (away I’m took),
the scars of absence within will never heal -
Amelia reads The Soldier by Rupert Brook.

Now the evening approaches with shepherd’s crook,
still my thoughts to England ever steal -
I suggest you take the time and look.

The final chapter in my wandering book,
my heart they’ll find far beyond anneal.
Amelia reads The Soldier by Rupert Brook,
I suggest you take the time and look.


Line count: 19
Form: Villanelle
For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 28
Prompt: Write a villanelle.
Note: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0z_j6JMJ28U .
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February 19, 2026 at 11:35am
February 19, 2026 at 11:35am
#1108791
Reflection on Copeland’s Drumming

In these latter years,
when the future dwindles to unlikely,
I still find I’m singing
the songs of long ago.

Within this aged frame,
where worlds collide and battle,
with digital dreams losing out,
while memories dazzle,

the clock may rule the bounds
of space and time,
and I am always subject to its tyrannies,
I hear yet the beat of another age.


Line count: 12
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 27
Prompt: Write a poem using at least 3 of these words: clock, dwindle, dazzle, frame, collide, singing.
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February 10, 2026 at 10:26am
February 10, 2026 at 10:26am
#1108022
Living Room

It’s no longer home,
this darkened room
with so many uses
and schizophrenic -
sometime living room,
a place to sleep,
and thoroughfare,
but always study.

Though others use it
as they may,
it’s ever mine,
yet owned by none,
a faceless host
of another world
of digital life
that I call home.


Line count: 16
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 26
Prompt: Write a poem describing the room around you.
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February 2, 2026 at 12:49pm
February 2, 2026 at 12:49pm
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At Close of Day

It is expected that we fight to stay,
to stand at bay as the evening shadows
gather in the rays of our dying day
and suffer the final slings and arrows.

And yet I am not moved bravely to say
that I will battle to the last with you,
a mercenary still and wanting pay,
as if the war did not concern me too.

The temptation being to say thee nay,
so to end the burdens and the striving,
because so desperate has been this way,
toward an end my exhaustion driving.


Line count: 12
Rhymed abab
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 25
Prompt: Use these words in your poem, Day, Way, Say, Stay, Bay, Pay.
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