Promptly 4, 5 and 6 (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/2299350 Cardinal Ah cardinal unafraid your bright red suit advertisement of presence bold to predator and friend a crimson splash on winterâs cloak so pure pristine a challenge stark above your station. No wonder then you go black-masked a lingering doubt in hunterâs aim. Line count 14 Free verse For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 43 Prompt: A cardinal. ...[Read Full Post] Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:36:57 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1117761 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1117761 Tuesday On a day like this starkly bright with unshuttered sun eyes aching in the heat and winter-dry bones sucking in the warmth the sky empty of all but blue my skin shrivels between pain and pleasure All is still till a breath of movement stirs the air a moment of cool relief and herald of noisy other life senses now awake and conscious of police siren on the freeway horizon the afternoon reels ...[Read Full Post] Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:12:07 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1117404 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1117404 Massachusetts May 30 Yesterday brought a distant boom, perhaps the crack of doom, that shook the room in gloom. Mushroom? Or pendulum? But meteors presumed - âPerhaps some other day,â I fume. Line count: 8 Form: Pendulum - Syllables 8,6,4,2,2,4,6,8; rhymed aabbccdd For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 41 Prompt: None. ...[Read Full Post] Sun, 31 May 2026 10:56:17 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1116785 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1116785 Celebration Table on the rug lemonade in jug glug glug Cup cakes in your face presents all in place lace pace Tulips in the vase banners striped and bars Marathon and Mars Party now is ready times of joy and heady balance not so steady Line count: 12 Rhymed aaa bbb For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 40 Prompt: Picture of table with lemonade and cup cakes, gifts and flowers. ...[Read Full Post] Mon, 18 May 2026 09:04:21 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1115964 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1115964 An Early Summer Sitting in the sunshine the bright and clamorous sunshine of unpredictable May when summer mistakes itself and arrives too soon so veined and wrinkled skin a salt dry lake is steeped in search of vitamin D perhaps a touch of colour while the heat penetrates deep warming the soul and consolation for the winter long a sentence revoked. We wriggle in unaccustomed warmth so welcome yet edged with pain aged ...[Read Full Post] Sun, 17 May 2026 10:40:31 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1115904 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1115904 Elegy for Today The AI man doth hawk his wares, untouched by human hand, he swears, and, truth be told, its sell by dateâs a pleasing touch but awful late, with chemical fragrance for the nose, though here again he scorns the rose, and thatâs not all - the grocerâs stall is filled with produce from the mall, not raised by Giles on the farm, mixed instead by chemistâs arm, and, though it may be labelled meat, itâs made of bugs an...[Read Full Post] Sun, 10 May 2026 10:38:03 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1115474 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1115474 Marvin Iâll tell you the story of Marvin the Shiftless, so pay close attention and youâll be my witness; if itâs character you want then heâs the most shifty, so completely sans shift that heâs nowhere near nifty. That shifty look in his eye is a dead giveaway, he might be here today but soon gone away. Itâs so rare for him to settle down and not to lurk; perhaps heâd do better if he changed to shift work. And now as we watch him ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:36:43 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1114776 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1114776 Downtown Downtownâs a word American to me a song by Petula Clark. Do better, I think, Chuck Berry can and Billy Joel will make you hark. Of uptown girls he is a-singing, just give the feller a decent listen. The piano man is always winging, up or down his townâs not missinâ. Plenty of songs are about the city, too many to mention right here, but all are by reputation pretty - no country music here. Line count: 12 Rhymed abab ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:37:21 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1114049 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1114049 What Rhymes With Loop? Loop Poetry is a poetry form created by Hellon - Hellon Wheels I presume in trepidation - Trepidation because Iâm at the beginning, Beginning what may end in desperation. I dislike repetition at the best of times; Times out of mind Iâve called it word games. Games to fit some pointless patterns. Patterns arbitrary and best consigned to flames. I do it purely because I need the exercise; Exercise brings str...[Read Full Post] Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:38:36 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113359 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113359 They Also Compose Who Only Stand and Mumble Poetâs choice was the prompt. I looked it up on Google. Its only rhyme was "swamped,â I might as well blow a bugle. I took a peek at the others, ideas were my only druthers. Lady Fyn was riding a dragon, and I was needing a wagon. Amethyst was talking of rubies, while I felt more like a booby. Sox was speaking about patients, still my ideas were only latent. WakeUp was waxing political b...[Read Full Post] Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:34:36 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113059 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1113059