Promptly 4, 5, 6 and 7 (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/2299350 Fall Windfall October and the first cold bite of coming winter nips at my skin as I rise reluctantly for the day; I stand a moment wondering whether itâs time for the old denim jacket thatâs served so well through other autumns and indecisive spring. Iâll do it and I shrug it on, as snug fit as ever was, its familiar grasp brings last year to mind, not so bad for the cold northeast - Iâve known worse - this may do for the fall at leas...[Read Full Post] Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:40:03 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1127198 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1127198 Parsnip Parsnip, parsnip, needing butter, It is the taste I have acquired, These the words I heard him mutter, Parsnip, parsnip, needing butter. I was not born inside the gutter And this is all I have desired Parsnip, parsnip, needing butter, It is the taste I have acquired. Line count: 8 Form: Triolet For Promptly Poetry Challenge 7, Week 7 Prompt: Triolet. A Triolet is a poetic form c...[Read Full Post] Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:15:14 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126390 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126390 Puzzle Here I set my clues before you, masked as bandit, clear as dew, tantalise your mind with feather, seek to stay unknown forever. Scattered bits of hints and hooks, shy as pony, bold as looks, seductively suggest an answer, careful now, Iâm such a dancer. Enter then my labyrinth, maybe dog rose, hyacinth, catch me with your gifted mind, satisfaction you might find. Line count: 12 Rhyming...[Read Full Post] Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:57:23 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1125656 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1125656 [Image #2365543] Empire We built high in those tropic climes ceilings soaring into cool darkness high above as we crouched below hidden from the heat sweltering in the bright daylight of beyond. Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun and that excuse at least sufficient comfort as we dream of home on a different shore. Those pillared halls sweet mockery of forest glades and s...[Read Full Post] Sun, 20 Sep 2026 10:51:03 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1124904 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1124904 homage à e e cummings now inside the autumn of our years the days are short and lean in fading light the earth prepares with memory of winters past and bitter winds in mind the fire burns down to glowing embers those far off times of blazing youth now spent in spitting flame and fiery spark so brief a dream of strength and purpose died low at last to quiet contemplation the bonfire of lives tamped down and cold as thoughts turn b...[Read Full Post] Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:11:00 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1123699 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1123699 Dreamerâs Desire Perchance to dream in poesy in fairyland of fantasy, where words are sweet upon our lips and gentle rain upon us drips, the breath of far and mythic seas to us it seems thus wafted near and bathed our souls, perchance to dream. Let fade this world of daily toil with daily fret our lives to foil; release our bonds so minds can thrive, imagination brought alive. All daily cares are put behind and from us hurled, ...[Read Full Post] Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:10:57 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1123254 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1123254 Nine Nine Nine Three nines are twenty-seven, dressed to the nines three times; there are easier ways to enter heaven than finding so many rhymes. Multiplication is all very well, divide and conquer much less; quantum mechanics is no way to tell, and none of them Porgy and Bess. Here in the States weâre talking of math but maths is the subject elsewhere. in Yorkshire they may call it a path, but single or plural who cares? ...[Read Full Post] Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:28:05 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1121806 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1121806 I Know About Water âItâs dehydration,â he says, my urologist named Jez, and he demands that I drink more water than would fill the sink. âImpossible, I canât do that,â I cry, but, you know me, I have to try. How much is three litres I wonder, Iâm drowning already and going under. Divide and conquer, thatâs how to do it, it has to be done or one day Iâll rue it. So coffee will count and Iâll add some tea, donât give up Coke, I have to b...[Read Full Post] Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:44:03 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1121570 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1121570 A Happy Ending Thereâll be no sunset to ride into, itâll not be a matter of derring-do; no golden words or fragrant flowers, no stirring music for the final hours. I see it as a sigh of blessed relief, with time exposed as a vagrant thief and unhallowed days of long ago revealed at last as rather shallow. When all comes down to one more breath, goodbye to life, hello to death, with this I swear Iâll be content, the smile upo...[Read Full Post] Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:38:03 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1121224 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1121224 Quickened How longâs a moment, a slice of time, a generous scoop, or a pinch so fine? And happiness too, a great guffaw, or content warm, no loud hurrah? But sudden instant or lifetime long, to walk with Godâs the happiest song. Line count: 12 Rhymed abcb For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 51 Prompt: Write about a moment when you felt very happy. ...[Read Full Post] Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:45:31 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1120947 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1120947