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Prompt: (verb) to move to action Promptly: (adverb) : very quickly or immediately Poetry: a form of writing that no one ever reads |
I remember August, its spikes of brown grass scratching and stabbing between my toes. I remember the crabapple, how it seized my cheeks in a pucker so I hucked it at the tree trunk. I remember the circle dripping juice and flesh fresh on wrinkled bark - the mark of summer alliances. I remember a circle of kings. A council holding court sitting on tree limbs and surveying our sunny kingdom, ruling by divine right of Summer. Written for "Promptly Poetry Challenge (2025-2026)" ![]() Round 6 Week 1 Prompt/Week # 1 Title your poem: I Remember and then write a poem about a memory, real or imagined. |
two hundred million miles and nothing in the space between speeding in your godship spinning in protective hibernation far from the discomfort of “how was your day?” and “should we move to Fresno?” no decisions about dinner or furniture or about us no trying to fill the space between two lost souls whose hearts fail to launch leaving only the empty space in the place between here and Mars Written for Promptly Poetry 5 Week 52 Prompt - The title of your poem should be The Place In Between |