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Rated: 13+ · Book · Emotional · #2225590

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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
August 24, 2025 at 6:29am
August 24, 2025 at 6:29am
#1095853
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)Open in new Window.

Round 6 Week 1

Prompt/Week # 1


Title your poem:

I Remember

and then write a poem about a memory, real or imagined.
August 5, 2025 at 5:44am
August 5, 2025 at 5:44am
#1094738
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


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