A poem a day keeps the cobwebs off my keyboard. |
| A place for the poetry that I will need to write now that I made a special book for it. |
Snow fell silently while I slept Frost feathered the window frame Icicles gathered width and strength Slushy tracks followed every car, but An avalanche of dreams kept me Frozen in my bed Line Count - 6 Written for Promptmaster (Poem 2)Task Prompt: Write a poem where each line starts the same way. Hint There's a loophole here: The task prompt doesn’t specify how each line must start, so don't think it has to be the same single word! While you can use the same word, you could instead use any letter for each line, punctuation, phrasing, scenery, or even an emotion. |
| It’s nights like this that I miss them, when the shingles shiver in the wind and there are no hands to light a fire. No proud puffs from my chimney spout. The garden is pure mayhem, trees and hedges grow unthinned. I have nothing that realtors desire, No “For Sale” sign, just “Keep Out”. Just between you and me Kids take a lot out of you Running up the stairs Sliding down the bannister It’s nothing but noise and baseballs and broken windows But when they’ve grown and gone When no one calls you “home” When the old folks have died or moved on That’s when you’re truly alone. I suppose one day they’ll condemn, replace me with a row of tidy and trim tiny tract houses for young buyers. I will be forgotten, no doubt. Line count- 21 lines Writen for Promptmaster! Poem 1)Prize Prompt: The thing an abandoned house would most like to talk about. |