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Printed from https://web1.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2227002-Random-Acts-of-Poetry/day/1-7-2025
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Rated: 13+ · Book · Emotional · #2227002

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.
January 7, 2025 at 6:13am
January 7, 2025 at 6:13am
#1082084

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.
January 7, 2025 at 6:08am
January 7, 2025 at 6:08am
#1082083
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.


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