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Printed from https://web1.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2299350-Promptly-4-5-and-6/day/10-27-2025
Rated: 13+ · Book · Cultural · #2299350

Poems for years 4, 5 and 6 of the Promptly Poetry Challenge.

A year's worth of poems, every week for 52 weeks, spanning 2023 and 2024, plus the years following, from August 2024 to August 2025, 2025 to 2026 (provided I live that long, of course).
October 27, 2025 at 1:48pm
October 27, 2025 at 1:48pm
#1100268
For Jonathan

My friend he lives in old Cape Town,
far off in southern hemisphere,
and so, for us, heโ€™s upside down.

As kids we grew in Africa -
savanna heat donโ€™t turn him brown,
too blond and pink to ever tan.

So now it really makes me frown
that heโ€™s down there and I am here,
toes all iced in a northern town.



Line count: 9
Form: Magic 9
For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 8
Prompt: Magic 9 - Nine lines with the last word of each line rhyming with the scheme abacadaba.


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