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Printed from https://web1.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2299350-Promptly-4-and-5/day/6-22-2025
Rated: 13+ · Book · Cultural · #2299350

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

A year's worth of poems, every week for 52 weeks, spanning 2023 and 2024, plus the year following, from August 2024 to August 2025 (provided I live that long, of course).
June 22, 2025 at 10:45am
June 22, 2025 at 10:45am
#1092020
Touch

A light breeze ruffles the hairs on my forearm
I feel each one move
a tree in the forest, bending, swaying
glad of the cooling influence of the air

Just as the wind sweeps through the wheatfield
bending the gold in waves
and I grasp the seedhead of one
crush it in my fingers to scatter

Like seabirds landing to rest in the sea
riding the billows of the deep
and beckoning fishers from afar
while I cling to the rough rigging rope.



Line count: 12
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 45
Prompt: Select one of the five senses, then write a poem about it.


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