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).
Thank you, Charles's Cauldron π. I've contested the Charlie Chaplin thing a couple of times, won once, if I remember correctly. But it's the kind of thing I try when bored and have nothing better to do - just doesn't seem to have happened lately.
Was I ever twenty-five?
That youthful age when the world was young
with such passions and dreams
and life seemed endless and exciting
certainty being my constant companion
and answers to all the worldβs problems
in my pocket while eternity
whispered in my ear
and I only ever wanted more
unconscious of the passing years
but satisfied with nothing.
Three times that age and more
I have what I hungered for
and wonder where the taste
of those vibrant years has gone
too short to savour, lost in the wind
and all I have is memory
and thoughts turning elsewhere.
Line count: 18
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge 6, Week 3
Prompt: In celebration of WdC's 25th Anniversary, write a poem involving the number 25 or a birthday/anniversary celebration.
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