A Dig at the Knave
I go underground for the answer
Spend days on conservative sites
Arguments articulate
Their concerns and beliefs
But nothing explains
The reason they
Endorse that
Pompous
Ass
This nonet is a response to the Daily Post/Daily Prompt on WordPress – underground.
Nonet ~ a poem of nine lines and a syllable pattern of 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, with rhyme optional
No Reply
Pen to paper, such a simple act
The sincerity of your thoughts
Sent in response to my own
I wait for your letter
But the darkness grows
As time goes by
Without a
Single
Word
This nonet is my response to Sue Vincent’s (Daily Echo) Thursday Photo Prompt – Glimpsed #writephoto, with her photo. (I saw a mail slot.)
Nonet ~ a poem of nine lines and a syllable pattern of 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, with rhyme optional
Relay of Fire
War drums echoed the clamor of clouds
Calling to arms all able men
Signal sent in ancient times
Old rivals always lurk
Danger at our door
Swifter response
Is needed
Light the
Fire
This nonet is my response to Sue Vincent’s (Daily Echo) Thursday Photo Prompt – Beacon #writephoto, with her photo.
Nonet ~ a poem of nine lines and a syllable pattern of 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, with rhyme optional
Wide Open
Once indomitable, fortress-strong
The wall that surrounded my heart
Until you entered my life
Now a mere reminder
Of my life before
You came to me
And the gates
Opened
Wide
This nonet is my response to Sue Vincent’s (Daily Echo) Thursday Photo Prompt – Gate – #writephoto, with her photo.
Nonet ~ a poem of nine lines and a syllable pattern of 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, with rhyme optional
Caveman
Eyes dark, you sulk and brood with a scowl
Expecting all the world to care
About your petty problems
When no one notices
Your empty bottle
Or cares as you
Crawl on back
To your
Cave
My response to Sue Vincent’s (Daily Echo) Thursday Photo Prompt – Cave – #writephoto, with her photo, is a nonet.
Once again, my imagination takes over, as I see a drunk’s face, chin on the table, staring into the empty bottle in his outstretched arms. Okay, so there’s no bottle, but I’m pretty sure the rest of it is there.
Nonet ~ a poem of nine lines and a syllable pattern of 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, with rhyme optional
Chaste
With the turn of a key, confined now
Within my gaol of chastity
Last light filters through the bars
Father’s one concession
Our last, parting kiss
My lover’s face
Is fading
Even
Now
My response to Sue Vincent’s (Daily Echo) Thursday Photo Prompt – Glimpsed – #writephoto, with her photo, is a nonet.
Nonet ~ a poem of nine lines and a syllable pattern of 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, with rhyme optional
Faith in those along on your journey
Removes fear from the equation
Belief in your companions
And your willingness to
Believe in yourself
With confidence
In each step
Taken
Trust
My response to Sue Vincent’s (Daily Echo) Thursday Photo Prompt – Stepping Stones – #writephoto, with her photo, is a nonet. It’s inspired by another post by Sue, The Journey of the Fool, in which she describes crossing the River Wharfe on the Stepping Stones…blindfolded. It’s a good read.
Nonet ~ a poem of nine lines and a syllable pattern of 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, with rhyme optional
That island, there on the horizon
So near, and yet so far away
That seeming apparition
Lost, in isolation
Nearly out of sight
Without purpose
Would be me
Without
You
My response to Sue Vincent’s (Daily Echo) Thursday Photo Prompt – The island #writephoto, with her photo, is a nonet.
Nonet ~ a poem of nine lines and a syllable pattern of 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, with rhyme optional
Cold, this door you’ve placed between our hearts
Finely dressed in formalities
Guarded and securely bound
Key broken in its lock
Where once passed freely
True love and warmth
Emotion
Is not
Seen
My response to Sue Vincent’s (Daily Echo) Thursday Photo Prompt #writephoto – Door, with her photo, is a nonet.
Nonet ~ a poem of nine lines and a syllable pattern of 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, with rhyme optional
On this clear night, with the moon so full,
my mind and heart truly inspired,
it becomes ever so clear
I have all I could want
with my love so near
my mind at peace
contentment
in my
heart
The five word prompts for The Secret Keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt #41 are inspire, night, mind, near and want.
Nonet ~ a poem of nine lines and a syllable pattern of 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, with rhyme optional
