2023.2 Berger

Another Allographic prompt, this time to write a tetractys about a favourite seat. 

sat
watching
everything
go by so fast
I am ice-struck, stuck in sucking comfort.

Miserably comfortable, unshifting,
sifting icebergs
skittering
on slow
drifts.

fast,
crawling,
vast landscapes
are unfurling
while I sit, prisoner of my sorrow.

Image source: Wikimedia montage image of what a whole iceberg may look like... 

2022.6 Stellar

My now-traditional use of the #abracadabra form, possibly because I’m a little behind again...

Maintenance of status quo was never

my design. I am hooked in and hoodwinked,

blinking in the light of promises

spewed by those forces beyond my

capabilities. And yet

nothing diminishes my

capacity for

seeking out the

remedy

which is

hope.

Image from CleanLink via Google Image Search

(And you can write your own abracadabra using the repeating/ concrete forms tool.)

2022.4 Drake

This one’s all the fault of @poetrynonstop, specifically Ken Cumberlidge, who introduced us to this form (which is, of course, on the magical spreadsheet). On this day in 1581, Queen Elizabeth I knighted Francis Drake for sailing around the world. But this might not be about just him...

Be careful; common men fare badly circumnavigating principalities. Pursue a brighter star; climb higher than them.

They call you names,
the ones within your sphere.
No matter now.

Can you see them still?
The ones you left there?

Images put together by me and taken from Google Image searches on, respectively: “Drake meme”, “Francis Drake”, “drake dragon”, and “Drake equation”