Revelry

A year of poetry prompts. From 2025. How do you want to go? #revelry

How will we die, my love?
After one last night of revelry —
Immersed in our desires,
With smiles in our eyes,
And aches in our brains?
Or
Surrounded by blankets,
Softness,
And natural causes?
Or
On the battlefield,
Fighting for goals
We will never reach?

Photo by Fredrik Solli Wandem on Unsplash

Here’s another of my poems — This one was published earlier this year in The Lark — it’s called “The Keeper of Castles.”

This is one of several poems I’m publishing daily until all my draft backlog is all online. My goal is to post all my 2025 drafts and then move on this year with a clean slate. It’s taking longer than planned, since Medium only allows two posts every 24 hours (Who knew!?), but slow and steady…

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