Final A and I Poetry Challenge

I’ve had the pleasure of taking part in the A and I Poetry Challenge which ran from March till now. This is its final chapter. 

I wish to thank Amanda and Ineke for all the prompts that made me poem even when it’s not April.

Since the challenge is closing, I’ve chosen one photo from all my previous seven posts. In the caption of each photo there is the link to the post in question.

The featured photo, taken by my sister earlier this month on my visit to Slovenia, is added for this last, October challenge prompt which is: “Write a poem to, or about, your future self. How might you see yourself, or your life, in ten years time.”

Alrighty then.

68

In ten years I’ll be 68.

It didn’t register.
Let me repeat.

In ten years I’ll be 68.

My parents were it just now.

Something is wrong, can’t be.

Oh.

I’m forty-eight, not fifty-eight.

Jumping to conclusions again,
overachiever.

(AS IF
“In ten years I’ll be 58”
didn’t sound
exactly the same.)

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Here are my monthly poem posts in disorder:

July: A visit to Trieste. 

September: The cycle of a field through seasons and a humorous ditty. 

March: A drone image or a little flood? 

May: A lovely birthday present from visiting parents – my poems in a book!

June: Pearl Jam live, again, after four years. 

April: The poetry month. 

August: Amore visited me in Slovenia. 

October: I hope that in ten years’ time most people will stay away but an unknown terrier (of a known owner) will gladly jump into my lap. Photo: Sista Klu

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