Monday Poetry Prompt: Condition, Five, Rapid
This week let’s write a poem with the words condition, five and rapid in it. This is another of those prompts where I randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language plus a few of my favorites. Post your poems in the comments below.
Never counted to ten or even five
Never thought of risking lives
Rapid as striking a match
Condition red threatening to open a latch
Fumbling fingers a toddler might hatch
Thinking it a game, a winnable dispatch
Sadly for the boots on the ground
And airmen in planes flew around
These lives expendable the toddler thought
His gaming continues as the golf he plays
It was a deal he thought could be bought
And I have to ask, how many days
Will bombs and rockets fly
And we sit at our screens, watching them die.
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My response as https://rugby843.blog to this poetry challenge:
POSTED BY BARTHOLOMEW BARKER ⋅ MARCH 16, 2026
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