LPiA-24 Nov. 7

[Tiger the Lion]

Let's Pretend it's April - Nov. 7
Rules: Write a poem for LPiA on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a New Reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month, have written 30 poems for the month of November. (or one, or six, or fifteen) Prompts may be revisited at any time. All members are welcome.

Topic : Write a poem inspired by the number 7. 
Form : Any
Line requirements: 8 or more

Feel free to reply with comments or kudos as you wish. 

Questions?

[RiverNotch]

line requirements should have been 7 or more xD

[RiverNotch]

Hierarchs Peter of Krutitsa, Seraphim of Uglich,
Cyril of Kazan, Thaddeus of Tver;
Platon of Banja-Luka, Petar of Dabar-Bosnia,
Sava of Karlovach, Dositej of Zagreb;
and Gorazd of Prague;

Priests Alexander Hotovitsky, Isaac Bobrakov;
Bogdan Opachich; Grigol Peradze,
Dmitry Klepinin, and Vasily Martysz;

and Maria Lilyanova; Vukasin Mandrapa;
Ilya Fondaminsky, Alexander Schmorell,
Yuri Skobtsov, and Maria Skobtsova:

you Holy Martyrs under the yoke
of Stalin, Mussolini, Pavelich, Hitler,

you whose blood adorned our Church
as with purple and fine linen
under a Totalitarian age,

to whom did you pray, when you yourself faced
what we now face, what now makes us seek

you as the Saints who most understand
our present dread and future pain,
as the Thrice-Seven Helpers of Modernity?

[CRNDLSM]

One day I'm gonna make it
To the top of this ladder
The reason I havnt yet
Forced myself more, I've had sur-
vived so long only to get
Sick, set back, stuck, and sadder.
Seven days a week upset
But if i fall ill splatter

[Magpie]

CRNDLSM - kudos for 7 syllables a line, surely that deserves some cake

RiverNotch - Your right about the 7 line requirement. Nice poem and if you wrote that today simply based on the prompt then, aye you deserve cake also.

In fact Cake to everyone who has posted poems for prompts, they're all good quality, really enjoyed reading them. You make me feel lazy, done one got a couple in the fire. I'll catch up slowly.

[dukealien]

Seven X


What’s so special
about the number
seven, anyway?

Heavens, days,
stars in the sky.
Why?

Easy. Seven is the Gen-X
of numbers, sandwiched between
whiney massed Millennials
and Gen-Ys with phones for faces.

Or if you want
to just be mean,
seven is rejected by
the little numbers–
not tech savvy, they say–
and by the big ones
(too quiet, he just works here).
But seven’s everlastin’ prime
so he don’t care.

[dukealien]

@CRNDLSM - Very ingenious, along with the metaphor of ladder as days of the week. As a sailor might say, one hand for yourself and one for the... calendar?

@RiverNotch - Ashamed to say I had to look up Pavelich. One of fascism's less obvious but longer-term effects is engendering fear of fascism. Which is not to say the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, only that (as Tom Wolfe remarked) the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States yet lands only in Europe.

[Magpie]

Seven

I am the greatest of all the single digit numbers.

Evens are too agreeable,
complying with each other
in their division
and multiplication.

Awkward odds are the best,
the primes even better.
So farewell to nine and onto five,
five the deceiver too amenable to be odd.
Conveniently half of the base 
whose name shall not be mentioned.

That leaves one and three and me
-- Eddington's number.
One is singular yet makes all,
ironically lacking a uniqueness.
Triumphant three
small enough to be visualised
trio, triangle, trinity

but me.

Seven,

revered in antiquity long before Galileo
perfected his telescope
and turned it towards the Pleiades.
Soon after which the classical planets
were no more
and my significance dwindled.

I have no care for being lucky.
My greatness seemingly lies
in archaic remnants, hanging gardens.
Others may make their claims in hope
but you know and I know

I am the greatest of all the single digit numbers.

[RiverNotch]

RiverNotch - Your right about the 7 line requirement. Nice poem and if you wrote that today simply based on the prompt then, aye you deserve cake also.

thanks for the feedback,

i really did write it based on the prompt....which means, to my frustration, that in my more private reworking of this, i have to change the line count and the number of saints, since apparently i missed one. i mean, there are way more martyrs, even named ones, from this particular era, but i was working off a particular list