We Don’t Need Another Poem – 20th January 2025

~ shaun tenzenmen

We don’t need another poem
Out of the holidays, out of the seasons
Don’t make the same mistake again
Rolling seas and moonlight are not reasons
To write another one the same
And I wonder when are we ever gonna change
A prompt repeated ’til nothing else remains

We don’t need another poem
We don’t need the same old metaphors
All we want is life beyond
Another simile that simply bores

I know it’s something we can rely on
But there’s got to be better out there
Love and nature, their day is done
Just another castle built in the air
And I wonder when we are ever gonna change
A prompt repeated ’til nothing else remains

We don’t need another poem
We don’t need the same old similes
All we want is life beyond
Another metaphor to simply please

So what do we do with our lives?
We leave only a mark
Will our poem shine like a light
Or end in the dark?
Give it all or nothing

We don’t need another poem
About autumn, Christmas or Halloween
All we want is life beyond
Another set of rhymes already seen

To the tune of We Don’t Need Another Hero. After following a number of poetry prompt blogs for more than 12 months now I found it a little amusing that the same seasonal themes return again.

It’s more an observation than a criticism as I rarely bother to write about seasons specifically, or holidays (especially if they are not relevant to my location). Folks can write about whatever makes them happy. It’s easy to not read something! But I do like to be challenged by the writer to perhaps come at the prompt from a new angle for a change.

26th Sep 2025 – Shared with Poets and Storytellers United – fall

24 thoughts on “We Don’t Need Another Poem – 20th January 2025”

  2. Also we in the Southern Hemisphere can get a bit sick of being invited to respond to a season we don’t happen to be experiencing!

    However, as you know, no prompt at P&SU is compulsory and/or you are free to subvert them. That being said, I enjoyed the forthright wit of your response to this one.

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    1. Yes, I remember that feeling when I lived in Sydney but consoled myself with constant sunshine and happiness! Haha!

      It’s lucky I didn’t pick the other poem for this prompt, which is even more seasonally forthright!

      Thanks Rosemary! 🙏

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  3. Ah I like a rebel if I meet one. I’ll be one as well as i wrote about the Spring but I did it with new metaphors and with lots of love haha “Love and nature, their day is done” Let’s agree to disagree Both my favourites. But he we all love different things but we still love

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  5. hmm. I think I grow and reminicse about different things as time goes by. or maybe a different perspective set within the seasons… Yes, it can become repetitive – but therein is the challenge. I think it has to do with creativity … and again… some things never change.

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    1. Now I’m living in Thailand, it’s either hot, really hot or hot and wet! Some things never change.

      I reminisce the one-week English summers and the winter snow of 1979. The wild Sydney storms of 1995. It’s a while ago now and creativity hasn’t risen out those memories. Not yet, at least.

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  7. Shaun, I am getting your very subtle message that you are not fond of writing seasonal poems. 🙂 I think you like writing about things you don’t like. I want to read about something you really love:) I hope you love seafood. Next time you are in Sydney you can take me to lunch at Doyles Watson Bay:)

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  8. Haha! I’m glad that the subtlety is not lost!

    I’m sure there’s a poem here about something I really love….somewhere….perhaps….hmmm.

    The seagulls around Doyles are ferocious!

    The park and walk around South Head is beautiful. It’s where I took my now-wife on our first date.

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  13. Even if Thailand doesn’t have autumn in the way the US and UK have autumn, I’ve seen photo essays about some sort of wildlife park or preserve in Chiang Rai. Lots of material for nature poems. Not that everyone has to write nature poems, just that Thailand has lots of material–fresh to most English-speaking audiences, too.

    I like this fresh, clever poem, though.

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