For my reference: Yahtzee prompts (Roll #3)

Poet's Corner: Air Sax by Billy Collins

I do like it when poets reference other pieces of art. So here is Billy Collins referencing John Coltrane in "Air Sax" which is from Whale Day and Other Poems [2020].

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My Poem: A Bravery of Geraniums

Title: A Bravery of Geraniums
Number of Lines: 8
Rating: Gen
Poetic form: triolet
Prompt: mistrusting
Notes: I just read this line from Castle Skull by John Dickson Carr: There are many echoes in Coblenz by night, for you must not be deceived by a bravery of geraniums and villas into forgetting the old decaying gables crowding up behind. Bells have rung, and men have died, since Cæsar here threw his bridge across the Rhine. But now it was bright daylight—though dusky in the tunnel—and I distinctly heard somebody walking just behind me.

you mustn’t be deceived by a
bravery of geraniums
the mistrusting and the shy say
you mustn’t be deceived by a
bed, they dissemble, they lie, they
have too much in their craniums
you mustn’t be deceived by a
bravery of geraniums

My Poem: Jeeves & Wooster: Wardrobe Inventory: Gen

Title: Wardrobe Inventory
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Number of Lines: 8
Rating: Gen
Poetic form: Ottava rima
Prompt: oniomania
Notes: Inspired by this excerpt from "The Aunt and the Sluggard" where Rocky Todd is aghast at the prospect of 'dressing for dinner.'
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In full, we have three suits of evening dress, sir.
And, yes, we dress for dinner every night, sir.
Two dinner jackets, not three, I confess, sir;
as to the third, well, it is not quite right, sir.
Of waistcoats, we’ve seven, starched to impress, sir,
four dozen shirts, they’re neither loose nor tight, sir.
Two shallow shelves of white ties, he who buys, sir,
considers most adequate our supplies, sir.