11 Aug 2020 6 Comments
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Jules, of Jules Pens Some Gems selected your words for this week. Check out this amazing list of poetry forms on her blog!
Hawk
Moved in
Spiralling
Towards his pray
Mouse faced up to him.
Their eyes met silently
The rodent knew the cycle
Of life and the part would play
Straightening his shoulders he stood true.
Hawk extended his talons took his due
I have written an Etheree using synonyms for the prompt words.
05 Aug 2020 34 Comments
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It’s the first of the month and you know what that means! Poets, choose your own syllabic poetry form, theme, words, images, etc. It’s up to you!
So the news intervened in my choice today. The explosion in Lebanon’s capital Beirut yesterday prompted me to write the chain of Haiku below. As if the Lebanon has not got enough issues. As of writing this it’s not known if this incident was an horrific accident or act of war/ terror. I am praying for the dead and injured, numbered in the thousands.
I am combining Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge with Ronovanwrite’s invitation to try out his own new form of Haiku which he has named Shi Rensa Haiku. Here is his explanation.
Beirut
Kindness in measure
Helps us to flourish and grow
Please extend a hand
**
Please extend a hand
To those stricken by evil
In a far off land
**
In a far off land
Lives stolen and ripped apart
Look deep have a heart.
**
Look deep have a heart
We need to find new kindness
There is not enough.
**
28 Jul 2020 41 Comments
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It’s the fourth week of July! Are you ready for a theme prompt? Sue Vincent selected the theme this week with a quote prompt: I have written a double Etheree this week.
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.” Herman Hesse
The wisdom of Ents.
You
Told me
Your secrets
Reached out, touched me
Spoke inside my head
Showed me life eons past
All the changes you have seen
The sum of your knowledge is vast.
You’re not tied by religion or cast.
Un-dispoiled by rank or fortune you stand.
Your knowledge once tapped can not be unseen.
You picked me from the group, gently spoke.
I heard you and carry your words.
To this day I still hear you
Still see what you showed me.
The vision is true
Sheltered by you.
Life giving
You are
Ent.
******
21 Jul 2020 54 Comments
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It’s the third week of the month! For Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday. Time for a #PhotoPrompt!
I thought I would try another Haibun .
Sally Cronin provided the photo for this month’s photo challenge:
Early morning on the beach my mind being swept clean by the North wind. Waves lashing at my feet I contemplate the mistakes I have made in life. I see a lobster pot washed up on the beach, coloured ropes attached to it, full of detritus. I stop and look.
Washed up on life’s shore
Ties broken full of salt tears
Hope gone, deserted.
15 Jul 2020 27 Comments
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Watched by God
Keeping us safe in his hands
He bestows
All good things
Fighting the darkness in spells
Showered with goodness
08 Jul 2020 41 Comments
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It’s the first of the month and you know what that means! Poets, choose your own syllabic poetry form, theme, words, images, etc. It’s up to you!
This week I have chosen to write a double Etheree about my cousin Lyndy and myself, crowing up.
One
Two three
Lyndy and
Me. Playing in
The yard happily.
Four five six young and free
Life was good for Lyndy and me
Daddy made the scooter, we shared
Such happy days, we were free from care
Seven eight nine, endless days in the sun shine.
Time
Flew by
For Lyndy
And little me too.
Playing in fairy dells,
Ten, eleven Twelve
Summers were good to Lindy
And me.Thirteen fourteen fifteen.
We grew up cousin Lyndy and me
Close together, wherever we may be.
30 Jun 2020 48 Comments
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It’s the fifth Tuesday of the month! This is our chance to work with a specific syllabic poetry form. Take this opportunity to learn more about the particular form.
Haibun
As an added bit to the challenge… please use Frank J. Tassone’s photo as the inspiration for your Haibun. Frank says this spot is called Getrude’s Nose, a Rocky promenade located in Minnewaska Preserve State Park, in the Shawangunk Mountains outside New Paltz, New York (about a 2 hour drive out of NYC). Please include the copyright to the photo in your post.
I decided to take on Colleen’s challenge and write about part of my recent time in hospital.
The Table.
I lie on my side, voices above my head are panicked. Another voice arrives, a quick discussion ensues. Angiogram is mentioned, I am moved. It’s all panic and pain. My head searches for escape, trees, rock, warmth and peace. The voices decide what they are doing. A voice barks orders at me, the pain increases…..
Help me fly, Gaia.
Bare me away on wings of
Your healing powers
02 Jun 2020 22 Comments
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It’s the first of the month and you know what that means! Poets, choose your own syllabic poetry form, theme, words, images, etc. It’s up to you!
My poem is an Etheree. It is about my mother in law. Who has been ill since 13th April with Covid19, it is now attacking her brain. MIL is 100years old.
Silent Fear
Torture, trapped here never to move again
Lost, alone in this dark place, of pain.
I will not stop I won’t give in.
But my strength is wearing thin.
Where’s the door, where’s the key
I need to fly free.
Machines beep beep,
I need sleep
Set me
Free.
*********
This Covid19 is a Bastard
26 May 2020 21 Comments
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It’s the fourth week of the month! Are you ready for a theme prompt? Merril D. Smith from last month’s challenge selected a special theme:
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
― William Shakespeare,
Maybe I should of written a sonnet but it was a Gogyohka that really spoke to me. I wrote this one about the world situation but it could apply to any situation really. The title is Caring Light.
So deep the depths of despair
Separated by nescesity we show care
No touch, isolation bites deep
Yet the light of love we keep
Flickering warming it’s healing we keep.
*****
19 May 2020 31 Comments
in Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, Depression, feeling unwell, photo prompt, Poems Tags: Colleen Chesebro, Fear, Shadorma
It’s the third week of the month! Time for a #PhotoPrompt
Vashti Q. Vega, from last month’s challenge, has provided the photo for this month’s challenge:
This week I have decided to do a Shadorma for Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka.
Watching me
Slowly draining life
Eating up
My soul whole
Evil stalks my nights and days
I can not escape.
If we were having coffee , every Sunday
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