22 Sep 2021 9 Comments
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His demeanor is so sunny
He stands proud on his last hoorah!
Knowing he’s spread his seeds afar.
Across meadows just like honey.
From lawns they want him gone, funny.
Sparks memories of days of old.
Blowing fairy wishes untold.
A green and yellow dandy he
Such a glorious sight to see.
He’s such a delight to behold
21 Sep 2021 15 Comments
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Merril D. Smith selected the image this week. It’s a lithograph and you can read more about it HERE. Remember, we can see what’s in the image, so write your poem using the image as an inspiration. Don’t just describe what you see in the lithograph. Think about metaphor and allegory. Just remember to check what form you’re using. Some of the Japanese forms frown upon the use of metaphors. This challenge explores Ekphrastic writing, inspired by visual art.
I chose to do a Tanka this week, I really love this image, it’s very relivant to the world today .
death is so tired
exhausted by the burden.
no one here listens
he turns life’s timers around
drowning us all out of hand.
21 Sep 2021 3 Comments
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so fashionable
golden and green this year’s hues.
roaring his presence.
18 Sep 2021 12 Comments
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Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “puzzle.” Use it any way you’d like! I used it as an Acrostic Poem.
Ponder this if you will
Undo things that make you ill
Zen is for the high brow
Zoo is where we live
Life is a conundrum
Everyday mystery!
14 Sep 2021 17 Comments
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Are you ready to choose some syllables to use in your syllabic poetry this week? Ruth, from RuthKlein’s Scribbles, selected your two words:
I chose to write an ETHEREE this week, my synonyms for Family are Clans and relations, and for peace, Tranquility and war free.
We
Bluster
And bemoan
The shortcomings
Of extended clans
While calming the waters
Others raise fires with their fans.
Will things come to a bloody pass?
Or tranquility encompass us?
And so relations we will be, war free.
14 Sep 2021 63 Comments
in inspiration, loss, memories, Music, photos, Poems, sadness, The Silent Eye Tags: birthday, remembering, Sue Vincent
Today would of been Sue Vincent’s birthday. Sue was a wonderful person, mother, mystic, friend, teacher. Generous in every sense of the word and many things to many people.
Sue would of been 63years young today, five years younger than me. I feel sad that fate and cancer cheated us of knowing her longer.
Two of Sue’s beautiful Midnight Haiku.
Lens at the ready use
Rainbow cows and peaceful seas
Awaiting capture
Reflections reflect
A vision of reality
The world in our eyes.
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Whether or not you knew Sue please visit her site it is still there here.
13 Sep 2021 6 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, humour, love, memories, Poems, Ronovanwrites Tags: Boys, growing up, Teenagers
chin smooth a peach
the teen years bring gentle fuzz
don’t use harsh razors
there’s time enough for stubble
the urge to age breeds trouble.
A Tanka for Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Haiku Challenge.
11 Sep 2021 36 Comments
in loss, love, memories, Music, Poems, rant, SoCs, Talking Straight Tags: Hope, hopelessness, LindaGHill
It is Saturday and time for LindaGHill’s weekly prompt.
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “where.” Use it any way you’d like!
It’s twenty years today since 9/11, we can’t forget today or this week because the media will not let us. Sadly there have been so many incidents before and since, it never stops. There are people all over the world living with war and terrorism every day. We must never forget any of this and all that went on before 9/11 because if we do there is no hope. No we must not forget but we can’t stop there we must change, we must change.
Where.
Where in the world is there peace.
Where in the world do the oppressed get relief.
Where in the world is there no evil
Where do harsh words and deeds not spill
From the mouths of leaders who’s talk is cheap
They set the rules while others reap
Children die and parents weep.
Yet we have the answers in our reach
The wherewithal is here use it I beseech.
08 Sep 2021 22 Comments
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Dark Dreams
Dreams
Standing
On a ledge
Fear, spider like
Creeps closer to you
Drenching you with cold sweat
Paralysed you cannot move to
The is no chance of escaping
The blackness engulfs you and you drown
Sinking to the depths of the black abyss.
THIS IS PART OF COLLEEN’S TANKA TUESDAY WEEKLY POETRY CHALLENGE. THIS WEEK I HAVE WRITTEN AN ETHEREE.
01 Sep 2021 11 Comments
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This is part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Décima
A line of blood drawn in the sand.
Poison and fear begin to drip
Over the evil rules you trip
The men stand with guns in hand
Hide you’re not worthy as woman.
Every inch you have ever gained
Wrenched from you, all your freedom drained.
Deserted, left now high and dry
False promises your left to cry.
Lost forever the freedom gained.
If we were having coffee , every Sunday
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