Wordless Wednesday.
10 Mar 2021 20 Comments
in inspiration, Wordless Wednesday Tags: Beauty, love, Sue Vincent, truth
Interlude: Looking Back…
25 Oct 2020 6 Comments
in Autumn, History, inspiration Tags: Beauty, inspirational, Life, Sue Vincent
A beautiful clip from Sue Vincent’s silent Eye Blog.
“The circle opened its heart to welcome me back… and ‘welcoming’ was exactly the feeling Stuart reported later, with a good deal of surprise. It was not what he had expected from the place at all. It is hard to find words that describe it… as if each of the different types of stone… the sarsens, bluestones, gneiss and many others… all sing a different note, but no matter how beautifully they harmonise, their song needs to pass through the human heart in order to be heard, felt and lived. So it was with tears of gratitude streaming… and probably a very silly grin… that we finally entered the circle of stones.”

Thursday photo prompt: Glass #writephoto
22 Oct 2020 15 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, #writephoto, Autumn Tags: Beauty, Hope, Nature
Today is Thursday and if Sue Vincent was not fighting her own battle she would of set us her weekly #writephoto. So here is one I wrote back in November 2019 .
For visually challenged writers, the image shows a bay with clear, glassy water, reflecting blue sky and clouds. The bay is surrounded by green hills, one of which may be an island in the distance.
Glass.

What lies beneath the surface.
The reflection of Earth’s soul.
It draws you in, swallowing you whole.
The cloudy blue sky full of grace
Look deeper and you will see
The essence of you and me
See in the reflective glass
The beauty of your soul
Let Nature set your goal.

This is part of Sue Vincent’s #writephoto

#Haikai Challenge #152 (8/16/20): katydid (kirigirisu) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
17 Aug 2020 34 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, inspiration, Poems Tags: Beauty, Frank Tassone, Katydids, Nature
Today for Frank Tassone’s Haikai Challenge We have been asked to write about a Katydid. We do not have Katydids in England but I have seen and heard them when on holiday abroad. Today I have written a Haiku about the image Frank gave us and also Tanka.

HAIKU
There on the worktop
Katydid, double trouble
Optical magic
TANKA
Never found at home
Wrong Tropic,wrong nature zone.
Exotica
A harbinger of Autumn
Katydid is not found here.
Wordless Wednesday: Stained Glass.
12 Aug 2020 21 Comments
in inspiration, Wordless Wednesday Tags: Beauty, stained glass windows, Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday. Escape.
08 Jul 2020 25 Comments
in inspiration, Wordless Wednesday Tags: Beauty, escape, Flowers, Nature, wind
Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 154 #PhotoPrompt
19 Nov 2019 6 Comments
in Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, photo prompt, Poems Tags: Beauty, Birds, dawn, New hope
It is the middle Tuesday of the month. This month we will use a photo chosen by last month’s “Photo-Prompt” Poet of the Week ~ Linda Lee Lyberg.

I have written a Tanka. Celebrating another day.
And So The Dawn
Come beautiful birds
Fill the skies, grace my eyes
Share with me the dawn
Together we awaken
The beauty of tomorrow
Have a good week everyone

This is part of of Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Tanka.
Skin Deep.
28 Sep 2019 15 Comments
in inspiration, photos, Poems, Uncategorized Tags: Beauty, devotion, Enduring, love
I needed to write, so here is an Etheree and a Tanka about enduring devotion.
I
See you
My baby
Such joy you bring
Me. I do not see
What other people do.
Beauty is only skin deep
Your devotion makes my heart leap.
You may not have too pretty a face.
Who needs beauty when you can have pure grace.
*****
And you my sweet dog
Always my best support.
Happy together
We have been made immortal
Still one, a beautiful thought.
A little tribute to Emily Carr her monkey Woo and her faithful dog Billy.
Thursday photo prompt: Rooted #writephoto
09 May 2019 54 Comments
in #writephoto Tags: #writephoto, Beauty, Nature, Rooted, Thursday Photo prompt
Roots
Spread like
Waking dreams
Softly flowing
Kaleidoscope greens
Each a wish or a scheme
Flowing from us like a stream
Our canopies brightly adorned
Loves celebrated, loves lost mourned
Secrets, dark and light, forces of god’s light.
You have no idea what I have seen
Winters white,golden light, Spring leaves green
You tie your colours to my boughs
Hoping I will heal your ills
You do not understand
Nature’s true power
Older than time
Reason, rhyme
Spread like
Roots.
This is part of Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo prompt Challenge. #writephoto.
September Music 16
16 Sep 2018 2 Comments
in Music, Poems Tags: Beauty, Canon in D, dawn, dusk, Jane Dougherty, Johann Perchelbel, Kat Myrman, Nature's Colours, September Music 16
For the month of September I am going to choose a piece of music or song and write a poem or alternative version. Jane Dougherty is doing a September Stanza here. And Kat Myrman is doing September a poem a day Here.
Today’s piece of music is Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel
My interpretation.
Peace
Quiet
At sunset
And sunrise too
Colours melding bright
Old friends are well met
All of God’s creation
Knows exactly what to do
Nature rests and soon will renew
All the horizons are lit with hope
For a peaceful night or a bright new day.