One liner Wednesday.
“In the face of adversity, we have a choice. We can be bitter, or we can be better. Those words are my North Star.”
Sorry it’s a day late!
One – Liner Wednesday. North Star.
11 Feb 2021 8 Comments
in apologies, inspiration, One liner Wednesday Tags: Hope, Inspired, thoughts
#TANKA TUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 209, Last challenge of 2020
29 Dec 2020 17 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, Poems Tags: acrostic poem, Colleen Chesebro, Hope, New year, nonets
Good morning and welcome to Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge. Colleen said : “For the LAST poetry challenge of 2020, I want you to write a poem about hope, using your favorite poetry form (it doesn’t have to be syllabic). Please make these poems inspirational to others.
No negativity and No politics! We’ve all had enough politics to last us another lifetime.
After you’ve written your poem, tell us why the specific form you chose is your favorite. Why does that form resonate with you? If it’s a new form, teach us how to write that specific form.
I’ll stop by and comment throughout the week as time allows. There will be NO recap post on Monday, January 4, 2021. Make sure and visit the other participant’s post through Mr. Linky or from the ping-backs on the challenge post.
Tanka Tuesday will resume on January 18, 2021.”
New Year New Hope
Harvengers of hope and light arrives
Open the doors for their entry
Praise the welcome gifts with joy
Enter the new year now
Full of confidence
Undo all ills
Let ties of
Love bind
You.
Today I have chosen my two favourite forms of poetry, the Nonet and the Acrostic Poem . This is an Acrostic Nonet. I love the way these two disaplines concentrate the mind. When put them together I feel I have achieved a small triumph.
Be blessed and safe everyone happy New Year.
Sue Vincent’s Thursday photo prompt. Choices.
03 Dec 2020 27 Comments
in #writephoto, Depression, inspiration, photo prompt, Stories Tags: choices, Hope, Sue Vincent Thursday Photo Prompt
For visually challenged writers, the image shows a solitary figure on a beach against a wide ocean.
Small choices.
Not long he’d said, I did ask if he could be more specific. He was very nice about it but just couldn’t say. Months, weeks or days…he didn’t mention years.
I really don’t know why I am writing this down, there is no one to read it.
I don’t feel sad, how could I, the sea looks so beautiful with sun glinting on it. This beach is so peaceful, it’s warm and safe.
God, I am so tired, I need to sleep, I wonder if I should wake up again.
It’s funny I am not in any pain… I wonder if it will stay like that. No I am not afraid , well a little, maybe.
Oh! Hello dog, your beautiful, are you on your own?
No it’s okay she’s no bother I love dogs. No I don’t live here …
Pardon? Me, yes I would love a coffee, thank you. There’s a café over there that welcomes dogs……
2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 204, #THEMEPROMPT
24 Nov 2020 22 Comments
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WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
It’s the fourth week of the month! Are you ready for a theme prompt?
This month’s theme is a haiku written by Sue Vincent:
clouds cover the moon,
beyond dawn’s pale horizon
sun rises unseen.
©2020 Sue Vincent
Please use the above haiku to inspire your own syllabic poetry. There’s a lot to unpack in these words. What will your interpretation be? Go where the words take you.
I wrote an Etheree in honour of the Dawn.
New Hope
A
Sliver
Of silver.
A ray of hope
Night shades wrapped and cloaked.
Dawn dancing on her way
With stealth she starts a new day
Silver and gold look glorious
Bright skirts swirling around, hope for us.
Secretly ringing the changes of life.
An extra long One-Liner Wednesday.
18 Nov 2020 8 Comments
in inspiration, One liner Wednesday Tags: #1linerWeds, Hope, LindaGHill, Sick planet
”So many words veiling the truth the others turning and it’s time for us to choose and people will try to take you down too
But if I was a betting man, I’d put all my money on you so be the young, the brave, the powerful ’cause the world is standing waiting for someone to come and change it.”
#TANKA TUESDAY POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 202 SYNONYMSONLY
10 Nov 2020 24 Comments
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WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
This week, Kat Myrman, from Like Mercury Colliding, selected the words:
I have written about the world as it is today. I am asking nature to help my children and grandchildren, everyone else’s too. We would be so grateful if we could have a better world. I have used synonyms for the two prompt words as well as counting my syllables.
Imagine & Gratitude
A
Life where
Thankfulness
Is not a dream
But reality.
Let’s make believe it’s true
No war,plague, famine or hate.
In my dreams I hear you saying
Is it too much to picture real peace.
I would really appreciate normal
Thursday photo prompt: Glass #writephoto
22 Oct 2020 15 Comments
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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
Not for want.
10 Oct 2020 22 Comments
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An old poem reworked, a Tyburn , I wrote back in 2018.
image from Pixabay
Not
Not for want of trying, I
Have spread my wings,to learn to fly.
Not for want of doing right
I’ve raged and screamed against the night
Not only for myself
I’ve questioned the distribution of wealth .
Not for my grandchildren but also me
I tried to set the oppressed free
And scrape the plastic from the sea.
Not just on a whim
~~~~
One Liner Wednesday on Thursday
08 Oct 2020 21 Comments
in inspiration, One liner Wednesday Tags: Caring, Hope, LindaGHill, Praying
I am too discombobulated to write yet today. Too busy being wings for a dear friend. Perhaps later words will come or perhaps not …. Tomorrow is another day.
This is part of LindaGHill’s One-Liner Wednesday.
My Red, killer shoes.
08 Sep 2020 70 Comments
in feeling unwell, humour, inspiration, Poems, rant Tags: Best Cancer, determination, Hope, Red shoes
These are my, can do shoes! My not going to listen to you shoes!
My get up and go shoes! My stamp on and kick the shit out of the blues, shoes!
My ain’t gonna be be put on by you shoes! My skipping and dancing in the moonlight shoes.
My walking the righteous path shoes! my who am I kidding shoes?
My kicking up a rumpus fetch me my compass shoes!
My who you looking at shoes, my cop an eye full of this shoes!
My ain’t behaving well shoes. My dancing on the ceiling enjoying every second shoes!
My in ya face, fall from grace shoes. My come and get me shoes,
My tiny winy skirt shoes! My delights are on offer shoes!
My need a thrill shoes, my ones and twos shoes!
My I am bored shoes, my I want it now shoes!
My singing in the rain shoes, my apple pie up in the sky shoes!
My tipping the scales my way shoes, my light a candle say a prayer shoes!
My uppdido shoes, my yabbadabbado shoes!
My who am I kidding shoes, my I wish I was not such a wooze shoes!
My when is it my turn shoes? My fingers burned all hopes spurned shoes!
My bridges burnt shoes, my lessons learnt shoes!
My on my own shoes, my without a home shoes! My nothing left to loose shoes!
These are my I can beat you shoes, my watch it! your days are numbered shoes.
My, we have your measure now shoes. My cut you out, kick you hard shoes,
My grind you into the floor shoes!!My laugh in your face shoes!!
My Cancer we will wipe you out shoes, My will without a doubt shoes!
MY WE ARE GONNA WIN SHOES!!!!
my red shoes.
My Red Shoes.
