and as usual for the past year and writing challenges, I'm behind...
Here are my poems written and shared thus far...
6 Apr 16
Light - light bright - where light?
Bright light - your light - where light?Light your light - your bright light - for you are my light, love
6 Apr 16
So many of the
Voices from my youth now lost
2016 - ouch!
2 Apr 16
Bees are a'buzzing
And flowers are a'blooming
Pollen - oh, achoo!
1 Apr 16
Fools and their money are soon parted
So the saying goes
I day fools and their callings are soon parted
For the part that goes
You must live life according to these rules
And live in these boxes
But wait - there's more to these rules
Yeah, just try to outfox us
It can be done of course
By those who live by our own rules
Live only by the dark horse
And refuse to be ruled be those fools
And we part their money from them in the end...
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Catching up with older poetry...
29 Apr 14
Inspired by a
vagabond seen on the drive home today...
Vagabond shoes
Pack
on his back
Swinging his guitar
Playing the blues?
I think not
Up with the moon
Out
with the sun
Back with the twilight
We play the blues
Not he who wears the
vagabond shoes
The freedom of the
open road
The prison of the cubicle
Hard knocks
life
Paperwork strife
We sing the blues
Not he who wears the
vagabond shoes
27 Apr 14
Choice
Control the
beast
Tame the beast
Become the beast
Realize you are the beast
Accept the
beast
Channel the beast
That is choice
15 Apr 14
Hero or monster
Depends
on perception
Who benefits, who doesn't
Some say the heroes
have gone the way of the dinosaurs
I say they have not
I say they are on
their vision quests right here right now, gathering the light with which to
illuminate the world again
I say each of us is a
hero in our own way
We have traveled the
road of travails and fears, moved through the trials and fears, came out on the
other side unscathed yet changed with a gift for the world to share
If the world chooses
not to see, the gold becomes dross, the wheat becomes chaff, the fire becomes
ash
If one person, one
person, chooses to see, what a marvelous transformation can be
Are we willing to
take the journey, return unscathed yet changed, and turn the dross into gold
for simply one person, even if that person is ourselves?
13 Apr 14
There is a stately
large oak tree in the park we walk through often that we have yet to see any
birds in.The other trees are full of life when the birds come through. That and
reading "The Power of Myth" rendered this poem today:
The Dying Tree
Why do the birds not
flock to this tree?
For it has lost its
Deity
Its roots are in the
ground yet not connected to the Earth
Its branches are in the sky yet not
connected with the Sun nor the Moon
Its bark is the air yet not connected with
the Wind or the Rain
The tree is in Nature
yet not connected with Nature
For it has lost its
Deity
The tree eats
The
tree drinks
The tree sleeps
But it is not long
for Here
Once its leaves no
longer sway and sing with the breeze, it will truly be gone
For it has lost its
Deity
13 Apr 14
My take on a
statement poem...
Statement: If wishes
were horses, beggars would ride.
If dreams had wings,
I'd be riding dragons
Dreams do have wings,
so why aren't you riding dragons?
Fear
Fear of
heights
Fear of fire
Fear of falling
Fear of failing
So, tell me again why
you're not riding dragons, really?
13 Apr 14
Let us
Dance to the
music of the spheres
Find the yin to our yang
Rejoice in our own mortality
Sort
perception from Reality
Hear the Truth with our own ears
Live in the Here and
Now
This is the joy of
Being
13 Apr 14
I wrote this when I
was only six poems behind (rather than the 11 I'm now at...):
Six poems
behind
Barely have time for a rhyme
Working full time
May seem sublime
But at
times leaves creativity dead
1 Apr 14
Starting off with a
senyru with Italian flair - just having a bit of fun!
April 1st, Fools Day
Ah, giorno di capriccio!
Divertente, si?
It's Been A While…National Poetry Month 2015
Apparently I didn't post on this blog at all last year…and I don't remember how well I did in writing poetry in April 2014 anyway - can find out on the National Poetry Month page on Facebook easy enough (I think).
I have written poetry every day this month though - thus far…
Here are my offerings for those first 12 days of April 2015:
10 Apr 15
I have written poetry every day this month though - thus far…
Here are my offerings for those first 12 days of April 2015:
1
Apr 15
Wanting rain not sun
Loving sun, needing water
How dry we are now
2 Apr 15
Wanting rain, not wind
Wind drying, water better
Drier we are now
3 Apr 15
Mother moon, new moon
Black moon, super moon, bleak days
Full moon, red moon, why?
Omens portend scary nights
What man breaks, nature makes right
4 Apr 15
Being female, I have
an internal inferno
that comes on at night
sleep disturbances are rife
Change of Life not so much fun
5 Apr 15
Rain? Naught but rumors of rain
Yet not a drop against my windowpane
Weathercaster's April Fool's joke
But wait, what's that sound?
The patter of drops on my windowpane!
Rumors of rain made real
6 Apr 15
Through the tear-stained pane
Flowers, yellow and purple
Comfort my sorrow
Knowing you're gone forever
Your garden is memory
7Apr 15
Thunder and lightning
Not so very frightening
Hail and funnel clouds
Furious rain against panes
Thank you, blest Mother Nature!
8 Apr 15
Snow on mountain peaks
Gold at the end of rainbow
Water's sweet relief
9 Apr 15
Writer's block have I
Poem, poem, where are you?
Made eight days - now nine!
Friday eve, full week
Fingers not yet bony
Rather, brain tired
Two for 12 Apr 15 (oops…)
Healthy, wealthy, wise
how have definitions changed
from Ben Franklin's time?
and here's poem #12 for the
month…
values, principles
all boil down to our own
personal ethics
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Balance
Yes, it has been a while since I wrote and posted a poem. This came from the prompts from a Yahoo writer's group I belong to (CHPercolators). Enjoy!
In the province of apathy the scarabs drive, heading to the scales of fate
Driving to see if the feather of truth balances each their weight
If the scales balance, the scarab becomes the feather - free to stay or fly as she chooses
If the scales tip, the scarab once again becomes the beetle coming forth from the dung to climb the seven rungs, at each level asking his heart not to stand witness against him
But first they must cross the sands of apathy, where they may yet drown and never again be found
For such are the vagaries of Fate
In the province of apathy the scarabs drive, heading to the scales of fate
Driving to see if the feather of truth balances each their weight
If the scales balance, the scarab becomes the feather - free to stay or fly as she chooses
If the scales tip, the scarab once again becomes the beetle coming forth from the dung to climb the seven rungs, at each level asking his heart not to stand witness against him
But first they must cross the sands of apathy, where they may yet drown and never again be found
For such are the vagaries of Fate
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Haiku for Mars
So, NPR posted about MAVEN sending haiku to Mars - and of course, I took up the challenge. The first stanza is all that was submitted (only one entry per person for this one)...
Haiku/Senyru to the Red Planet
Red planet, sister
what lessons can you teach us
before it's too late?
Red planet, brother
what wars decimated you
long 'ere I was born?
Red planet, mother
did your people flee here
for a better life?
Red planet, father
protector or destroyer
sent us sons of strife
Red planet, beacon
lesson for us all on Earth
to reconnect with her
Red planet, ghost of
things yet to come, future can
be changed; can we choose?
Haiku/Senyru to the Red Planet
Red planet, sister
what lessons can you teach us
before it's too late?
Red planet, brother
what wars decimated you
long 'ere I was born?
Red planet, mother
did your people flee here
for a better life?
Red planet, father
protector or destroyer
sent us sons of strife
Red planet, beacon
lesson for us all on Earth
to reconnect with her
Red planet, ghost of
things yet to come, future can
be changed; can we choose?
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Day 16 - Focus
Focus
Brings into being
That which is focused upon
Focus
Draws out the light
Draws in the darkness
Draw out the light
Draw out the laughter
Draw out the twinkle
That lives on ever after
Draw in the darkness
Draw in the night
Draw in the sorrow
Lose sight of the light
Focus on the light
Drown out the darkness
Draw out the twinkle
That lives on ever after
Brings into being
That which is focused upon
Focus
Draws out the light
Draws in the darkness
Draw out the light
Draw out the laughter
Draw out the twinkle
That lives on ever after
Draw in the darkness
Draw in the night
Draw in the sorrow
Lose sight of the light
Focus on the light
Drown out the darkness
Draw out the twinkle
That lives on ever after
Monday, April 15, 2013
Day 15 - #3 - Industrial Heritage
Inspired by a TEDTalk on Industrial Heritage by Timothy Scarlett:
Writing the biography of
a building
a machine
a kiln
a workplace
a residence
Dissecting and examining the remains
of all of the above
Tying the threads of
human history
the concrete jungle
the wild heritage roses
the industrial revolution
the aesthetics of industrial decline
What are we leaving for
the archeologists
the paleontologists
the curiosity seekers
of the future
to find
to dissect
to analyze
and to theorize
about?
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