withered leaves on wind
when life-giving flow dries up
let thoughtless words go
Response to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai’s prompt on “withered leaves” and John Piper’s devotional, Words for the Wind.
spoiler alert
19 Nov 2018 19 Comments
in quadrille, Uncategorized Tags: brother, car, driver, races, spoiler
A quadrille of 44 words for dVerse poetics…
Dad took us to stock car races,
figure 8’s, Indy racetrack tour:
our family waiting at famous light
tower for bus driver to announce,
“Gentlemen, start your engines!”
Mom was relieved my brother
didn’t put spoiler on first car or
choose Nascar driving career.
write time to renga
02 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in renga, Uncategorized Tags: magnolia, moths, peach tree, snail, sparrows, sun
A challenge to write Renga With Richard Wright: given six haiku, choose your own line-up and add your two-lined stanzas. (Richard’s original haiku in regular type, italic lines are my response stanzas.)
Make up your mind, Snail!
You are half inside your house,
And halfway out!
indecisive character
slugs reluctantly forward
I am nobody:
A red sinking autumn sun
Took my name away.
identity lost in awe
of sky’s changing expanse
Keep straight down this block,
Then turn right where you will find
A peach tree blooming.
remember, somewhere is spring;
hope’s sweet promises renew
One magnolia
Landed upon another
In the dew-wet grass.
end of summer, last blossoms
reveal time’s passing beauty
All right, You Sparrows;
The sun has set and you can now
Stop your chattering!
settle, winter is coming;
seasons advance through harvest
You moths must leave now;
I am turning out the light
And going to sleep.
body desires peaceful rest;
premonition of death’s kiss
© Richard Wright
© lynn
seasoned habitat
29 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: butterflies, flowers, golden, mountain, pheasant
A “fusion” haiku for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai‘s Crossroads Challenge…
a strange flower
for birds and butterflies
the autumn sky
© Basho
the pheasant cries
as if it just noticed
the mountain
© Issa
autumn on mountain
butterflies and flowers gone
pheasant’s golden cry
© lynn
pixabay free image
rural commute
25 Oct 2018 9 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: farms, gravel, machinery, neighbors, rural, seasons, tractor
Late to join the “journey” prompt at dVerse this week…thanks to our host, Sarah!
living rural still
requires frequent
road trips to town…
for needed groceries,
machinery parts,
or church events.
carefully back out of
narrow garage door
and swing out in arc
avoiding any randomly
parked ATVs, pickup or
farm machinery on yard
past garden and cattle
white-fenced driveway
turn on gravel road until
first crossroad where
choice is made: which
route to which town?
on a blacktop, pass
farms and acreages
of neighbors we know
signs of seasons and
progression of crops
odors of hog barns
past research farms
or busy cheese factory
slow down for yellow
school bus, red tractor
on road, wait at corner
for chromed semi-trucks
when “early” is a verb
24 Oct 2018 9 Comments
in rhyming verse, Uncategorized
when cows are mooing, hungry for hay
early me, early me, early the day
when love comes calling, sweetly we lay
early me, early me, early the day
when Spirit is whispering urge to pray
early me, early me, early the day
when open road beckons to journey away
early me, early me, early the day!
farmer’s dawn
23 Oct 2018 1 Comment
awake before sun
constellations blinking bright
cows’ hungry eyes shine
testing…
21 Sep 2018 2 Comments
Watching grand daughters and trying out NEW editor app on phone. Thanks, WordPress 🤓 …does anyone have a “grandma” app?!
climate change
30 Aug 2018 2 Comments
in tanka, Uncategorized
Ramblings of a Writer of a Writer poetry prompt using: climate/energy
sleep deprivation
changes climate of the mind
struggle to focus
crave sugar or caffeine boost
body lags for energy
voice of northern lights
23 Aug 2018 2 Comments
in haiku, music poem, Uncategorized Tags: fire, glacial, ice, stone, tundra, waves
Folk music of Iceland featured at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai…
undulating waves
over tundra, glacial stone
land of fire and ice
calligraphy serifs
06 Aug 2018 4 Comments
Chèvre at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai challenges us to write “fusion troiku”: combine two classic haiku into one, then use for first lines of haiku series of three…
before the white chrysanthemum
the scissors hesitate
a moment
calligraphy of geese
against the sky—
the moon seals it
© Yosa Buson (Tr. Robert Hass)
scent of cut blossom —
moon, like white chrysanthemum,
pale against dark sky
© lynn__
scent of cut blossoms
wafts delicate from altar
…fresh bridal bouquet
moon, like a white mum,
blooms full at summer solstice;
signs written in spheres
pale against dark sky
—revelations’ seven seals—
groom rides on white horse
who has ears to hear…
01 Aug 2018 14 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: demons, ears, fire, hell, silence, sin
Hell may
assault ears with
unearthly shrieks of
self-condemned rebels
tortured by vicious demons,
an infernal crackling
of eternal fire,
but worse yet
will be the
echoing miseries of sin,
utter absence of love,
awful silence of God.
