posting poetic prose
08 Sep 2015 24 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: beach, refugees, tourists
Turkish peninsula is favored tourist destination. Rent a sailboat at local marina and explore a nearby cove’s cerulean waters, surrounded by lush green hills of olive, tangerine and palm trees. Or stroll the narrow, pebbly beach below Bodrum’s charming white stone houses with mud-thatched flat roofs. Swim with the fish by day, dance under stars by night.
body washed on beach
dinghy overturns in crossing
weep with refugees
06 Sep 2015 4 Comments
Linking to CDHK’s Space Odyssey episode…
cassiopeia
wheeling around northern sky
stars bear family name
“w” for wielenga
descendants of wheel-maker
05 Sep 2015 6 Comments
in tanka Tags: camel, camo, constellation, Isaac, Rebecca
Camelopardalis or the Giraffe constellation is a large, faint grouping of stars in the northern sky. The constellation was introduced in 1613 by Petrus Plancius to represent the animal Rebecca rode to marry Isaac in the Bible. One year later, Jakob Bartsch featured it in his atlas. Johannes Hevelius gave it the official name of “Camelopardus” or “Camelopardalis” because he saw the constellation’s many faint stars as the spots of a giraffe. (source: CDHK)
bridal caravan
camelopardalis night
brown eyes behind veil
restless groom scans horizon
rebecca comforts isaac
I have a thing for camels lately…
01 Sep 2015 21 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Qumran, scroll, watchman, Word
I have privilege of hosting dVerse poetics today with theme of “The Watchman” Won’t you join us?
go, set a watchman!
sheep herder found
high cave by sound
of stone tossed far,
heard crashing jar
held ancient scroll
preserved the whole
of Isaiah’s book
world scholars look
in prophecy
fulfilled it be
truth revealed
for all who see.
Isaiah penned
God’s script for men:
walk in my ways
be blessed your days.
he is just as he is good,
his timely words
our living food.
Deo volente,
we live, we breathe;
list watchman’s call
don’t turn away
lest judgement fall
oh, rue the day!
_______
image of the
prophet Isaiah
by sculptor,
Salvatore Revelli
31 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
Linking to Chèvre’s “jade” haiku prompt at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai today.
panther eyes flash jade
supermoon highlights velvet
exotic huntress
ID 29964744 © Volodymyr Byrdyak | Dreamstime.com
More info’ on “black panthers”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6przuR7ITfY
28 Aug 2015 20 Comments
Meeting the bar and modifying it at dVerse poets over-the-top prompt!
tortoise-ical tutor
obfuscately attempts
sea-weedy conversation
with dog-paddling spanglish
-as-a-second(third?)-
language student.
both adults, babble-on
with mermaid tongues,
wordy fusillade slippery
as school of lingual fish;
all eager shimmering scales
while meaning flip-flops crazily
across (un)intended beach.
perhaps it’s more than
enough (enough already!)
to sit smallish-ly together
on interpretation’s vast sands;
tossing vocabulary pebbles into
non-verbal waves of understanding.
27 Aug 2015 2 Comments
What I learned at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai (from Jane Reichhold): In Japanese, a traditional “dodoitsu” is composed of four phrases in 7-7-7-5 sound units. These were sung to accompaniment of a shamisen (banjo-like instrument with three strings). The subject matter was either love or humor.
I added rhyme because it’s our anniversary 🙂
honeysuckle image from dreams time
honey bee my honey dew
on our honeysuckle vine
soften me and sweeten you
pleasure’s yours and mine
26 Aug 2015 20 Comments
in question poem Tags: national anthem, patriotism, questions
Francis Scott Key wrote a poem, “The Star Spangled Banner” of four stanzas but we only sing the first as our national anthem (with the exception of home school graduation ceremonies). Here are the words to the final stanza…and my politically incorrect questions to fellow Americans and free thinking people everywhere!
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation;
who will stand ready to protect family and home
if we don’t dare bare arms against terrorists?
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserved us a nation!
who will give thanks for his providential blessings
if we trade precious freedoms for rainbow cakes?
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust”
who will stop evil and injustice in the world
if we only serve god of greed and money?
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
who will salute the symbol of brave freedom if
we traffick humanity and sell fetal body parts?
_________
Connecting with dVerse poets’ pub and Claudia’s look at national anthems…
24 Aug 2015 20 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: walk, weather, woolly worm
My thanks to Mary Stone of Garden Dilemmas, Delights & Discoveries for the woolly bear photo. Check out her garden blog!
photo credit: http://www.gardendilemmas.com
i meet five woollies on the road
as i walk under raincloud’s lode
drink in sad thoughts of faithful dog
her death leaves me in memory’s fog
collar’s empty, no tug on leash
it’s hard to walk alone…cah-peesh?
husband working and dad retired
my neighbor sits in class, inspired
so, fuzzy woolly, soft and brown
shyly inching ‘cross the ground
i’ll stroke you gentle as can be
oh, woolly, would you walk with me?
19 Aug 2015 9 Comments
in haiga Tags: creates, nature, reflects, Son of God, Word
Linking my haiga with CDHK where Chèvre discusses the theology of monophysitism…a new word for me 🙂
haiga/photo by lynn__
18 Aug 2015 31 Comments
in sonnet Tags: bus, home school, peer pressure, sibling
Swift summer spent, we know it’s back to school
when FedEx truck delivers loads of books.
To study here at home we think it’s cool
yet clueless people give us funny looks
because we never worry what we wear;
Change out of your pajamas, I must ask
then after chores, at least please comb your hair;
put on proud smile, you’re always top of class!
Peer pressure is a concept we don’t know
though sibling rivalry we understand.
Real life relationships can bloom and grow
when we learn side by side, walk hand in hand.
If there’s one thing home school deprived of us
we’d like, just once, to ride in yellow bus!
Linking to dVerse poetics where Gabriella’s prompt is “back to school”
17 Aug 2015 2 Comments
in tanka Tags: camel, pyramids, sand
Traveling to Sudan today with Chèvre at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai
huffingtonpost.com – getty images
kushite dynasties
pyramids north of khartoum
time’s sand will bury
caravans of rich tourists
camel attempts needle’s eye
a poem in my pocket 
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