posting poetic prose
28 Jan 2015 6 Comments
in haiku Tags: Japanese, soup, vegetable, zooni
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Zooni is a traditional new year’s soup often served with mochi (rice cake).
Recipes vary by region (and taste).
Haiku linked to Carpe Diem…
27 Jan 2015 14 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: chemo, hair, hats, mother
her warm, dark eyes
watched perceptively,
beneath arched brow.
framed by her thick
brunette mane, cut short
as was her retirement.
she wore brimmed hats
for shade so her hair color
wouldn’t fade red in sun.
her coiffure was her crown,
until news of lung cancer
and chemo styled dread.
she fell ill with infection
that took her too quickly,
before chemo could begin.
at least, she was spared
losing her beautiful hair;
i wish i had one lock of it.
27 Jan 2015 2 Comments
in haiku Tags: fog, haze, sleep, thoughts
25 Jan 2015 5 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: death, home, life
this old house ain’t home
fly away to paradise
doorway to real life
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Link to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai today.
24 Jan 2015 4 Comments
in american sentence Tags: death, God, Jesus, relationship, religion, sword
Following a false religion might just be a subconscious death wish.
Yet we probably agree that he who lives by the sword, dies by it.
Desire a real relationship with God, not religiosity.
(“american sentences”: poems of one sentence containing 17 syllables)
1. religiosity. [ri lij′ē äs′ə tē]. noun. the quality of being religious, esp. of being excessively, ostentatiously, or mawkishly religious. (yourdictionary.com)
2. Religiosity is an inappropriate devotion to the rituals and traditions of a religion. (gotquestions.com)
23 Jan 2015 19 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: dirt, drips, snow, sun, thaw
gutter drips
january thaw
snow piles are shrinking away
sun warms bare branches of naked trees
dirt exposed
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Like cinquain: 5 lines, but “oddly”modified syllable pattern (see previous post).
Linking to Tony’s “meeting the bar” challenge at d’VersePoets!
23 Jan 2015 3 Comments
in cinquain Tags: cinquain, poetic form, sin
Definition
Cinquain:
five-line poem;
twenty-two syllables
laid out two, four, six, eight, then two
again.
-Tony Maude
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just messing around with cinquain form:
sin-quain poem
snarky malarky
odd syllabification
count: three, five, seven, nine; then three more
not a sin 🙂
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Tony came up with this same breaking of the form on d’Verse!
See my other Jan.23 post, “Don’t taste the slush” for another sample of this modified form…
21 Jan 2015 6 Comments
in haiku Tags: Japanese, long life, New Year, pheasant's eye
japanese new year
fukujusoo wishes you
good fortune, long life
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Linking to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai today…Happy New Year!
21 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in tenWord Tags: C.S. Lewis, humility, Mother Teresa
i. Humility:
not thinking less
of yourself; but
of yourself less.
ii. From humility
flow virtues of
kindness,
compassion,
empathy,
and respect.
Thoughts on humility distilled into tenWord poetic verses…
18 Jan 2015 7 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: birth, heartbeat, life, love
developing young one
photo by Lennart Nilsson
learns comfort of thumb
inside warm, watery world,
of safe and secret sanctuary
tiny ears tuned to listen
to thrum of momma’s heartbeat,
fetal heart swishes double-time
in syncopated love song
ineffable miracle of life,
daddy anticipates the birth
by considering unique name,
for precious persona.
18 Jan 2015 4 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: chai, coconut, cream, green, organic, tea
My response to Kristjaan’s “high tea” invitation!
zhena’s gypsy tea
coconut chai aroma
taste a splash of cream
17 Jan 2015 2 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: cloud, coyote, moon, shadow, window
Shiki, one of the Big Five haiku poets, wrote this in classical style:
when I looked back,
the man who passed
was lost in the mist
© Masaoka Shiki
his haunting haiku inspires my attempt as follows:
glance out my window
cloud wisps pass before half moon
glimpse coyote shadows
© lynn
See Carpe Diem Haiku Kai for prompt and more information.
a poem in my pocket 
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