24 Jan 2015
by lynn__
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.
By knowing Jesus, we come to understand that
God is truly love.
(“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
by lynn__
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
by lynn__
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
by lynn__
in haiku
Tags: Japanese, long life, New Year, pheasant's eye
This beautiful bloom is Pheasant’s eye, fukujusō, or New Year’s Day Plant. It grows in many mountainous areas of Japan. It begins to show new leaves in February or March and flowers with small bright yellow blossoms of 10 to 20 petals with a strong glow. Since the flowering time fell in the New Year season according to the lunar calendar, it was used as a decoration for the New Year, and so… some farmers grow it especially to flower for the First of January…The name actually means : Plant of good fortune and long life, “prosperity grass” or “longevity grass”. (information from CDHK, see link below)
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
by lynn__
in tenWord
Tags: C.S. Lewis, humility, Mother Teresa
“If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.” -Mother Teresa
i. Humility:
not thinking less
of yourself; but
of yourself less.
(C.S. Lewis)
ii. From humility
flow virtues of
kindness,
compassion,
empathy,
and respect.
Thoughts on humility distilled into tenWord poetic verses…
18 Jan 2015
by lynn__
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.
17 Jan 2015
by lynn__
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.
17 Jan 2015
by lynn__
in Uncategorized
(tenWord poetry form invented by Brian Miller at d’VersePoets)
Call it:
fate
karma
luck
chance
happen stance
…or Providence!
15 Jan 2015
by lynn__
in Uncategorized
Tags: bagel, breakfast, POP, shiny, toaster
i. shiny stainless toaster
SpRiNgs into action —
POP goes the bagel
ii. cream cheese spr ea d
on blueberry, butter smMeared
on cinnaMON–raisin
iii. quick AND easy breakfast
one more, “thanks mom”
gotta GO !
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More “tenWord” poetry!
15 Jan 2015
by lynn__
in Uncategorized
Tags: belief, disagree, ten, tolerance
“Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you. ” ~ Timothy Keller
I.
Tolerance is
not proven by
the absence
of strong belief.
II.
Tolerance is
evident by
how we treat
those who disagree.
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Link to Victoria (and Brian’s) tenWord challenge at d’Verse Poets
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