Playing with magnetic poetry online (poet kit) and thinking of sister I never met, miscarried years ago…used words given at first try.
hot concrete
25 Jul 2019 2 Comments
in magnetic Tags: angel, born, child, ghost, prisoner, sister, universe
movement of life
23 Jul 2019 18 Comments
in free verse Tags: calf, foal, infant, live, monarch, movement, seed
salmon flash upstream
an urgency to breed
eggs float underwater
seed coat splits open
sprout pierces into light
leaf nodes bulge green
ripe chrysalis rips gently
wet monarch emerges
stretches sticky wings
moment of conception
multiple cell divisions
quickening in her womb
strong uterine contractions
now little hooves appear
cow licks fresh calf
mare wickers softly
new foal stands wobbly
searching for teat
chubby babe rolls over
sits up with support
takes first steps to daddy
Linking to dVerse poetics where Amaya invites us to write about movement…
crow on branch
23 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in classical haiku Tags: autumn, branch, crow, flies
Chevrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai offers us a beautiful haiku by renowned Japanese poet Matsuo Basho to “photoshop” (tweak) a little. Here’s my attempt:
kare eda ni karasu no tomarikeri aki no kure
on a bare branch
a crow has stopped
autumn dusk
© Basho (Tr. Stephen Wolfe)
bare tree branch sways with
dark crow’s weighty silhouette
autumn flies away
© lynn__
hashi-i
22 Jul 2019 2 Comments
in classical haiku, haiku Tags: book, cooling off, iced-tea, porch, sumac, summer
Linking to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai with this tanka…
sip book and iced tea
late summer sumac turns red
cooling off…on porch
sinking into old stuffed couch
before school begins again
climate change
17 Jul 2019 13 Comments
in quadrille, quote, scripture Tags: climate, earth, green, life, light, planet, sun, war
I’m linking this “sun/Son” quadrille (44 words) to dVerse Poets pub where we’re diving into the subject of climate crisis this week…
powerful star
commands our
entire system solar
glorious light
shines too bright
for human sight
his light maintains
so life sustains
planet’s green plains
will we war for
what we adore?
been done before
apostasy done
spiritual war won
when earth falls into sun
“Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.” (Psalm 2:12 KJV)
opening to lovelight
09 Jul 2019 4 Comments
in haiku, Uncategorized Tags: heart, lotus, love, pond, reflections
floating on black pond
mysterious lotus heart
~ deeper reflections ~
image: unsplash
frozen dreams
06 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in haiku series, troiku Tags: belly, holiday, ice cream, luscious, summer, truck, vanilla
Join Chevrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai for an ice cream “troiku” challenge!
snow fall in belly
adding lusciousness to feast 
vanilla ice cream
© S.D. Tiwari
snow fall in belly
pocket change for tinkling truck
cool summertime treat
adding lusciousness
to fruity pie a la mode
at holiday feast
vanilla ice cream
lactose intolerant now
such sweet memories
Free…to live right
04 Jul 2019 2 Comments
in american sentence, Uncategorized
Instead of seeking to be great, may Americans seek to be good!
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of the government…[but] upon all of us to govern ourselves…to sustain ourselves according to the ten commandments of God.”
– James Madison, founding father & U.S. President 1809-1817
boondocker sticker shock
30 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in haiku series, tan renga, tanka Tags: cactus, cholla, desert, sunset, teddy bear
Renga series linked to weekend challenge at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai…
among dune grass
silver bleached logs
and a perfect day
we gather sticks for campfire
share stories of desert lore
desert sunset
cholla cactus sticks
to the light
gaze on painted desert sky
day ends in glorious flames
desert ways
branching all over
cholla cactus
slowly spreads across landscape
thick barrier to hikers
alone and asking
to be touched
teddy bear cholla
appears to be cuddly (not)
waits to stick barbs into you
overcoming rocks
a stream of cacti
slowly spreading
pieces fall to ground and sprout
sink roots down in desert sand
writing
desert poems
pencil cholla
words jump sharply like cactus
hope to make impressive point
Haiku verses © Jane Reichhold
Tanka responses © lynn__
written in wee hours of a restless night
28 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in scripture Tags: desperation, disappointment, hope, quiet, rage, Skillet
we live sad
(a)pathetic lives of
(un)quiet desperation in
rage, regrets, disappointment
isolated in an individual world, we
desire to be loved but do not know how;
bravely smiling on outside, slowly dying inside
how are you? ‘i’m fine’ is our standard line (really?)
looks like we, our family, civilization may self-destruct
only a hero can save us now — our hope is that God will!
__________
“For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, ‘In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and trust shall be your strength.’ But you were unwilling…Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
– Isaiah 30:15 & 18
summer synchronicity
26 Jun 2019 17 Comments
in quatrain, rhyming verse Tags: dusk, fireflies, garden, june bug, rhubarb, slug, snake
Wandering past my dusky wet garden
twilight meets me, dancing with fireflies
cicadas serenade blades of tall ditch grass
pink clouds palely kiss soft lavender skies
Wondering if snake stripes glow nocturnal,
i startle at whirred flight of june beetle bug
humid air oppressed by scant scent of skunk
rippled rhubarb leaf umbrellas sleeping slug.
See Laura’s prompt at dVerse Poets inspired by naturalist poet, Laurie Lee. He sought simplicity in his poetry; often written in 1st person, quatrain form, ABCB rhyme.
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