hellish laughter
disciples inconsolable
women go to weep
earth trembles
lightning strikes
angel descends
dead man alive
live guards dead
officially signed
sealed and delivered
heaven has last laugh!
april fools?
01 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in free verse Tags: alive, angel, dead, laughter, lightning, resurrection
planting poet-tree
31 Mar 2018 16 Comments
in tanaga Tags: dove, fruit, love, plant, poet, tree
time to plant a poet-tree
gently dig a loamy hole
water roots creatively
fertilize with wit and soul
nurtured by attentive love
sapling poet-tree will grow
spread out branches, shelter dove
harvest of ripe fruits bestow
The tanaga form is part of an oral tradition going back to the early 16th century (eg. Twinkle, twinkle little star). It comes in stanzas of four lines with seven syllables per line. It often rhymes, even rhyming each line of a stanza on the same rhyme sound, but it can have variable rhyme patterns. It can also have more than one stanza. Frank hosts tanaga prompt at dVerse Poets.
triduum
29 Mar 2018 11 Comments
in haiku series, senryu Tags: blood, body, cross, Jesus, passover, sacrifice
Linking to Frank Tassone’s haiku challenge…
maundy thursday meal
passover lamb serves supper
taste body and blood
good friday trial
soldiers nail God to wood beams
love’s great sacrifice
silent saturday
women weep while Jesus sleeps
he will rise again!
1510 fragment – Matthias Grunewald, Netherlands
INRI stems from the Latin phrase ‘Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum‘ meaning ‘Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews’. This was the notice Pontius Pilate nailed to the cross.
haiku (in)fusion
29 Mar 2018 2 Comments
in haiku Tags: fusion, iris, silk, starlight, water
Chèvre at CDHK challenges us to create a haiku through “fusion” of the following:
rabbit-ear iris
how much it looks like
its image in water
© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)
And…
a silk tree
even through the leaves weary
of starlight
© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)
My “fusion: of the two:
rabbit-ear iris
bends weary leaves toward water
silk reflects starlight
© lynn__
affluenza
29 Mar 2018 4 Comments
in shadorma Tags: chocolate, food, temptation
temptation
when food becomes god
resisting
relapsing
(giving up chocolate for lent?)
disordered eating
A shadorma poem (Spanish form) of 6 lines with 3-5-3-3-7-5 syllable count.
grandma’s bait shop
28 Mar 2018 16 Comments
in free verse, story Tags: bike, boats, clouds, cottage, garden, petunias, pier
it’s a sunny-side up
Pixabay image
happy-spatula kind of day
outgoing fish boats bob:
“goodbye, dear old pier”
children find glinty pebbles
to hopscotch village street
under random puffs of
gourmet popcorn clouds
reflection of blue-er sky,
grandma’s retro/deco bike
blooms petunia pink
beside faded stucco cottage
outback/inside pickety fence
she digs in earthworm garden
boy swings dilapidation’s gate;
hook-line fresh on bamboo pole
Linking cheer at dVerse Poets pub today…
slightly cracked
26 Mar 2018 33 Comments
in quadrille, shape poem Tags: egg, humor, spring, write, yolks
you may
call me egg-head
for trying to write a
spring quadrille of eggs
-actly forty-four words (now
you know that forty-four counts
as one word, right?) and also for
making this poem egg-shaped,
(simply eggs-ceptional) just
don’t egg me on to pen
more yolks!
Kim hosts an “egg” quadrille prompt for dVerse Poets this week before Easter…
beauty in the moment
26 Mar 2018 2 Comments
in haiku, quote Tags: hibiscus, moment, monarch, nectar
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
-Rabindranath Tagore
life’s sweet brevity
photo by lynn
hibiscus beckons monarch
offering nectar
palms for alms
25 Mar 2018 2 Comments
in haibun, senryu, troiku, worship Tags: beggar, hosanna, Jerusalem, Jesus, King, palms
I am that beggar on the ancient road of cobbled stones in Jerusalem, begging alms in the city of the king, near David’s tomb. The Passover crowds pass by me on their way through the golden gate to the Temple mount, singing songs of ascent. I limp out of the chaotic throng, pressing my back against the stone wall and clutching my empty cup. What is that I hear? Shouts of “Hosanna, save us”! Now I see ecstatic children waving palm branches before a rabbi astride a young horse; no, he rides a humble donkey. As they pass, Jesus looks into my eyes; a gaze that overwhelms me with compassion. I pick up a palm frond as the shofar sounds the call to worship: “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”
crowds shout hosannas
rejoice in the coming king
my cup overflows
royalty free stock photo
mortal immortality
22 Mar 2018 22 Comments
in free verse, scripture Tags: breath, eternity, flame, keeper, life, soul
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. -Genesis 2:7 (KJV)
the soul
is a spark
is a flicker
is a flame
lit by holy fire
fanned by living breath
exhaled into existence
encoded in DNA
embodied in flesh
enveloped in love
to live
to learn
to laugh
to lament
until death separates.
never extinguished
ever released
to an eternity of life’s choice:
with or without the Keeper of souls.
Inspired, in part, by the scribblings of the beautiful souls who are dVerse Poets.
wysteria myst
21 Mar 2018 7 Comments
in haiku Tags: moonlight, purple, tears, wisteria
From Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, a haiku to “revise”:
in the moonlight,
the color and scent of the wisteria
seems far away
© Yosa Buson (1716-1784)
___________
hear flute softly weep
pale purple tears in moonlight
dropping over wall
© lynn__
image – CDHK
chillin’
20 Mar 2018 2 Comments
in classical haiku Tags: breeze, robin, snow, spring
Writing prompt at Ramblings of a Writer using words “arrived” & “breeze”.
wet flakes fall steady
spring arrived without a breeze
robin hops in snow
a poem in my pocket 
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