full moon calls softly,
“come outside on deck tonight,
shadow dance with me…”
who can resist her silver?
moonstruck orcas leap with glee!
night tides
08 Sep 2025 9 Comments
in tanka Tags: dance, full moon, orcas, shadow, silver, whisper
worth wait/weight
30 May 2025 19 Comments
in trolaan Tags: dance, love, marriage, separation, wait
Think hard again before you leave
the partner you pledged to love;
That decision will certainly cleave
two hearts like a sacrificed dove.
How much value is in your word,
honor found deep in your soul?
Hold onto courage and fortitude
however love’s difficult toll.
Opposites do naturally attract
or eventually they may repel;
Often we give up, due to fact
of living in temporary hell.
Perhaps if given gracious chance
people can learn to change;
Pull partner closer in life dance,
pride aside, missteps rearrange.
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Linking to dVerse where Grace hosts with a new form: Trolaan, created by Valerie Peterson Brown, is a poem consisting of 4 quatrains. Each quatrain begins with the same letter (the second letter of previous stanza). The rhyme scheme is abab for each stanza.
he’s no wallflower
01 Aug 2023 23 Comments
in free verse Tags: dance, heart, onion, peel, tears
_______
you are a saute old fellow
whether gussy(sacked) up
in wine, ivory, gold yellow,
or tastefully seen in green!
_______
quite pungently romantic
and amorously aromatic
(though slippery-skinned)
you require running water
and sharp knife to cut in
fast as salsa dance partner
with hot peppers or garlic.
_______
as sweet layers peel off,
your heart risks exposure
but no fear, it’s not here
you prove elusive as ever
still eliciting tears wherever
you mince, slice or chop!
_______
Joining poetics at dVerse where Melissa hosts with onions on the menu!
joy of light series
30 Mar 2019 4 Comments
in haiku series Tags: aurora borealis, dance, lights, sky
XIII.
shimmering lights of
aurora borealis
dance in northern sky
pixabay image
Linking to CDHK and “joy of light” retreat…
tarantella
04 Aug 2018 2 Comments
in tanka Tags: bite, dance, piano, spider, tarantella
Folk music from southern Italy featured on Carpe Diem Haiku Kai .
feel venomous bite
pain and fevered frenzy rise
dance of wolf spider
son plays piano music
fingers bounce faster–faster!
postcard of barefoot life
11 Apr 2018 7 Comments
in haibun Tags: dance, dream, girl, gypsy, haystacks, horse, wagon
Chèvre at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai prompts us to write a “kikobun” (traveling haibun) on “gypsy” theme. Here’s my interpretation!
In my dream, I’m captured as a young girl by gypsies while visiting Europe. I leave walking trail to pick wild flowers in wooded area and am taken away by Romani people in a brightly painted wagon pulled by dappled horse. We wander the Van Gogh landscape of hilly vineyards and loose haystacks humped in fields, finding temporary day work for local farmers. Every evening, we circle round the flickering campfire, listening to lively songs and loud stories. I join in the dances, wearing my head scarf, peasant blouse and flowing skirt; barefoot in the dirt.
gold bangle bracelets
gypsy smiles flash in firelight
accordion plays
free vintage clip art
abstract glory
07 Aug 2017 4 Comments
in haiku Tags: autumn, dance, leaves, purple, sky
bleed red and purple
leaves sizzle across cool sky
autumn’s frenzied dance
Linking to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai; “autumn abstract” image by unknown artist.
an Ent-ful event
31 May 2016 1 Comment
in tan renga Tags: dance, Ents, snow, trees
My response to tan renga challenge at CDHK
Treebeard from wikipedia
Rumbling winter storm –
Ents are dancing with their wives –
ancient limbs entwined
© Paloma
celebrate bark-won battles
snow settles on grateful trees
(c) lynn__
spring notes
03 May 2016 10 Comments
in tan renga Tags: dance, flute, leaves, music, spring, trees
Playing with tan renga form at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai…
shadows of leaves
cover the open holes
her flute forgotten (© Jane Reichhold)
she dances with woodland nymphs
notes floating on music of trees
(c) lynn__
decades of dance
02 May 2016 22 Comments
in quadrille Tags: dance, music, skip, twist
courtly quadrille folk dance
waltzing matilda, she cancan
charlie does the charleston
c’mon baby, let’s twist
square skip your pardner
locomotion make love potion
disco dancin’, groovy prancin’
strut like king tutankhamen
play macarena on ocarina
from bebop to hip-hop,
music gonna move us!
A quadrille is a folk dance or a poem of exactly 44 words, not including title. At dVerse Poets Pub today, we’re writing quadrilles with the word “skip”.
quadrille in 44 words
18 Jan 2016 17 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: ballet, dance, Nutcracker, tickets
Check out d’Verse Poets where Bjorn is hosting the pub’s first quadrille…
This poem is dedicated to my cultured friend, Karen D.K. 🙂
publicdomainpictures.net – Petr Kratochvil
my friend and i
thrill to quadrille
in beginning scene
of Tchaikovsky’s
beloved Nutcracker
when professional
ballet company
dazzles our rural
community and
invites local youth
to dance dreams staged
as mice and soldiers,
angels, snowflakes,
candy canes or
polichinelles…
and we have tickets!!
time passages
13 Jan 2015 2 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: dance, fall, joy, leaves, time
Linking to Carpe Diem’s time glass challenge
leaves let go of fear
fall free, float on air, swirl down
celebrate changes.
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letting go self-consciousness,
we can twirl life’s dance with joy!
a poem in my pocket 
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