posting poetic prose
03 Apr 2019 12 Comments
in cascade Tags: blood, breath, cross, death, firstborn, forsaken, son, tomb, wood
firstborn son cruelly beaten
pierced, hung on rough cross
dark blood trickles down wood
utterly forsaken by God
cries out in deep agony
firstborn son cruelly beaten
releases his final breath
pagan soldiers insure death
pierced, hung on rough cross
bruised body claimed, wrapped
gently laid in bare, stony tomb
dark blood trickles down wood
Requiem written in cascade form…linking with Amaya’s prompt at dVerse.
06 Mar 2019 19 Comments
in free verse, scripture Tags: breath, death, Ecclesiastes, life, preacher, vanity, world
Join dVerse Poets where Lillian quotes Eccles. 3: 1-8, a time for everything.
“all is vanity,” says the preacher
life’s breath ~ “chasing after wind”
somewhere in the weary world
newborn baby first sucks in air
toddler tosses pebbles into pond
young girl twirls a wedding dance
farmer plants seed in hope of harvest
lovers laugh to embrace ~ weep, to not
developer digs dirt in hope of homes
man grieves loss of beloved wife
old woman stacks stones on beach
dying man expires with final sigh
somewhere in the weary world
“all is vanity,” says the preacher
life’s breath ~ “chasing after wind”
17 Feb 2019 2 Comments
in tanka Tags: coyote, death, howl, prey, rabbit, scent, snow
shadowed rabbit tracks
blue moon illuminates snow
coyote’s eerie howl
keen nose follows scent of prey
end is mercifully swift
Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai invites us to find a haiku from our archives and re-write it. I decided to post a haiku I submitted to a poetry contest last year…and make it a tanka. Death is part of life in our natural world.
19 Sep 2018 2 Comments
in american sentence, senryu Tags: dark, death, emotions, hope, light, stop, suicide
September is Suicide Prevention month…linking with Ramblings of a Writer for “emotions & healing” prompt.
We never know the black hole into which another soul has fallen…
darkest emotions
troubles press into death wish
Stop! glimpse healing light
In U.S. call: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – Call 800-273-TALK (8255)
31 Aug 2018 6 Comments
in haibun Tags: breath, death, emotion, grave, mercy, morning, peace
Dear God, why does everyone have to die? One by one, we leave this world cold and those left standing feel abandoned, depressed, hurt, and angry. We know that you understand deep emotion. After all, you lost your only Son…and that son wept at the grave of his friend. We believe you mourn with us. Yes, our final enemy wields a cruel stinger but you took the sting out of death for Uncle Raymond (“Rip”). You called him quietly in his sleep; he passed unexpectedly, without suffering. Thank you, Father, for your mercy, even in his final breath. We grieve but he rejoices, celebrating in your presence today; reunited with his wife, son, and sisters. He fell asleep in mysterious darkness and woke to a glorious morning!
Raymond (right) died in early morning of brother Willis’ 90th birthday (8-18-18)
05 Jul 2018 6 Comments
in haiku Tags: dandelion, death, fragile, life, seed, sleep
life force strong but a
puff will scatter fragile seed
sleep…a breath from death
image & idea from Carpe Diem
19 May 2018 5 Comments
in haiku series, troiku Tags: bell, butterflies, death, flowers, hope, mothers
CDHK weekend fusion challenge: fuse two haiku, then create troiku…
temple bells die out
the fragrant blossoms remain
a perfect evening
will we meet again
here at your flowering grave –
two white butterflies
© Basho
church bells’ somber ring
fragrance of casket flowers
butterflies wing hope
© lynn
church bell’s somber ring
ask for whom is it tolling?
time waits for no one
fragrance of casket flowers
roses, daisies, carnations
florals dress-up death
butterflies wing hope
loved by two mothers, i know
we will meet again
03 Apr 2018 2 Comments
in shadorma Tags: death, double, hate, lovers, shadow, suicide
A shadorma is a 6 line poem with 3-5-3-3-7-5 syllable counts.
in shadow
motivation comes
suicide
double death
why two lovers hate themselves?
asphyxiation
Many years ago, a teenage co-worker, Barry, and his girlfriend died together in his car running inside a garage. I still sadly wonder…why? Tonight, we discuss suicide at NAMI support group.
24 Jan 2018 10 Comments
in free verse, story Tags: apple, cyanide, death, eve, poison, sin
What strange poison
did woman reach
for in the garden?
mother of all living bit into death for all
Was it a stinging tree
that touched her with
heart-shaped leaves?
intoxicating nature of toxic relations
Was she anesthetized
by curare-tipped dart
from satan’s blowpipe?
it can kill as easily as it can cure
Would eve even
succumb to snakeroot,
from salesman selling herbs?
fruit to make wise and pleasing to eyes
Would she suspect
the seeds of lovely apple
convey hydrogen cyanide?
seed of deception is sin, fruit of sin is death
05 Dec 2017 15 Comments
in quadrille Tags: abortion, death, infant, life, mother
how long believe
blind rhetoric?
why hire doctors
to do harm?
instrumental rape
violates mother with child
what kind of ghastly
choice is offered?
by salt poisoning, chemicals,
or crunch of infant skull
when will men honor
mothers’ calling?
where have hope’s
children gone?
Linking with dVerse Poets quadrille prompt…sorry this topic is neither pleasant nor Christmasy. Yet our brokenness and sin is why Christ came…as an infant to a poor, young woman in seemingly scandalous circumstances. Would we have aborted Jesus?
19 Oct 2017 6 Comments
in haiku series, senryu Tags: cemetery, death, headstone, live, prayer, spirit
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai celebrates 5 years! Revisiting theme: on our way home…
music in clinic
contemplate own funeral
face mortality
_______
reading old headstones
on walk through cemetery
how did eddy end?
_______
morning prayer time
Spirit’s breath fill us more
to live while we can
photo by lynn
06 Jun 2017 34 Comments
in magnetic Tags: death, dreaing, peaches, rain, rose, storm
