ashes to ashes
accept own mortality
from dust back to dust
human life is fragile when
disease or disaster strikes
temporal
23 Feb 2026 2 Comments
in Uncategorized, senryu Tags: ashes, death, dust, mortality
crumbling lady edifices crucifix
17 Apr 2019 9 Comments
in free verse, story Tags: crucifix, dust, flame, heaven, hymn, island, pyre, smoke, towers
Dark-vowelled smoking columns aspire ruin
as dust-tongued, forested roof caves innavely;
water-spoken island surrenders to timbers
of flamed and lillified heaven-circling pyre.
Aghast of tragedy, fire-dwarfed gargoyles are
hearting a tear-culled Paris in hymnally tone
to dignify bell-voiced ash of towering ages;
above rubble, The King’s cross, power-gilded stands.
Linking to dVerse poetics with Laura Bloomsbury and loving the hyphenate-coined words by poet Dylan Thomas (as featured in my poem).
fragile beauty
14 Sep 2018 2 Comments
in tan renga Tags: butterfly, dust, milkweed, monarch, traffic, truck
Tan renga “chained together” at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai…
between dusty cars
an orange butterfly flits
the traffic rumbles – Kim Russell
truck hauls grain down gravel road
cloud of dust covers milkweed
– lynn
photo by lynn
dust to dust
28 May 2017 5 Comments
in tanka Tags: cemetery, destiny, dust, eternity, stone
Link to Sammi Cox’s weekend prompt on “destiny”.
no survivors here
man wrestles with destiny
life’s dash etched in stone
listen in cemetery
silence of eternity
“But still, like dust, I’ll rise” – Maya Angelou
photo by lynn
inexorable time
17 Jan 2017 1 Comment
in senryu Tags: dust, journey, time
In response to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai “Road to Santiago” word: time
where will journey lead?
wisdom contemplates life’s end
we return to dust
- photo by lynn – Floyd Cemetery, Sioux City
my dust bunny’s bigger
13 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in american sentence, sevenling Tags: bag, dust, suck, vacuum
The day you tell your vacuum to “suck it up” but bag’s full to bursting.
An “american sentence” of 17 syllables. Here’s to a clean new year!
O little town…
16 Dec 2016 10 Comments
in free verse, scripture Tags: Creator, dust, joy, town, universe
“You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.” –Isaiah 55:12
Everyone lives in a little town
obscure village, speck in space
lost in universe we are but dust
Creator sees, our father knows
us too intimately, enters a virgin
(god in a womb) angels sing glory!
He came and is coming still to
every little town, knocks at door
will you let great JOY move… inn?
sevenling (fantasy)
12 Apr 2016 25 Comments
in sevenling, Uncategorized Tags: diamonds, dust, gold, trees, wealth, wind
if dust were diamonds,
asphalt was gold, and
trees’ leaves paper money,
we’d sneeze on greed
drive over wealth, con~
sider banks quite funny!
fantastical, our discontent would blow away with wind~
Linking to dVerse Poetics with Lillian on “fantasy” theme…
as the farmer…life
24 Oct 2014 18 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: corn, dust, farmer, rain, soybeans, wind
as intense eyes
scan darkening skies,
playful wind flaps shirt sleeves.
as strong shoulders
stack square hay bales,
rising dust covers tanned skin.
as nimble feet
climb grain bin ladder,
straw chaff infiltrates flaxen hair.
as skillful hands
manipulate diverse tools,
old grease wedges under fingernails.
as experienced ears
attune engines musical noise,
stale soybeans nest in jean pockets.
as determined teeth
test corn kernel moisture,
rich manure clings to chore boots.
as gentle arms
carry bawling calf or kitten,
pelting rain drips off seed cap bill.
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This is a “list poem”,
inspired by and dedicated to my farmer.
Linked to d’Verse Poets
a poem in my pocket 
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