posting poetic prose
30 May 2019 3 Comments
in tan renga Tags: crane, lonesome, rain, sadness, white
Carpe Diem invites us to create a tan renga in response to this haiku which Kikaku wrote for his mentor, Basho, when Basho lay ill and dying…
how I wish to call
a white crane from Fukei
…but for this cold rain.
© Kikaku
listen…white crane’s lonesome cry
echos torrential sadness
© lynn__
wood block print by Eiichi Kotozuka
22 May 2019 12 Comments
in ekphrastic, haiga Tags: bayou, horizon, humidity, rain, squall, storm, water
This week, Sarah Southwest hosts dVerse poetics and invites us to write ekphrastic poetry featuring artwork by Mary Frances from her “New Worlds in Old Stones”…
11 Apr 2019 8 Comments
in distillation, free verse Tags: bales, bridges, cattle, clouds, dam, flood, ice, mud, rain, snow
Linking late to Linda’s “water” prompt at dVerse poetics…
water, water, water, everywhere!
dark clouds broiling across plains’
hard-crusted snowy landscape; soil
soaked by heavy rains, washes into
half-frozen rivers, ice breaks loose
floating icebergs grind along banks
dragging down bridges, trees, poles;
pressured dam gives way into torrent
that floods downstream in spreading
wave that engulfs barns, farmhouses’
families escape on muddy roads while
cattle are trapped on shrinking islands
hay bales swept away, fields ruined and
Nebraska is once again a broad ocean…
22 Aug 2018 3 Comments
in etheree Tags: creek, farmers, flood, groundwater, rain, summer, thirst, wet
Elsie at Ramblings of a Writer challenges us to write a poem using “water” and “thirst”. Mine is an “etheree” with ten lines, each of increasing syllables.
wet
when it
rains it pours
saturation,
precipitation,
weather aberration
water cannot drain away
groundwater rises, creek beds flood
farmers, crops and lawns thirst for sunshine
iowa’s summer uncommonly wet!
25 Jun 2018 37 Comments
in haibun Tags: farmers, flood, hay, mud, oil, rain, rivers, sheep, soil
enough rain here five to six inches already and counting with basements filling and ditches flowing as swollen rivers carry away sheep too frightened to move to higher ground and wash out culverts which derailed a train of oil tanker cars spilling into the flooded fields and seeping downstream calling out hazmat teams and trucks hauling rocks while farmers groan at wet hay rotting crops covered with silt and black soil carried away and why must it rain another day?
farmers grow webbed feet
wading through muddy season
who’s building that ark?
road wash-out next to flooded field
Jilly at dVerse poets encourages writers to “break the rules” with this week’s haibun. Our local weather has been unconventional too….and destructive.
22 Jun 2018 5 Comments
in couplet Tags: ball, couplets, hot, June, rain, summer, sun
Rhyming couplets with Frank at dVerse…
notice yesterday’s date marked june twenty-one
means every day now we’ll see less of the sun
calendar says it was first day of summer
heat and humidity might be a bummer
we’ve had plenty of rain, thick clouds hide the sun
a hot sunny day watching ball sounds like fun!
22 May 2018 24 Comments
in quadrille Tags: clouds, hair, humidity, mind, mist, mood, rain, reign, veil
Kim at dVerse Poets hosts “rain” quadrille (44 words) prompt this week…
mist hangs thin veil
covers landscape,
shrouds horizon.
sky heavy with humidity
air’s mood presses in,
mildly claustrophobic;
when clouds cannot rain.
hair hangs thick veil
covers face,
shrouds emotion.
heart heavy with futility
mind’s mood presses in,
wildly claustrophobic;
when tears cannot reign.
08 May 2018 2 Comments
in haiku, troiku Tags: branches, buds, green, leaves, life, rain, renewal, spring
Kristjaan at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai features “troiku” (each line of initial haiku is beginning line of three more haiku in a series). I wrote my own haiku to begin…
bare branches burst forth
spring budding freshly green leaves
renewal of life
bare branches burst forth
photo by lynn
birds improvise on treesong
winter’s day is done
spring buds fresh green leaves
young rabbits nibble new grass
first tulips open
renewal of life
gentle scent follows spring rain
promise of apples
10 Mar 2018 2 Comments
in cinquain Tags: bloom, bud, bunny, crocus, nature, rain, spring
Cinquain is a 5-line poem with a pattern of 2-4-6-8-2 syllables. The Weekend Writing Challenge is to include these words: spring, blossom, bud, nature, bloom.
trees bud
spring rains softly
nature’s fresh bloom of praise
hungry bunny nibbles crocus
blossom
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in magnetic Tags: black dress, forest, lake, rain, storm, wind
06 Jun 2017 34 Comments
in magnetic Tags: death, dreaing, peaches, rain, rose, storm
24 May 2017 7 Comments
in quadrille Tags: clothesline, cloudburst, rain, sidewalk, umbrella, vine
pitter – pat – patter
google free image
on sidewalk
spitter – spat – spatter
on windowpane
beads drip
from
clothesline
baubles drop
from
leafed vine
gutters gurgle
cheerily
rivulets burble
merrily
umbrella unfolds
earthworm unholes
birdsong stills as
rain gauge fills
lightning tumbles
thunder rumbles
cloudburst pours
find shelter indoors!
Quadrille prompt on “sound” ideas with Victoria at dVerse…
a poem in my pocket 
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