Old brown leaves
Purple pushes through
Life renews
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This was written for Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge. This week were asked to write either a haiku or a senryu. I chose a haiku. And, yes, I have used that crocus in several posts this last week ;)
Fish in the river
Swimming along with the flow
Doesn’t see the bird
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Written for Colleen’s Poetry challenge. Each week she gives us two keywords, only we must use synonyms only, not the words themselves. This week we were free to choose keywords and the key words I chose were “Water” and “Current” This week I decided to do a haiku, and though that rhymes, the haiku doesn’t ;).
(Last week’s poem was called “Life ;)”, but this is the other side of Life…)
Sunlight on deep snow
Bright red cardinal on the branch
Thaws the frozen heart
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Bind me with your words
Colorful letters on page
Bare your soul to me
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(Originally posted 7/22/2014)
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A while ago I put up a half joke of a post tying silly meanings to shallow poems. Before that I posted why I use the tools of poetry to help my prose. Today I want to go a little deeper and talk about why people write “real” poetry and why we actually read it. Continue reading
Sunset over frozen Swan Pond
Cold winter evening
Quiet world wears a coat of ice
Distant spring a dream
The mask that you see
Shows, not hides reality
I am always me
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Hold on a sec’ while I adjust my blogging mask. There, much better.
OK, now where was I? Oh yes, continuity of self. Continue reading
Rain steadily falls
World frozen grey comes to halt
Why can’t I stop too?
The world in my ear
Memories of distant lands
The music plays on
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Imagine – in the past music was heard only when somebody was actually playing it or in the privacy of one’s own head.
