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Repost: Ghazal
This is a re-post of a ghazal that I wrote a couple of years ago. I am sharing with DVerse for this month’s poetry form.
Liberated
Today I have written a mirror cinquain, inspired by the talk at my women’s group this morning.
Stories
We tell ourselves
Are much too limited:
Larger love embraces all things,
We see
One day
How all of it works together,
Untethered to ourselves,
Letting it go
We’re free
Love Notes Never Written
This poem is not written about anyone in particular, but when I thought about the SoCS: Note prompt, I thought about love notes. I don’t think I’ve ever received a romantic letter or even a note.
Silence
Means loneliness:
Love notes never written
When someone is truly smitten
With him.
So speak
How love has snuck
Up on one's waiting heart,
As it beats it's feeling complete
With him.
Kitty Cat
My last photo for April 2024 is of my cat Oscar coming out of the bathtub (no water in it, he just loves the bathtub). I had to keep the shower door closed after this so that he wouldn’t spend hours in the tub.
Seasons Come and Go
Winter, spring, summer, and fall:
Each year a reprisal of them all,
Winter turns to spring, and the call
Is never to forget the past.
An Ovi about seasons for Ronovan Writes’s weekly challenge and for the final day of NaPoWriMo. Also for FOWC: Reprisal.
Love Leaked Out
Yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write a sijo, and I’m bummed that I missed it. I have a sijo to share today, anyway. 🙂 This was inspired by my neighbor’s funeral, which my family attended today. My other neighbor saw that I was crying and said, “God gave you those tears. That’s your love.”
Love leaked out of my blue-sky eyes, when we said good-bye today:
Tears could not help but come out, like a sudden summer storm,
But I know now you are smiling, looking down from the Father’s house
Believe
Believe
And receive grace
And a place of welcome:
Come home, and your soul will find rest,
The best.
The Future
I have 2 senryu to share today. One is a response to Linda’s SoCS: Show.
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deferred not denied:
in God’s timing not in mine
heart’s greatest treasure
show me my future
so that I know I have one –
is it fabulous?
Fulfillment
Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt was about alliteration, consonance, and assonance. I use those often in my poems already and tried to use them in this poem, but it’s probably not enough to be considered “on-prompt.”
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Fulfillment:
Commune with Love itself,
Endless joy in the presence of God
Be at peace:
Heaven and Earth will be
Reborn for an era of beauty
This homeland
The soul is searching for:
It will be yours, and the wait is short
Worthiness
I was thinking about my ex and how I’ll never be worthy of him. I was lucky enough to be his girlfriend once; it’s not going to happen again. Then I saw that the daily prompt at My Vivid Blog was “image,” and that inspired this poem:
A worthy human
Made in the image of God
Called for a purpose
Even if he does not see
All that grace can do in me
It’s similar to another poem I wrote this month, but that’s because this theme comes up a lot for me.
Victory
No, I did not get a job yet, nor did I get my driver’s license. In fact, I did some very bad driving when I went out practicing today. Thankfully, no one was hurt. I wrote this little poem because I am feeling a little more confident:
Victory
Is now attainable
Through determination and effort
It may hurt
At times to work so hard
But perseverance has its reward
Do my best
Never ever give up
No matter how much time it’s taking
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