For Sammi’s weekend writing prompt.
Breeze
Rushing by,
Ever-changing
Vitality —
Is it gone,
To fade with
Yesteryears?
Loss
Mist
For Fandango’s Flashback Friday, I have a poem from June 17th, 2019 (still exploring that particular poetry notebook). It turns out that this was a Quadrille, a 44-word poem, so I might have posted it the day it was written. if it was a response to a DVerse Quadrille Monday. Also linking to FOWC: Possible.
Shall I fret if the future is in mist?
Is the path happy even without seeing?
Can someone guide, grasping gently my wrist,
Pulling me forward, when I am hesitating?
Shall the guide leave, possibly as a surprise?
Is there mist in my eyes?
Décima: Future Uses
Even though Ronovan Writes no longer hosts a décima challenge, from time to time I still like to write in that form. Today I used “future” as my jumping-off point, and the MVB and FOWC one-word prompts helped to inspire the rest of the poem.
It turns out that this is only tangentially related to “future” — this is the future that doing all that stuff in high school was supposed to prepare me for and make better. For a long time, I’ve felt like I’ve wasted all of that, and what I hadn’t wasted all by myself was stolen from me. 😦 😦 😦 But maybe that wasn’t wasted. Lou’s comment on my sijo made me rethink, just a bit. I’d never actually thought, “Maybe it wasn’t wasted!”
I write all that as a way of saying, I didn’t have to force this somewhat-optimistic ending today.
My academic achievements
Could not prepare me for real
Difficulty, nor help to heal,
For the pain of waste is intense.
Did that hard work have recompense?
Not in the way one likely guessed
But it was wise to do my best.
A certain success foreshadowed,
But forced down a different road,
Worked hard to pass another test.
I liked calculus and was pretty good at it — but I always hated real-life change.
Night and Day
For Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge, “Night and Day,” here is my response. I am only one day late! 🙂
I looked through my photos from my first year of college, when I lived on campus and when I used to take photos of the flowers all the time, any time of the day. Looking back, I see that I had a lot of fun giving them creative titles, and also probably never deleted a single one!
Unfortunately, I’m having trouble uploading any more photos. There were 2 more that I wanted to share. Here is a little poem I just wrote:
Keep?
Vanish
The petals,
The day and night,
Memory is left —
Looking at these,
We can be
Happy
Still.
I hesitated, but…
A reverse cherita, written while hiding in the restroom of a bookstore, so that the person involved would not see me cry (yet).
There are multiple reasons, but there's one That makes me seem altruistic: I'll tell you That you shouldn't need to deal with me. I love you, but this has gone on for long Enough now, I'm collecting my thoughts, writing goodbye Gotta get back out there, pretend I wasn't crying.
The Trees are Swimming
For MLMM’s Photo Challenge #416, Saturday Mix: Opposing Forces, and FOWC: Replaceable.
The trees are swimming, The sky is water -- The floor is the ceiling It seems, the shelter Topsy-turvy, I am Exposed to a world unknown, Unfortunately not replace -Able with the previous.
photo credit: Lerida
Our Lady
Loss is part of your sorrow,
And you know that God has
Done marvels, Magnificat anima mea
You proclaim; may I echo.
I’m not sure exactly what prompted this but had wanted to write this acrostic for a few days and finally filled it in today.
Deep Emotions
I am not feeling forlorn or despairing today but just wanted to share that. Here is a poem I wrote today on a similar theme:
Out of compassion,
My soul yearns for connection —
In my heart always
Even if you forget me
Memory will be precious
…
I want to be a part of it —
The biggest hug in the entire world.
I want to be engulfed, enveloped,
Held by Love itself, and feel
The biggest hug in the entire world.
But there are gunshots and I cry instead.
Tree Branches
I just wrote this “Parallelogram de Crystalline” poem (a new form for me!) for MLMM’S Saturday Mix: Lucky Dip and Photo Challenge #414, as well as for FFFC #169. I wanted to post my response before the new one is posted tomorrow, hence the late hour. Yes, 9:30 is late for me. 😆
I will try this form again tomorrow!
Tree branches
Stark against the blue sky --
Observer's eyes looking up, reaching
This world I'd
Too big for one tree to
Reach -- even if it were a banyan
The world of
One coffee shop, open
Via phones to all people online
Everyone
Connected in a web,
But can you reach beside you, two feet?
Photo credit: Tanya Grant
Photo from abi ismail at unsplash.com
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