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October 23, 2019
OctPoWriMo 23 - An Ode to Dawn
Prompt: fur babies
Form: Ode
An Ode to Dawn
You knew what you liked;
I always felt blessed when you let me hold you.
With others, you’d struggle:
“Put me down!”
You liked to talk:
Meowing and purring and chirruping.
You wanted to be outside.
You thought we were so mean to keep you inside.
But we wanted to keep you safe.
I miss you.
Form: Ode
An Ode to Dawn
You knew what you liked;
I always felt blessed when you let me hold you.
With others, you’d struggle:
“Put me down!”
You liked to talk:
Meowing and purring and chirruping.
You wanted to be outside.
You thought we were so mean to keep you inside.
But we wanted to keep you safe.
I miss you.
October 22, 2019
OctPoWriMo 22 - I Broke My Heart
Prompt: Broken pieces
I Broke My Heart
I opened the door
Stepped off the edge
Fell into love
I thought I was soft
My heart open
But I shattered
I picked up the pieces
Glued together with gold
Better than I was
Kintsugi "is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum."
I Broke My Heart
I opened the door
Stepped off the edge
Fell into love
I thought I was soft
My heart open
But I shattered
I picked up the pieces
Glued together with gold
Better than I was
Kintsugi "is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum."
October 21, 2019
OctPoWriMo 21 - I Cannot Fix the World
Prompt: Screaming into the wind
I Cannot Fix the World
I am but one. I cannot fix
The world no matter what I do.
I do not have effective tricks.
I am but one. I cannot fix
Religion, earth, or politics
When you refuse to see what’s true.
I am but one. I cannot fix
The world no matter what I do.
I Cannot Fix the World
I am but one. I cannot fix
The world no matter what I do.
I do not have effective tricks.
I am but one. I cannot fix
Religion, earth, or politics
When you refuse to see what’s true.
I am but one. I cannot fix
The world no matter what I do.
October 20, 2019
OctPoWriMo 20 - The Mountain's Heart
Prompt: mountains or oceans
Form: haibun
Image by David Mark from Pixabay
The Mountain's Heart
Snowy heights. Cold thin air all year-round. Some seek to conquer the rocky ridges, but I am content to look up from down below. It is cold up there, cold and harsh and unforgiving, beautiful and deadly. A cap of snow, a face of rock, shoulders of trees. Stabbing at the sky, reaching through the clouds.
The mountain’s heart is
Blazing with heat and fire
Deep inside, hidden
Form: haibun
Image by David Mark from PixabayThe Mountain's Heart
Snowy heights. Cold thin air all year-round. Some seek to conquer the rocky ridges, but I am content to look up from down below. It is cold up there, cold and harsh and unforgiving, beautiful and deadly. A cap of snow, a face of rock, shoulders of trees. Stabbing at the sky, reaching through the clouds.
The mountain’s heart is
Blazing with heat and fire
Deep inside, hidden
October 19, 2019
OctPoWriMo 19 - The Whole Rainbow
Prompt: Purple
Form: Villanelle
The Whole Rainbow
I used to like purple the best
But now I love the whole rainbow:
Each part of me therein expressed.
As a child, I was obsessed;
I guess some things you just outgrow.
I used to like purple the best.
The prism in me manifest
Can through my life the spectrum show
Each part of me therein expressed.
It’s not a battle nor a test
To bring me to where I can glow.
I used to like purple the best.
And though I have not yet confessed
Every part of me, you know
Each part of me herein expressed.
No longer is my heart compressed;
Now I am free to learn and grow.
I used to like purple the best;
Each part of me herein expressed.
Form: Villanelle
The Whole Rainbow
I used to like purple the best
But now I love the whole rainbow:
Each part of me therein expressed.
As a child, I was obsessed;
I guess some things you just outgrow.
I used to like purple the best.
The prism in me manifest
Can through my life the spectrum show
Each part of me therein expressed.
It’s not a battle nor a test
To bring me to where I can glow.
I used to like purple the best.
And though I have not yet confessed
Every part of me, you know
Each part of me herein expressed.
No longer is my heart compressed;
Now I am free to learn and grow.
I used to like purple the best;
Each part of me herein expressed.
October 18, 2019
OctPoWriMo 18 - You Lied
Prompt: disappointment
You Lied
You told me love was ultimate
You told me everyone
You told me “all means all”
You lied
You told me there was nothing I could do to lose God’s love
You told me “just as I am”
You told me you loved me
You lied
I am apostate, heretic, backslider
Lost
You pray for me
You silence me
You wish that I would disappear
Where is the love?
You Lied
You told me love was ultimate
You told me everyone
You told me “all means all”
You lied
You told me there was nothing I could do to lose God’s love
You told me “just as I am”
You told me you loved me
You lied
I am apostate, heretic, backslider
Lost
You pray for me
You silence me
You wish that I would disappear
Where is the love?
October 17, 2019
OctPoWriMo 17 - Protect My Family
Prompt: Family
Form: Kyrielle
Protect My Family
When I hear the news I weep;I don’t know how some people sleep.I wish that all were safe and free;God, protect my family.
It seems as if the world’s gone mad:What’s bad is good; what’s good is bad,And selfish people gloat with glee.God, protect my family.
I thought He died for everyone;It doesn’t matter what you’ve done:Wasn’t that the guarantee?God, protect my family.
Form: Kyrielle
Protect My Family
When I hear the news I weep;I don’t know how some people sleep.I wish that all were safe and free;God, protect my family.
It seems as if the world’s gone mad:What’s bad is good; what’s good is bad,And selfish people gloat with glee.God, protect my family.
I thought He died for everyone;It doesn’t matter what you’ve done:Wasn’t that the guarantee?God, protect my family.
October 16, 2019
OctPoWriMo 16 - Done With Time
Prompt: Father Time
Form: Blitz
Done With Time
Hurry, hurry, run, run, run
Hurry, getting nothing done
Done. I’m gonna stop this pace
Done with this rat race
Race I never signed up for
Race for nothing. I need more
More of life and more of peace
More joy before I cease
Cease living on my feet
Cease dancing to time’s beat
Beat the clock? Impossible
Beating gravity’s much more possible
Possible is relative
Possible’s not definite
Definite time will go on
Definitely, ‘til all’s gone
Gone, for time is not that kind
Gone out of sight and out of mind
Mind you, time can also heal
Mind and heart from all ordeal
Ordeals are long but not constant
Ordeals will end and I’m content
Content to stop and smell the roses
Content that time is never frozen
Frozen into crystalled ice
Frozen can seem nice
Nice that things are not declining
Nice and lifeless, fixed and shining
Shining in the stagnant sun
Shining ‘til it comes undone
Done with growing, changing, learning
Done, but no: the world keeps turning
Turning every day to night
Turning darkness into light
Light is truth, light is a liar
Light is life and light is fire
Fire warms and fire kills
Fire isn’t for cheap thrills
Thrills and chills and pounding heart
Thrills are sweet and thrills are tart
Tart and sassy, smart and sharp
Tart and brassy, cheeky harp
Harp will sing at break of dawn
Harping on and on forever
Forever is outside of time
Forever is the all of time
Time is nothing—it’s not real
Time is all: trapped in the wheel
Wheel…
Real...
Form: Blitz
Done With Time
Hurry, hurry, run, run, run
Hurry, getting nothing done
Done. I’m gonna stop this pace
Done with this rat race
Race I never signed up for
Race for nothing. I need more
More of life and more of peace
More joy before I cease
Cease living on my feet
Cease dancing to time’s beat
Beat the clock? Impossible
Beating gravity’s much more possible
Possible is relative
Possible’s not definite
Definite time will go on
Definitely, ‘til all’s gone
Gone, for time is not that kind
Gone out of sight and out of mind
Mind you, time can also heal
Mind and heart from all ordeal
Ordeals are long but not constant
Ordeals will end and I’m content
Content to stop and smell the roses
Content that time is never frozen
Frozen into crystalled ice
Frozen can seem nice
Nice that things are not declining
Nice and lifeless, fixed and shining
Shining in the stagnant sun
Shining ‘til it comes undone
Done with growing, changing, learning
Done, but no: the world keeps turning
Turning every day to night
Turning darkness into light
Light is truth, light is a liar
Light is life and light is fire
Fire warms and fire kills
Fire isn’t for cheap thrills
Thrills and chills and pounding heart
Thrills are sweet and thrills are tart
Tart and sassy, smart and sharp
Tart and brassy, cheeky harp
Harp will sing at break of dawn
Harping on and on forever
Forever is outside of time
Forever is the all of time
Time is nothing—it’s not real
Time is all: trapped in the wheel
Wheel…
Real...
October 15, 2019
OctPoWriMo 15 - Unbowed
Prompt: Mother May I
Form: Ballad
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay
Unbowed
My mother taught me how to sing
Even if you can’t,
How to do what you enjoy
With or without talent.
She taught me how to craft, create
Food and woolen things;
She gave me strength and daring to
Learn to use my wings.
And now, although she is long gone,
I know she would be proud
Of what I do and who I am:
Because of her, unbowed.
Form: Ballad
Image by Free-Photos from PixabayUnbowed
My mother taught me how to sing
Even if you can’t,
How to do what you enjoy
With or without talent.
She taught me how to craft, create
Food and woolen things;
She gave me strength and daring to
Learn to use my wings.
And now, although she is long gone,
I know she would be proud
Of what I do and who I am:
Because of her, unbowed.
October 14, 2019
OctPoWriMo 14 - A Year in the Life of Mother Earth
Prompt: Mother Earth
Form: multiple tanka
A Year in the Life of Mother Earth
Hot sun beating down,
Lazy sleepy days of heat,
“Let’s go to the beach”
Time stretches out like taffy—
But then, much too soon, it ends.
The leaves are turning,
A chill creeps into the air:
Sweaters, pumpkins, boots,
Pumpkins, scarecrows, apples fall.
Ghosts may walk among the stones...
And then the snow flies,
Slush and ice and freezing cold.
In the longest dark
Red and green and gold and gifts
Remembering Jesus’ birth,
But soon it all melts;
Leaves and grass and flowers sprout,
The earth born again,
The cold is ousted and then:
The heady scent of flowers.
Form: multiple tanka
A Year in the Life of Mother Earth
Hot sun beating down,
Lazy sleepy days of heat,
“Let’s go to the beach”
Time stretches out like taffy—
But then, much too soon, it ends.
The leaves are turning,
A chill creeps into the air:
Sweaters, pumpkins, boots,
Pumpkins, scarecrows, apples fall.
Ghosts may walk among the stones...
And then the snow flies,
Slush and ice and freezing cold.
In the longest dark
Red and green and gold and gifts
Remembering Jesus’ birth,
But soon it all melts;
Leaves and grass and flowers sprout,
The earth born again,
The cold is ousted and then:
The heady scent of flowers.
