Jan
29
Theme Thursday for January 26, 2012 – BALANCE
equinox symmetry
between the light and dark
following the sun’s arc
guiding balance
Nov
16
2011 NOVEMBER PAD CHAPBOOK CHALLENGE: DAY 13
Today is World Kindness Day. As a result…
The prompt for today is to write a kind poem. My interpretation of this prompt is that the poem should either be kind or somehow involve kindness in it–one way or the other. I suppose the poem could also involve cruelty–as long as there is some form of kindness somewhere. But if you feel the need to stretch the prompt, go for it.
random acts of kindness
showing a heart sincere
gentleness of the deer
bringing out love
Deer Totem: gentleness, love, and kindness
artwork by Cornelia Kopp, found on flickr
Aug
29
The Jingle Poetry Community has moved to The Gooseberry Garden, where I was invited to participate in week 2 of their poetry picnic. The theme this week is The Kiss, for which they posted the painting The Kiss By Gustav Klimt. So not my style. Instead, I found an image of John William Waterhouse‘s La Belle Dame Sans Merci to use as inspiration.
a lady of faerie
enthralled me with a kiss
promised unearthly bliss
left me pining
Apr
30
curiously climbing
arboreal otter
hides above the water
among the leaves
Apr
16
Today’s abhanga is brought to you by the letter F.
fetching Fauna’s favor
fosters fertility
frees from fragility
foals filling fields
Foaling season at the farm begins the first of May.
This photo is from last year’s foaling season:
Mar
8
From Cloaked Monk’s March Challenge:
Today is the beginning of Mardi Gras. Reflect on abundance.
Over the weekend, Greg and I went to the Orchid Show at Phipps Conservatory. Today’s form is an abhanga.
abundance of petals
gathered into boquets
adorn the passageways
fragrant beauty
Check out the flickr stream for LOTS more photos. I was playing with the new little snapshot camera and was quite pleased.
Jan
27
Imbolc, spring approaches
as sap begins to flow,
life stirs beneath the snow
as nature wakes
This poem helps explain why the food I most associate with Imbolc is vanilla ice cream topped with maple syrup. Real maple syrup please, not high fructose corn syrup laced with artificial maple flavor.
Jan
2
dark of night, dark season
the hibernating earth
nurturing our rebirth
new moon, new year
Apr
13
another abhanga
as Beltaine approaches
and the land blushes green
while the birds burst with song
thoughts turn to love
Apr
7
Simple abhanga are four lines in length, with respective syllable counts of 6, 6, 6 and 4 … the rhyming scheme is “a-b-b-c”
~ Jack Huber’s Poetic Form – Abhanga
waxing moon, waxing year
potential is growing
with the seeds we’re sowing
dreams to harvest
Is it wrong to use contractions to make the syllable counts work?
