Nov
2
2011 NOVEMBER PAD CHAPBOOK CHALLENGE: DAY 2
For today’s prompt, use an epigraph to kickstart your poem. That is, use a quotation. … To format an epigraph poem, a poet places the quotation between the title and the body of the poem, while also giving credit to the source of the quotation.
Final Harvest
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind
than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana
final harvest
dusk falls
on empty fields
pumpkins bright
greeting tricksters
gathering candy
Halloween
Also submitted to The Thursday Think Tank #73 – The Waning Days of Fall
Mar
2
From Cloaked Monk’s March Challenge:
March 2nd is “Read Across America Day” in honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday. Reflect on reading.
For today’s offering form, I chose a septolet:
on basement shelves
forgotten books
dusty pages
hidden worlds
lurking
waiting to be
explored
Apr
25
We went to Green Forest, a local Brazilian churrascaria, for dinner tonight. All you can eat meat.
many skewers
loaded with
beef and chicken
lamb and pork
churrascaria
causing
meat coma
Apr
22
NaPoWriMo # 20
restful sleep
elusive shadow
always drifting
just beyond my eyes
dreamtime
waiting for
me
NaPoWriMo # 21
crystals vibrating
resonating with chakras
colors bring healing
NaPoWriMo # 22
horse foals
leggy babies
scrambling upright, wobbly
seeking, searching, nursing at last
spring gift
Apr
19
For NaPoWriMo # 18
Septolet: a 7 line poem of 14 words, broken into 2 stanzas
from the iron cauldron
fire sparks
dancing
in the wind
rising up
becoming
stars
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