Tag: poetry
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Tanka Poems for Gratitude: Join My November Journey
Throughout the month on November, I plan to write a tanka poem each day expressing my gratitude for an object or an event that happened. I am hoping this will make me see the world more positively this month and let gratitude be the focus of my daily observations. I’m also trying to do a…
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A Table Teaches What It Means to Be Human
Each evening. exactly at 5:00 the family of 6 encircled a table- bumping elbows, knocking knees. horseplaying, laughing until the moment the food made by loving hands filled the table. Colored bowls filled with passed down recipes only known in the cook’s mind scattered across the surface, nearly fitting in the diameter. Squeezed in, around,…
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Nature’s Healing: Finding Light Through Darkness
Oh Mother Nature, I come to you today seeking your healing for my bleak soul adorned in mourning blackness. I want to sit amongst this community of sky touching spruce trees while the goldeness of our sun plays hide-n-seek with outstretched branches and tall, thin trunks. I ask you to help restore my soul, my…
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Nature’s Lesson: Revealing Our Authentic Selves
Pure beauty of self revealed- conforming masquerade ceases. Revealed jittery candid spirit- revealed beauty of pure self The past 2 weeks have been filled with the glorious colors of the season- rubies, tangerines, golds, russets. Many times I have stopped in awe of the scene before me. The sun highlighting these colors to the fullest.…
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Last Row of the Season: A Poetic Journey
The season of rowing is ending- One last session on the canal Eight rowers in unison Gliding over water Sunshine to twilight Blush, violet, peach, grace the sky BEAUTY stuns It was the last row of the season. It is getting darker earlier and the Erie Canal will soon be drained. I had mixed emotions…
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50 Shades of Green-Day 17 SOLSC
Having green on my mind, I decided to use my Paint Chip Poetry game and pull out all of the green shades. There were 50 shades of green from pale pastel with the name Baby Sweater to a vibrant one called Garden of Eden . My initial idea was to use all the shades in…
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Please Be Filled with Glimmers 2024
2nd song of the morning that pepped me up and got me groovin’ A crack of blue sky widening on my drive to work An I luv u message from a student SUNSHINE ( after days in days of gray) Matcha candle relaxing my mind with grassy tones Journaling with my favorite colorful pens Cozy…
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Why Do You Write Poetry….
Why Do You Write Poems When Your Mind is Battered By The World? Why do you write poems when your mind is battered by the world? It is an escape into my thoughts pushing the cacophony of life away for a mere hour or so allowing me to hear my inner whisper giving it space…
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Can Email Be Poetry???
While reading through Slices over the weekend, I noticed that Book Spine Poetry had been tried in a few posts. I was at a loss for what to write about today so I was scrolling through my emails. Then ding! Why not make a poem out of the headings in my email. I decided to…
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Spring Haiku Hunt
I just finished reading Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku by Natalie Goldberg. Part of my learning was that haiku does not need to be written in the 5-7-5 syllable pattern that I had always learned but it can just be 3 short lines. The tricky part is…
Doodads and Doodles 