Don’t appraise my messy mind
or feign to understand my plight
Sympathetic eyes do judge
the pity extinguishes my glow
Lightly be my friend in life
or heavily be my foe. Continue reading
Don’t appraise my messy mind
or feign to understand my plight
Sympathetic eyes do judge
the pity extinguishes my glow
Lightly be my friend in life
or heavily be my foe. Continue reading
Unattainable peace through the barrel of a gun
Exploitative power in the guise of faith
Habitual hate through the ignorance of tradition
Intolerance. Prejudice. Repression. Separation.
Helplessly turning a blind eye. Silence. Defeat.
Written for Trifecta’s Trifextra Weekend Challenge. Our task this weekend was to write about what scares you in exactly 33 words. Many things scare me, but I think I covered a plethora of fears in my poem.
Radiant dewdrop of life
Slips away unsung
This weekend Trifextra challenge was to write a haiku. The photograph of the morning dew on my rosemary plant was my inspiration. I love the reflection of the plant in the water droplet.
Something must be wrong with me. I’ve contracted a sweet writing disease. Fear not. The disorienting poetry fever will pass, and I shall return to my roots of the melancholy and weird, soon.
Let me start by saying poetry is not part of my repertoire, nor is happy writing. For the Trifextra: Week Eighty-One prompt, Trifecta asked for “soul-soaring happiness” because we’ve turned too gloomy and doomy, of late. I tried some light and joy in the form of a poem, a little alliteration overload. (I can already hear the snickering.) Oh, and it had to be exactly 33 words.
Our inspiration this week was this fantastic photo: One year in one image by Eirik Solheim. Each thin section of the photo represents a different day of the year. It’s quite an amazing image.
Perennial Love
Our passion is perennial
enduring the blossoming of brilliant beginnings
the heat of feverish firsts
the frost of fleeting farewells
a blizzard of bonding breath
Our evolution of the endless seasons of love