Exhausted soul aches
Unabated suffering
No offer of ease
For Ronovans weekly haiku challenge, words this week are -yes you guessed it…Ease and Ache!
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Aching for Ease
Tag: Poetry
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Friends & Family
Let me speak of the wonderful,
Linkages and interactions.
Those that bring joyous distractions.
Whose company I am grateful.
Their constancy always thoughtful.
Of course I speak of friends not foes,
And dear family who did sow;
A love that grows and will not rot.
I am entwined in bless’ed knots,
I will not cut, yes this I know!
For the Ronovan Decima challenge – this week the prompt is knot.
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Haiku Cascade
A haiku distills thinking and I have been writing a good deal recently. Largely as part of Twitter engagement (@lauraelizahay). Here is my Haiku Cascade!
Don’t try to solve life
Probing makes it elusive
Like sand through fingers
“Will I be okay?”
The prayer of all who suffer
If resolve nurtured…
Torpor overtakes
Enveloped in down’s soft warmth
Sleep submerges mind
Slipped into the night
Freedom from glib exclusive
Found the kind and wise
Eventide’s light plays
Dancing through canopy’s boughs
I sigh lost in dreams
Do try for the light
End slumbering in darkness
World waits for your sight
Signs of spring
Life’s grace returning
Warm wind blows
Expect doubt
Life’s harsh leveller
Ego’s foe
In days aftermath
To myself I am unkind
To the achieved blind
To be a hermit
Deep in the woods, riverside
Only lost can find
A community
Of photo-synthesisers
Capturing the light
Like a mountain lake
Clearer, direction once was
Now muddy puddle!
Encouragement is
The act of lending courage
To the fearful heart.
Prophet Hicks was right
Human life’s machinations
Are all ‘just a ride’
Phew if you made it here you have serious commitment!
Thank you.
Seconds slip
Relentless advance
Time’s unbound
For Ronovans Haiku Challenge – prompts are Slip & Time Check it out
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Inner Champion
Too often we are our own worst critic.
An internal voice that spews derision.
Inflicting on psyche a deep incision.
Way of being corrosive, acidic.
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I wonder if its possible to shift?
To fight for ourselves, speak up for our cause.
Seek to defend and vigorously applaud.
Champion our good, steer us when we drift.
So this is for Eugi’s weekly prompt – this week its ‘Champion’, check it out. It inspired me to think about champion not as a ‘winner’ but in its meaning to ‘advocate’, for another or a cause, and then ultimately for how we can be our own champion.
I am the shade of clouds On a gloomy day When melancholy takes hold. Between light and shade I am the middle way Shade of compromise Fair play. I am sensible Un-regrettable Possibly staid, but practical, Modest. But if you shine me Lustrous I can be Ultimate reflector, super conductor Precious.
Inspired by dVerse prompt where we are asked to imagine ourselves as a colour. Was for Tuesday poetics, so a bit late as had to let this one percolate.
A murmuration
Undulating like the wind
Acrobatic birds
Inspired by Ronovan Writes Haiku Prompt Bird and Wind
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Wedding Verse
Today we are witness To a new chapter As the passing of time Does not allow capture! Those heady days Of youthful glee Have given way to responsibility. But today I ask you To cast aside All mundane cares And in jubilance reside! For we are here to celebrate Kindness unified!
This was written and read at the marriage of my dear friends! I thought I would post this for Valentines Day.
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Vertiginous View #writephoto
Vertiginous view Deepest of pools Water Cascades Roaring pervades Overwhelming surge Precarious place Lagoon of fears Deluge of tears
Inspired by Sue Vincent’s Thursday photo prompt: Deeper #writephoto
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Atmospheric Beauty
Firmament ablaze.
To herald in the sun.
Oranges give way to reds.
A new day has begun.
Light’s exuberance,
and essential vitality.
Despite the cold,
And the wind’s brutality.
Awakens optimism,
Banishes dread,
That possesses mind.
From sadness it has led.
Atmospheric beauty.
The infant day sighs.
Fire tones give way to blue.
The sun is on its rise.
Inspired by my bitterly cold walk with the dog this morning. Where the sunrise put on a wonderful light show.
