The sun was bright, but there was no light.
The sky was clear, yet my mind was gripped with fear.
The birds were flying, but my heart was crying.
The day was new, yet my hopes were few.
#sea
NaPoWriMo Day 4: Tenacity of Nature
On fourth day of NaPoWriMo Maureen has challenged us today to write a poem that is about something abstract – perhaps an ideal like “beauty” or “justice,” but which discusses or describes that abstraction in the form of relentlessly concrete nouns. Adjectives are fine too! For example, you could have a poem about sadness that … Read more
Tanka: Quest
the quest for beauty leads us to surmount high peaks explore hills and seas to discern nature’s whimsy to unearth it’s repertoire This post follows the prompt given by Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge# 44. The prompt words for this week are “hunt” and “find”. I decided to go for their synonyms, … Read more
Tanka: Placid Ocean
summer afternoon waves quietly touching shore teasing leisurely savouring tranquility weary of belligerence
NaPoWriMo Day 13: Haibun
The prompt for NaPoWriMo for today has not yet been uploaded so I followed the prompt shared by Colleen for her Weekly Poetry Challenge #28 which requires words “hard” & “soft” or their synonyms to be used in a haiku, tanka or haibun. I have written a haibun with words “soft” and “insistence” (for hard) following the … Read more