Family Gatherings

A Fibonacci Poem*

Cold

Days

Looking

Forward to

All the holidays

All the family gatherings

Travelling long distances is a part of it all

We gather to renew meaning of family through food fellowship and arguments

It’s when the ‘black sheep’ of the family rise to the occasion the star of the ensuing chaos we grumble rumble and love them still

Calm returns and you no longer wonder why you come to these things thoughts return to story-telling by elders reminiscing on tales from long ago new memories and being grateful for family, even the crazy ones

Pat R

11/05/2017

For Thotpurge Micropoetry Month Day 5

*A Fibonacci Poem has 10 lines with 55 syllables on the last line! Kind of a hefty micropoetey, I say.

The number of syllables in each line follows the Fibonacci sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…)!

 

Dry Leaves

Chorus of dry leaves
Twinkle in the autumn sun
Naked branches flail
As they take flight

Pat R

11/05/17

For Day 4 of Micropoetry Month with Thotpurge

The Challenge is to write s poem in the form called ‘Naani’. This is a four line poem containing 20-25 syllables invented by an Indian poet, Dr. N. Gopi

To see how others did go here