my garden
teeming with new life-
a spring fling
Pat
5/07/21
For Colleens Tanka Tuesday where the choice this week is Poets choice. To participate or just look, go here.
https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2021/05/04/tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenge-no-224-poetschoice/
(not mine)
this ghostly remains
now a part of the landscape –
new life, as still life
Pat
4/21/21
For Colleens Tanka Tuesday where this week we are using this photo to write an Ekphrastic Poem. I kept it short.
Amidst decay, there can still be beauty as nature plays her part.
For other entries or to participate go here
I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility that existence has its own reason for being.
Even for those immeasurably flawed.
I know enough of the world to recognize I know nothing about why I am.
The inkling that flits through my consciousness from time to time says that cherishing the next breath, is the only moment of any consequence.
Worldly goods are just that..worldly.
They will still be such way after my time has come, and the worms are having their way with me.
Or, if I were bold enough, long after I’ve been scattered to the wind.
Pat
3/17/21
For dVerse Poets Pub where Merril is hosting and the prompt is to include the lines below in a piece of prose.
“I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility that existence has its own reason for being.”
— Wisława Szymborska, “Possibilities”
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This human being is a salty soul
Anything adversarial was always
just a blip to be dealt with
There was no time for foolishness
because she had four children to
feed, educate and school in
manners
Her moves were well thought out
and always deeply rooted in hope
Yes, this ‘every woman’,
this human being is a salty soul.
(For my Mom)
Pat
3/17/21
as captive of time and nature
eyes nudged open
to this new dawn in the strife of life –
as we move through time,
I breathe – you breathe
Pat R
6/23/20
A Gogyohka for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday. A theme prompt in the words of Longfellow:-
photo by Pat R
a moth’s aflutter
zig zags, a cantankerous
mocking bird in tow
as they head to the meadow
gap closes, this will not end well
Pat R
6/15/20
For Frank Tassone’s Weekly Haikai Challenge..poet’s choice. I used “Meadow”
through the crack
in the sidewalk
springs hope
Pat R
5/14/20
Sidewalk Planter
I noticed on my walk yesterday that the neighborhood birds seems giddy. Take offs and landings have a different energy. They are moving around in larger cliques. A lot of camaraderie, a lot of chatter. Were they always this loud? They have all of outdoors to themselves! No humans disrupting their gatherings. No horns honking. They are reveling in this new found quiet. No droopy faces here.
a lush creeping phlox
is confined to a planter
urge to wander maimed
Pat R
5/07/20
Also for Cee’s Flower Of The Day (FOTD)
a mere sillhoutte
memory of its former self –
a daunting new age
Pat R
4/17/20
a cloud of blossoms
a gentle flurry – homage
to last hurrah
Pat R
5/03/19
For Frank Tassone’s Haiku Challenge: Blossom Haze
