
Food Bank line grows
More goes out than goes in
What is on your plate?
Haiku
Haiku Horizons Week #243 Prompt: Plate
In Booming Economies, Food Banks at Busier than Ever
http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/12/pf/housing-prices-food-bank/index.htm

Food Bank line grows
More goes out than goes in
What is on your plate?
Haiku
Haiku Horizons Week #243 Prompt: Plate
In Booming Economies, Food Banks at Busier than Ever
http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/12/pf/housing-prices-food-bank/index.htm

Through the open door they dance
Inhibitions unlocked
Freely they fling
Flashes of color
Detached, moving with abandon
Come to rest at my feet
I gape at the beauty of the leaves of Fall
Come to entertain me
On this windy day.
Free Verse
#OctPoWriMo Day 24
Word Prompts: outside, unlocked, fling,
freely, gape
,
Do you see the real me
Beneath the heavenly skies
Leaf covered path
On my daily walk I pass by and over so many fallen leaves, some noticeable, some not. Some freshly fallen are filled with beautiful colors while some are withered, lifeless, or hidden beneath others.
It causes me to think that they are like many of us in this world. Some of us are more noticeable than others, perhaps more lively, active or attractive while others might be older, less active, or perhaps feel insignificant or hidden because they are covered in worries or burdens.
Just like the many leaves they may wonder if anyone sees the real them.
But the truth is that God does.
He sees us all, for that is one of His names.
In Genesis 16:13 it says “So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are ‘God who sees,’ because I have truly seen the one who looks after me.”
Hagar was a runaway who was alone in the wilderness with her child, she figured no one cared about her and she thought she and her son were going to die—alone….but God saw her and He spoke to her and helped her.
Matthew 10:29 says that not even a sparrow falls to the earth without God knowing about it, so I am thinking it must be the same for leaves and people too. He sees us all.
Everbody matters
For the clear truth is written
He’s “God who sees me”
Haibun
#OctPoWriMo Day 23
Theme: See Me.
Prompts: beneath, uncover, clear, unspoken,truth
Form: Haibun

Betrayal
Brings duplicity
Back and forth
Lying tongues weaving
Dishonesty and deception
Cleverly disguised
Harmless looking masks
-Falseness-
Masks looking harmless
Disguised cleverly
Deception and dishonesty
Weaving tongues lying
Forth and back
Duplicity brings
Betrayal
Palindrome
Poetry prompt: Betrayal
Word prompts:
betrayal, deception, dishonesty,
duplicity, lying
Suggested Form: Palindrome

How will I know
When the time is right
To leave or go?
How will I know
To say yes or no,
To run or to fight?
How will I know,
When the time is right?
Triolet
Prompt: “How Will I Know”

Don’t let any moment slip by
Cus hours tend to fly
Seconds march on
Til life is gone
And the clock hands can’t be delayed
Minutes fade
The hourglass runs
No past reruns
Your life’s chronology is now
Present avow
Future gain
Not live in vain.
Minute Poem
#OctPoWriMo Day 20
Theme: Time Lord
Word Prompts:
moment, hours, minutes, clock, hourglass, future, past, present,
chronology
Suggested Form:
In keeping with the time theme and for those who really want a challenge, try a Minute poem. For less of a challenge try Loop poem

Things are not always as they seem
Sometimes life is extreme
But don’t give up on your dream
In the middle of the stream
Dont let go of your steam
Though water is stirred
Vision blurred
Stay spurred
Try!
Nonet-Rhyme
#OctPoWriMo Day 19
(Theme based on the famous line from movie “The Notebook”

Once Upon A Time
In a time long ago
I was young like you
Believed in fairy tales
Imaginary
Tall ships with bright silver sails
And carpets that flew
But then I grew, and realized
I no longer had child’s eyes
Choka
#OctPoWriMo Day 18

Hanging on to fear
Living in the past
Chasing dreams away
Life goes too fast
Release that fear
Live in the present
Chase dreams to catch
Life goes too fast
Syllabic Verse

Like a fading leaf
I wonder as I age
And detach from life
On my aged tree
Just what the end will be
I am trusting and
Praying that God’s angels
Catch me when I fall
Asleep on this earth
And like the wind
Gently take me up
To my eternal home
Where I will live on
In the God’s presence
On His Tree of Life
Syllabic Verse
#OctPoWriMo Day 16