Just no place
I’d rather be
Than in my little home
Where I can relax and just be me
A wee
Quiet, cozy place
Restful sanctuary
Full of inspiring things to see
Each day
Double Cinquain
Category: 2017
Enigma
In the morning light
The Designer
Created a masterpiece
Upon a wall of white
With no rain in sight
His Crown reflected
Seven prisms, His Signature
A gamut of delight
For mine eyes to gaze upon
Riddle
Can you guess what I saw inside my house on my wall of white?
The End of an Enterprise
Gone are the days
Of mud pies
That childhood imaginations
Turned into clay ashtrays
Carefully painted
In gaudy colors
By my neighborhood friend
And I
We were entrepreneurs
Out to make our fortunes
At age six
Elegy
Gardener’s Recipe
Strengthen those hands
In the soil of the earth
Let them not hang down
To touch feeble knees
But let them cultivate
Tender shoots of Life
To growth and maturity
And cause the knees to bend
In prayer that the the feet may
Walk on paths so straight
Where the lame won’t fall
But be healed and seek
Peace with all
Free Verse
Based on Hebrews 12:12-14
At Midnight
March left me last night,
while I was sleeping,
And out of sight,
She went creeping
right out the door
and April slipped in
With a silly Fool’s Grin
To prank me once more
Rhyme
The Legacy of March
March of many weathers enters
Like a Lion’s loud roar
Shaking the barren tree limbs
From their sleepy core
Awakening season’s centers
To life once more
Then the Lion sleeps, time dims
March shuts Winter’s door
With Daffodil’s as assenters
And Songbirds galore
March leads a chorus of hymns
Life to restore
As Springtime rain mentors
March exits, no encore.
Like a frisky Lamb she skims
Toward the exit door
Double Trochee
DOUBLE TROCHEE: 4 quatrains–96 syllables–7-5-7-5 –7-5-7-5– 7-5-7-5 –7-5-7-5– Rhyme: a-b-c-b
‘Tis the Season To Be Glad!
Cherry Trees all dressed in pink
Daffodils and Narcissus bloom
Songbirds return to serenade
Nature’s shedding Winter’s gloom
Springtime is here! Springtime is here!
Monotetra
‘Tis Spring
Ah, Spring Fever is in the air
Let all beware
As minds will wander
And think and ponder
Then stop to sit in gardens green
Oh, so serene
Where dreams rise
To sunny skies
And bright colored flowers grow
Instead of snow
And songbirds sing
Ah, yes, tis Spring!
Minute
White Noise
The Rainchain
Turns a necessity
Into something so beautiful
Sight and sounds of nature’s tears are captured
By the decorative Rainchain
Elements work together
Naturally
Triquain
The Gift of Time
Time
Precious gift
Received today
Unwrapping it and using wisely
Now
Oddquain
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 