Sunflower
Standing alone
Making a difference
Just doing what it was meant to do
Bring joy
Cinquain
Tag: August 2016
Plants-Flowers-Gifts
Pretty posy path
Leading to the flower shop
Bouquets of color
Line the florist’s shelves
Music fills the air
Unique treasures abound
Delighting senses
I’m lost in a wonderland
Filled wifh creativity
Choka
Noisy Neighbor
Disturbance of the peace
The court is now in session
Blue Jay on defense
Haiku
Haiku Horizons Weekly Challenge
Week#132 Prompt: Court
Sidewalk Shadows
Shadows
On the walkway
Create a strange pattern
Letting imagination soar
I step
Cinquain
Sunny Pink
Pink flowers blooming
Sun shining so very brightly
Enjoying summer’s gifts
Haiku
Hidden Rainbow
Unbeknownst to me
A revelation
Was given
Quite amazingly
I captured a rainbow
That i never saw
Shadorma
When I took this picture the sun was shining very brightly, so brightly in fact that I was barely able to see the statues I was trying to photograph. It had not rained, so I was surprised to see what looked like a rainbow to me in the photo. Apparently, it is a Halo or Arc that somehow formed. (Someone who knows more about weather and amosphere than I do would probably be able to explain it)
But, it was a nice surprise, even though I would have liked to get a better picture of the statues which were a male and female deer with a fawn. Maybe another day….😊
Serenity
Leisurely stroll
In the cool of the evening
The hush of nightfall
Haiku
Success
Not just surviving
But blooming, in life’s hard places.
Are you up for it?
Seeing this little bunch of yellow flowers blooming brightly in a crack my daughter’s concrete driveway yesterday prompted this poem.
Previously, I had seen a few of these spritely yellow bursts of color in the green grass of her yard, however today, I happened to notice this little lone trio growing right in the paths of where cars come and go!
I marveled!
Surely at some point they had been run over or knocked down by a car tire, yet here they were standing tall in bloom!
Unlike their relatives in the grass who had been fortunate to receive refreshing drinks and showers from the garden water sprinkler, they had grown up among rocks, dry dirt, and concrete. Yet, they bloomed, and just as brightly.
Facing each new day
With an inner fortitude
To overcome and bloom!
Such a great lesson for us all.
As we face the hard times in life, let’s determine to not just survive them, but to show forth a positive attitude of achievement and success, so others will notice and be encouraged to do the same thru life’s challenges.
Anyone can quit
It’s not hard to just give up
Are you just “Anyone”?
Why should you be a statis quo?
When you can succeed and grow!
Haibun
Reflections and Recollections
Summer!
Outside
Thermometer
Rises and rises,
As the sun climbs high.
News reports say “heat wave!”
Animals and birds seek shade.
The wind vanishes at midday.
Humanity travels to the beaches.
Memories will warm a cold winter day
Etheree
Solitary Rose
Ah, so lovely
Scalloped petals
Blushing pink
Single bloom
Kissed by Summer’s sunshine
Captures my heart
Shadorma
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 