Maybe choosing to
Step out of your comfort zone
Will bring happiness
Senryu
My grand-daughter is a very talented artist in acrylic painting and charcoal drawing, especially in doing portraits.
Yesterday when we got together to do our crafting project she surprised me by saying” I want to try something different”
And so she did! She stepped out of her comfort zone and created something “Wonderful” in mixed media paper collage. 😊
Two paths lay before me
Where will they lead my feet
If I go left where will I be
Two paths lay before me
If I go right what will I see
I wonder if in the end both will meet
Two paths lay before me
Where will they lead my feet
Triolet
While walking thru life in these shoes
I saw things I didn’t want to see
Came upon things I didn’t choose
While walking thru life in these shoes
I walked away from things I hated to lose
Stood firm when when I wanted to flee
While walking thru life in these shoes
I saw things I didn’t want to see
Triolet
Yes, many things I’ve seen and done in my 75 years, but nothing has quite been like what I am seeing and experiencing now during this virus.
I pray all our shoes will stand strong so that we will all be walking away from this time in our lives healthy and free to really live life again in a world that is free from this terrible disease.
Tis true
Life is made of choices
So think before acting
For what we choose determines
Our fate
Cinquain
Choices create it
Happenings cause it
Anxiety is often its result
No one is immune to it
Good often comes from it
Everyone will experience it
Acrostic
World, Flesh or Devil
Daily temptations
Christ the perfect pearl
Daily peace and joy
With either we pay a price
Choice is ours alone
Which will you partake
Syllabic Verse
Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. Matthew 13:46
#JuneFalls19 Poetry Challenge Prompt: poison and pearl
From the Midwest prairie there arose,
A blue eyed country girl, quiet and shy.
Twas a simple, honest life she chose,
Enjoying nature’s wood, and clear blue sky,
Til years, and bitter tears, drew her away
To the bright city lights and noisy nights,
Bringing many sorrows and great dismay,
Filled with untrue friends and foolish fights.
But suddenly, one night, arose a light,
Telling her to return whence she came,
And visions of the prairie she did sight,
Helping her heal from all the grief and shame.
Once more, now barefoot, she stands
Upon simple, Midwestern prairie lands.
SONNET–ENGLISH:
(3 Quatrains (4 line stanzas) and 1 Couplet (2 line stanza) equals 14 lines–10 syllables each line– Rhyme: abab cdcd efef gg–problem posed in the first 12 lines/Volta=solution in last 2 lines)
A slip of the tongue
Brings heartache if
Careless words are spoken and
Damage can be done to a tender heart.
Even if you apologize and ask
Forgiveness theres no
Getting the words back once they’re spoken.
Honestly, words can be like arrows that
Inflict pain if they are
Judging words, but if they are
Kind words, spoken in
Love with true
Meaning and compassion behind them,
Not only will they do good, but they might
Open the door to end someone’s
Pain, or help someone
Quit a bad habit.
Remember to think before you
Speak, and
Try to always choose
Uplifting words that will bring
Victory into someone’s life, for
Words are powerful!
X-ray each one for harmful effects before
You speak it, for we all need to be
Zealous to make sure our words are good.
Abecedarian
Where shall I go
With this bag of dreams
I must choose steps
That will transport me
To the reality
Of an empty bag
Syllabic Verse
Walking
In paper shoes
Carefully planning
Each step to avoid ruinous puddles
Of life
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 