Life is a vapor
We are all a just breath away
From eternity
Saddened by the news of Kobe Bryant’s death today and also that of his young daughter.
We never know how much time we have on this earth, and today is a reminder of how short life sometimes can be.
Burden’s gone
I’ve been set free
From sin’s snare
And death’s grip
I sit in the heavenly places
Safe at Jesus feet
Shadorma
Word Prompts: Float, Light, Burden, Free, Meaning, Sublime
Who can
Save our souls
From the bottomless pit
The One who holds the keys to life
And death
Cinquain
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 1 John 4:14
#MayFalls19 Poetry Challenge Prompt: save our souls
Tears of sadness fall
On cheeks young and old
Hearts mourn your presence
As death takes you
Leaving us to grieve
Elegy-Syllabic Verse
In Memory of Koda-a beloved family pet
#NaPoWriMo—Day 18–Today, I’d like to challenge you to write an elegy of your own, one in which the abstraction of sadness is communicated not through abstract words, but physical detail
The symbol
Of Christ’s victory
Over sin
Over death
The true message of God’s love
Stands the test of time
Shadorma
In the Autumn we mourn
One who left too soon
Lily, November born
Bid us ‘bye neath the moon
Full of joy was Lil’ Lily
Happy baby elephant
Playful and sweet was she
In spirit, confident
Though illness took her away
From us and her family
We honor her today
For her sweet memory
Elegy
I am saddened by this news as I remember when Lily was born and everyone in Portland got the opportunity to vote on a name for her. I voted for the name Lily and was so happy it was chosen for her. It fit her perfectly. She was so sweet, lively, joyful and happy. She would have been 6 years old today 😪
In loving memory of Lily.
Her confident, happy spirit will always be in our hearts 🌹 pic.twitter.com/imPze35rXy— Oregon Zoo (@OregonZoo) November 30, 2018
https://www.oregonzoo.org/news/2018/11/zoo-heartbroken-6-year-old-lily-succumbs-virus
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
Angels in euphoric dance
Swirl in the great expanse
Over the clouds so puffy white
Heavenly beings full of delight
Mom is there joining in with glee
Eighteen years this day, there went she
Left earth aged with all its pain and woe
And flew to heaven with hair white as snow
Now in restored youth, she rejoices there
Dancing joyously with angels upon the air
Con-Verse
( I wrote this poem with my mom in mind as 18 years ago today she left this earth and went to heaven. She was 85 years old and I like to imagine that today she is in restored health and dancing on air with angels, as she always loved to dance when here on earth.)
(This is my first time writing this Form called:
Con-Verse, created by Connie Marcum Wong, which consists of three or more 2-line rhyming stanzas (couplets). The meter of this form is in syllabic verse.
Rhyme scheme: aa,bb,cc,dd,ee
Meter: 7,7,8,8,9,9,10,10,11,11)
(Syllabic verse only counts the number of syllables in a line.)
(This form consists of three or more couplets which ascend by one syllable up to and until you reach a syllabic count of eleven which would contain ten lines.
This process may be repeated for a longer verse. If repeated, you must begin your first couplet with the syllabic count of seven again and continue from there.)
#OctPoWriMo Day 10 http://www.octpowrimo.com/2018/10/poetry-prompts-day-10-dancing-on-air.html
Theme: Dancing on Air
Word Prompts:
Euphoric, Dance, In the clouds, Delight, Joy
Trinet Poem
Blackout Poem
