Sitting on concrete,
Her only firm foundation.
Thin white hands held
A small cardboard rectangle,
Instead of two little girls.
Tanka
Tag: image from Pixabay
Going In Circles
Chasing Bunny tails
Hopping around rabbit trails
Such a time waster
Senryu
Spring Cleaning
Distressed?
Oppressed?
Obsessed?
Depressed?
Repressed?
Suppressed?
Get rid of all those stresses
Banish all those presses
Remove all those sesses
Get rid of all those stresses
Add some blesses, progresses,
Impresses, and successes
Get rid of all those stresses
Banish all those presses
Triolet
How Many Roads?
How many roads have you trod
In those earthly shoes?
Though worn and weary yet you’d plod,
How many roads have you trod?
Through city streets or soggy sod,
Doin your best, payin your dues,
How many roads have you trod,
In those earthly shoes?
Triolet
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
—Bob Dylan
Happy 78th Birthday today to Bob Dylan!
Prodigal of Praise
In the grocery store
I passed by a cart
Therein sat a wee child
A prodigal of smiles
Contentedly singing
Syllabic Verse
Bits and Pieces
Little things do matter
“Rome wasn’t built in a day”
Great things begin small
Senryu
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” -Vincent Van Gogh
Someday-One Day
We are still dreaming
We are still rising
We are still trying
To live the creed
Syllabic Verse
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’
— Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream,” delivered August 28, 1963
Callous Critic
Who are you that sits on a self made throne,
That’s padded with a pillow of pride,
Wearing a robe of perfection?
Your know-it-all attitude
And hastily pointing fingers,
Fill the air with dread,
As you speak words
That tear down
Someone’s
Dream.
Reverse Etheree
Prime Time
Sometimes
You need to just sit
Pondering
Not doing
Waiting for inspiration
To bring something
Shadorma
“Ah yes, doing nothing often leads to the very best of something” —Pooh
(I was so inspired while watching the movie “Christopher Robin” recently! I loved the story and found myself pausing the DVD many times to write down various quotes of things that Pooh said. One such quote inspired this poem 😊)
Devoid
Yes
I tried
To no avail
I thought and pondered
And racked my brain
Even searched and researched
Yet nothing came to mind
Inspiration hid from my brain
Ideas could not be found anywhere
So I sit here with blank mind and blank paper
Etheree
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 