look up – Leonas Lines

Butterfly Cinquain

Listen!

Posted on August 9, 2020 by Leonas Lines

White flower among yellow flowers

Unique,

Trying to grow tall,

Feeling you don’t fit in

With all those who surround you.

Listen!

Don’t you dare give up trying!

Look up, reach for the sky!

You do have a

Purpose.

Butterfly Cinquain

Concrete, Double Cinquain, NaPoWriMo 2020, Shape

Clouds of Hope

Posted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 by Leonas Lines

Clouds, sky, kites flying — Drawing and poetry by Leona J. Atkinson

I see

Patches of hope

White clouds of promise

Floating above the virus

Look up!

Rise up

Above the

Gloom and doom that’s creeping

Set your focus higher, freedom’s

Coming

Shape, Concrete, Double Cinquain

NaPoWriMo Day 9–Prompt: Concrete Poem

Nonet

Fly Away from Fear

Posted on January 18, 2020January 20, 2020 by Leonas Lines

Paper collage bird flying above water — Paper Collage Bird by LeonasDesigns ©️2019

Fly above the waters of doubt

Don’t let them drown and destroy your dreams

Don’t let your fears hold you down

Soar to the brights skies beyond

Keep looking ahead

Gather your strength

Never give

Fear a

Chance

Nonet

June 2019, Tanka

When…

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Leonas Lines

Clouds in blue sky

Worries appear like

Cloud, upon cloud, upon cloud

Threatening your day

Shift the view by looking up

Focus on blue sky above

Tanka

As the clouds move on and pass away, so will your troubles. Therefore, do not worry, but shift your focus to look to God above who is in control of all things.

(While out shopping today I happened to look up at the sky, as I often do because I always enjoy seeing the many different beautiful clouds Oregon has,and seeing this scalloped cloud formation today intrigued me.

As I gazed at it this poem formed in my mind that I felt I should share as it’s always a good reminder to me, as well as others, that we should not worry. )