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
Carried by the wind
A seed blown with wishful breath
Gold crown manifests
Haiku
#NaPoWriMo—Day 17–Prompt:
Today, I’d like you to challenge you to write a poem that similarly presents a scene from an unusual point of view
People abundant
People busy, bored
People cranky, caring, cautious
People driving, daring, devious, daunting
People everywhere
People fearful, following
People guilty, going, gullible
People happy, hiding, hoarding, hovering,
People indoors
People jolly, joking,
People kind, kissing, kidding,
People loud, lost, lazy, lacking,
People missing
People nice, needy
People old, obstinate, ordinary,
People pleasant, picky, private, proud
People queer
People running, rude,
People singing, silent, sick
People talking, talented, tall, tiny
People understanding
People victorious, vicious, victims, vulgar
People winning
People xenophobics, x-raying
People yelling, yawning, yielding,
People zestful, zany, zonked, zombies
List poem/alphabetical and numeric
#NaPoWriMo 2019-Day 16 Prompt: Today, I challenge you to write a poem that uses the form of a list to defamiliarize the mundane.
April dresses up
Seasonal springtime dance
Cherry blossom pink
Haiku
#NaPoWriMo 2019—Day 15–Off Prompt
Alien
Because I was without
Christ, living in
Darkness
Ensnared, a
Foreigner to Israel, without
God and without
Hope, a gentile in
Israel and to all
Jews
Knowing not the
Love of God, believing in
Myths
Not knowing the truth
Of the wonderful
Promises of God
Questioning life’s purpose
Running from truth, a
Stranger to the covenant of Promise
Then, through God’s grace
Understanding the gospel brought me to
Victory in Christ, and I was a
Wanderer no more, a
Xenos no more, I belonged and was
Yoked to Christ forever in
Zion, the New Jerusalem.
Abecedarian
(Based on Ephesians 2)
#NaPoWriMo—Day 14–Off Prompt
My childhood alarm clock was varied, often twas
Waking to the sound and smell of coffee perking.
Blurp, blurp, goes the old aluminum percolator,
A signal it was five am and mom was awake,
Bustling about the kitchen, making toast with jam.
I snuggle under the fresh smelling sheets and blankets
Knowing I have another hour before I hear
Dad’s voice calling,“ Leona! Time to get up!”
Those sounds, smells,and sights are now memories
Of carefree days in my Illinois country home.
Syllabic Verse
#NaPoWriMo 2019–Day 13–Off Prompt
Small but great treasure
Tiny green fold up scissors
They’re never dull
Senryu
#NaPoWriMo 2019–Day12–Prompt: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem about a dull thing that you own, and why (and how) you love it.
I have had this little pair of green fold up scissors for many, many years. I have always carried them with me either in my purse or in my car. There have been countless times they’ve come in so handy!
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)
“Raining cats and dogs”
PDX in the winter
“Soaked to the gills”
Syllable Lune
#NaPoWriMo 2019–Day 10–Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that starts from a regional phrase, particularly one to describe a weather phenomenon. You may remember one from growing up
Things
Things lost
Things broken
Things we’ve found
Things of beauty
Things chosen in haste
Things we’ll treasure forever
Things we let go to slip away
Things broken by their use or misuse
Things left behind, forgotten, unwanted
Things dreamed about yet never received
Things dreamed about that we’ve achieved
Things we never wanted but got
Things that rose up like weeds
Things we kept to appease others
Things we threw away
Things we’ve loved
Things we miss
Things lost
Things
Etheree/Reverse Etheree
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 