nature – Page 31 – Leonas Lines

“Faithful followers, there is no shadow of me and a beautiful spring it shall be,” a member of Phil’s Inner Circle read from the groundhog’s prediction scroll to the cheers and applause from the crowd.

Thousands of people gathered Saturday at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to watch a famous groundhog deliver his highly anticipated forecast.

Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his burrow around 7:30 a.m. ET and did not see his shadow, predicting an early spring for us all –CNN Punxsutawney,PA

February 2019, Haiku

Perky Purple Posies

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Leonas Lines

Purple Crocus

In the midst of winter

Flowers in February

Brighten the afternoon

Haiku

January 2019, Tanka

Dazzling Designer

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Leonas Lines

Ice design on car windshield looks like lace or ocean waves — Original Photo ©️2015 LeonasLines

Dressed up for winter

Mrs. Jack Frost’s cloak imprinted with

Icy blue like lace

Trails across my window pane

Reminding me of ocean waves

Tanka

January 2019, Shadorma

On a Windy Winter Day

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Leonas Lines

Drawing of a leaf in the wind

I sat and watched

As a vagrant leaf

Sashayed past

Meandering

Apparently oblivious

Autumn had long passed

Shadorma

Butterfly Cinquain, January 2019

Out of the Cocoon

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Leonas Lines

Butterfly in flight

Been there

Walking away

From that place I’ve tread

Looking for a new horizon

To rise

Unexpectedly right before me

With paths that lead upward

Promising a

Future

Butterfly Cinquain

“I always get to where I am going by walking away from where I have been”. —Pooh

January 2019, Scripture, Tanka

Tarry Time

Posted on January 26, 2019January 28, 2019 by Leonas Lines

Leaves in Fall

New Year days in flight,

Flying away like fall leaves.

What is your vision?

Are your dreams anchored down,

To withstand the winds of time?

Tanka

And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry Habakkuk 2:2-3

January 2019, Tanka

Soaring

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Leonas Lines

“Soaring” Paper Collage Art created 2019©️LeonasDesigns

Full of lofty goals

I soar higher than the stars

Music in my soul

Catapulting me forward

Until I reach a million dreams

Tanka

(I was inspired to write this poem after listening to “A Million Dreams” Song from the movie “The Greatest Showman” and I added it to a paper collage piece I was working on that the song also inspired me to create😩)

January 2019, Syllabic Verse