Searching for sunshine
A tiny bud pushes forth
Roses rise again
Haiku
#NaPoWriMo 2019–Day 21–Off Prompt
I am glad to see my roses springing up and back to life after the hard winter we had. I lost a few plants to the cold weather but my roses all survived and are looking healthy and growing.
Advocate
Bread of Life
Christ the Lord
Deliverer
Eternal Life
Faithful and True
Gift of God
Heir of All Things
Image of God
Jesus Christ Our Lord
King of kings
Light of the world
Messiah
Nazarene
Our Peace
Prince of Peace
Quickening Spirit
Redeemer
Savior
Truth
Uncorruptible God
Vine
Way
Abecedarian
(Based on Scripture References found in the “Names Of God” Book by SGLY Ministry)
#NaPoWriMo 2019–Day 19--Prompt: Today, I’d like to challenge you to write an abecedarian poem – a poem in which the word choice follows the words/order of the alphabet.
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
April dresses up
Seasonal springtime dance
Cherry blossom pink
Haiku
#NaPoWriMo 2019—Day 15–Off Prompt
April sends her showers
Soft soil gives way to bring
Red Tulips in Spring
Haiku
NaPoWriMo Day 8–Off Prompt
My Dad 1967 standing near what was left of his childhood home in Sisseton, South Dakota
My people are all gone away
Leaving me with memories
That live on and stay
Siblings can no longer play
Under the South Dakota trees
They are all gone away
I alone stand today
With active sensories
That live on and stay
Under the heavy clouds of gray
I see them in reveries
They are all gone away
My pen searches to convey
Words filled with remedies
That live on and stay
Reaching to grasp each past day
I stand yet float feathery
They are all gone away
That live on and stay
Villanelle
(“They are all gone away” line taken from:”The House on the Hill” by Edwin Arlington Robinson—a Villanelle Poem)
(“They are all gone away” and “That live on and stay” are two phrases that oppose each other)
#NaPoWriMo 2019–Day 5-Prompt: today we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that incorporates at least one of the following: (1) the villanelle form, (2) lines taken from an outside text, and/or (3) phrases that oppose each other in some way. If you can use two elements, great – and if you can do all three,
In the spring of 1910 a new life was
Born in Sisseton South Dakota,
Just in time to be counted in
The Census taken April fifteen.
Roberts County gains another boy
And I, yet unknown, a future father.
A good man who would love nature,
Poetry, and baseball, a man
I would meet on a summer day in June
1944, when he came home from the war
To spend his time teaching a girl
How to hit home runs, name trees
By their leaves, track animals in
The woods, but not how to forget him.
Sonnet (Un-Rhymed)
In memory of my Dad, Erling Claremont Cliff, (4-4-10—1-1-85)
#NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 4 Prompt: sad, Sonnet
Stress abounds
If we allow it to
Restrain it
Detain it
Take it captive and cast down
Imaginations
Shadorma
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV
Facing the sunset
On the road that leads to home
Anticipation
Traveling memory’s trail
Paved with past and present
Tanka
Springtime
Abounds around
We feel it in the air
See it bursting everywhere
We rejoice!
Cinquain
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 