original poetry – Page 53 – Leonas Lines

(This poem was written in response to a suggestion made by our poetry class instructor. She said to imagine what Snow White felt like when she first opened her eyes after the Prince kissed her. So…I imagined…and this Shadorma was the result.😊)

November 2016, Senryu

Take the Oars!

Posted on November 15, 2016December 8, 2016 by Leonas Lines

Trying to get ahead

Everyone in the same race

No one wants to row

Senryu

November 2016, Shadorma

Water vs Man

Posted on November 13, 2016November 15, 2016 by Leonas Lines

rowboat--water

Rowboat on the ocean

Trying its best to keep afloat

Bodies interact

Haiku

Body of man vs Body of water in this Atlantic Rowboat Challenge called “The World’s Toughest Row”

Meet Two Brothers who will be competing in the 2016 Rowboat Challenge “Death Row”

Haiku Horizons Weekly Challenge–Week #143 Prompt: Row

November 2016, Scripture, Tanka

Choose Wisely

Posted on November 12, 2016December 8, 2016 by Leonas Lines

“Death and life are in

The power of the tongue”

Consider this daily

Before you unlease words.

Of which do you choose to speak?

Tanka

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Proverbs 18:21

Haiga, Haiku, Haiku Horizons Weekly Prompt, October 2016

Seasonal Shifting

Posted on October 23, 2016December 8, 2016 by Leonas Lines

As Seasons shift gears

There’s a shift in the weather

Chilly Autumn breeze

Haiku

Haiku Horizons Weekly Challenge Week#140 Prompt-Shift

Choka, October 2016, Scripture

Within and Without

Posted on October 21, 2016December 8, 2016 by Leonas Lines

Proverbs 3:3-4 — Image used with permission of SGLY Ministry http://www.smilegodlovesyou.org

Bound about my neck,

Written on my heart’s tablet,

See Mercy and Truth.

I will keep them very close.

If they never leave,

I will find high esteem and

I will find favor,

With God and with all mankind.

This is the word of the LORD.

Choka

Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart, And so find favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man.

Proverbs 3:3-4 NKJV

October 2016, Senryu