Tree holding strongly
Roots digging deeply
Un-battered,Un-broken
Leaves swaying
Branches dancing wildly
Whipping winds lashing
Tree standing firm
Rooted deep
Unshaken
Deep rooted
Firm standing tree
Lashing winds whipping
Wildly dancing branches
Swaying leaves
Un-broken, Un-battered
Deeply digging roots
Strongly holding tree
Palindrome
Since today is a “Palindrome Day”—9/19/19–19/19/9, I decided to write a Palindrome Poem.
Ordinary day
Turned wondrous
Woman at the well
Visited by Truth
Living Water spoke
Messiah revealed
Woman’s life was changed
Syllabic Verse
(Read the Story in John 4: 5-30)
A culinary delight!
When I first met you,
It was true love at first sight!
Especially so,
After taking that
Very first
Bite!
EPULAERYU: (7 lines–33 syllables–7-5-7-5-5-3-1 About a culinary treat or favorite food. Ends with an exclamation point! = !)
I first saw and tasted Pizza in the late 1950’s in a small Italian restaurant in Kenosha, Wisconsin. My older sister had discovered it through eating out with some of her high school friends and excitedly told our family about this wonderful new food item. So our whole family went to see what it was and we all loved it! It ended up being my dad’s favorite food 😊
Where Did The Word “Pizza” Come From, Anyway?
For more information:https://www.dictionary.com/e/whats-the-origin-of-pizza/
Appreciate beauty
Be present daily
Color your world with kindness
Decide to be positive
Encourage others to grow
Focus on today
Give smiles freely
Help those in need
Imagine great things
Jostle yourself to live life fully
Keep on making everyday count
Let the past remain there
Make everyday new
Notice nice little things
Open your mind to new opportunities
Ponder possibilities
Quickly forgive others
Valiantly seize the day
Walk in peace with purpose
X out all negativity
Yoke yourself to Christ
Zoom in on peace and happiness
ABECEDARIAN
Wind whispers
With a chilly voice.
Daylight turns off her light
Earlier, as each evening fades
Away.
Calendar creeps forward to the
Predetermined time
Autumn’s debut
Will come.
Butterfly Cinquain
(Trying to enjoy each summer day while it lasts!)
Falling through life’s cracks?
Or are you a ground breaker?
Growing in the hard places,
Blooming where you’re planted,
In spite of dry times,
Letting nothing hold you back,
From reaching your goal?
Modeling tenacity,
Like teeming dandelions?
Choka
Puzzling refections
Living in this earthly life
Parcial, incomplete
His ways imperfectly seen
Until the time of perfection
Tanka
Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.
All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
1 Corinthians 13:12-13 NKJV
Promises
Of sunny days
Dissolve as the dark clouds linger.
Each day summer’s warmth is cut short
It seems.
Cinquain
This summer we have not seen many sunny warm days.
The weather has been usually cool and even rainy.
Our fruit and vegetables have been aching for sunshine in order to ripen.
Each day I check the Weather App and smile as it tells me the high will be 80-85 and then as the day progresses my smile fades as the sun stays hidden and the temp doesn’t rise as predicted.
I keep hoping though that one of these days I will see summer arise again!
Quite fearful, yes,
A formidable opponent,
Sent to cause fear.
Yet God’s Armor protects me,
If I but wear it,
And stand firm resisting this
Foe, who hurls his darts
Of doubt, trying to wound my heart,
Until they meet the shield of faith.
Choka
Poem Inspired by Dictionary.com—Word Of The Day—Redoubtable
Origin
English redoubtable comes from Middle English redoutable “terrible, frightening, worthy of honor, venerable,” ultimately from Old French redotable, redoubtable, a derivative of the verb redouter “to fear, dread.” Redouter is formed from a French use of the prefix re- as an intensive (for instance, in refine), a use that Latin re- does not have, and from Latin dubitāre “to doubt, hesitate, waver” (but not “to fear”). Redoubtable entered English in the first half of the 15th century.
In my sleep I find
Idealized perfection
Utopian dreams
Senryu
Inspired by Dictionary .com Word of the Day “Utopian”
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 