“Don’t sweat the small things”
When life tries to weary you
Keep up and keep on.
Senryu
If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? Jeremiah 12:5
Whose feet did tread
In these fields long ago?
Perhaps Ancestors,
Or a people we knew not.
Nature holds the secret
Tanka
Gloomy skies above
Melancholy moods below
Crestfallen heads droop
Haiku
Youth was here and then
One blink and it was gone
Hummingbird at feeder
Haiku
Dancing in the sun
We spent summer days together
What a pair we made.
Haiku
Standing tall wherever I am
Monoku
Things are not always as they seem.
What we see may not be what is.
Sometimes eyes play tricks,
And our mind does also.
We need to ask ourself,
Is reality
Truly what
My eyes do
See?
Nonet
Cloud cover
Signs in the sky
We keep looking above
For answers to problems on earth
To come
Cinquain
At this sunset hour
New opportunity waits
Just around the corner
Haiku
Twists and Turns
In the road of life
Changeabouts
Curlicues
Can lead to opportunities
If faith is driving
Shadorma
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 