Tag: poem

Posted in April 2018, Haiku, NaPoWriMo 2018

Unrealized Potential

Posted on by Leonas Lines

Lion and Angel

Looking for escape

Not aware of his resources

Flight to freedom lost

Haiku

NaPoWriMo 2018. Day 5

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that, like the work in Translucence, reacts both to photography and to words in a language not your own. Begin with a photograph. Now find a poem in a language you don’t know (here’s a good place to look!) Ignore any accompanying English translation (maybe cover it up, or cut-and-paste the original into a new document). Now start translating the poem into English, with the idea that the poem is actually “about” your photograph. Use the look and feel of the words in the original to guide you along as you write, while trying to describe your photograph. It will be a bit of a balancing act, but hopefully it will lead to new and beautiful (and possibly very weird) place

This is the original photo with the original poetry which I found posted at: https://awakenedeye.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/gr-magritte.jpg

Posted in April 2018, NaPoWriMo 2018, Senryu

RV Life

Posted on by Leonas Lines

Homeless Campers, RVs, parked on city streets

Filled with hungry faces

Campers park on city streets

72 hour caravan site

Life’s harsh reality shows

Recreation is just a word

Senryu

Many Cities and Towns are facing a growing number of Homeless RV’ers

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 4

Today, we challenge you to write a poem that is about something abstract – perhaps an ideal like “beauty” or “justice,” but which discusses or describes that abstraction in the form of relentlessly concrete nouns.

Adjectives are fine too! Concrete details like those can draw the reader in and let them imagine the real world where your abstract ideal or feeling happen

Posted in April 2018, NaPoWriMo 2018, Tanka

Different Perspectives

Posted on by Leonas Lines

Strawberries

1. My Point of View:

“Childhood memories

Of my grandpa’s garden patch

Full of strawberries

And the giant apple tree

That hid me as I ate them.”

2. My Sensible Sister’s Point of View:

“You should’ve asked Gramps

Before your hands reached for

His prize berries

Your temptation caused you

To eat and run to that tree.”

3. My Mom’s Point of View:

“Eating strawberries

From her grandpa’s garden patch

Childhood thief flees to

Apple Tree Sanctuary

Her secret place to hide”

Triple Tanka

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 2 Challenge:

to write a poem that plays with voice. For example, you might try writing a stanza that recounts something in the first-person, followed by a stanza recounting the same incident in the second-person, followed by a stanza that treats the incident from a third-person point of view.

Posted in Choka, March 2018

For The Birds

Posted on by Leonas Lines

For The Birds poem
For The Birds

Springtime Bird Group

Invites all local members

Garden Lunch Meeting

“Meet-Up in The Garden Plot—

A Spring Gathering”

Hosted by “The Friends of Feathers”

Don’t miss this Spring feast

Food will delight all songbirds

Any color or species

Choka

Looking out my patio window just now I saw so many different birds visiting my yard eating the birdseed I had put out.  Previous to today there had been only a flock of Chickadees and occasionally a robin but today many different kinds descended at once together! It seemed as if someone had created a flyer advertising a free lunch in my yard!  That thought inspired today’s poem 🙂