Like a fading leaf
I wonder as I age
And detach from life
On my aged tree
Just what the end will be
I am trusting and
Praying that God’s angels
Catch me when I fall
Asleep on this earth
And like the wind
Gently take me up
To my eternal home
Where I will live on
In the God’s presence
On His Tree of Life
Syllabic Verse
#OctPoWriMo Day 16
Troubles
Everyday
Coming someone’s way
What can I say, but sigh and pray
Always
Cinquain
Wildfires, Flooding
Displacing many from homes
Natural disasters
Elements out of control
Need divine intervention
Tanka
Taking time to show you care
Offering up a sincere prayer,
Meeting a strangers need,
Doing a small kindly deed,
Sometimes means a whole lot more
Than lots of money given to the poor
Do something small for the least
Let God multiply it into a feast
Rhyme
Afraid?
What is “the thing”?
What is the “that” in you
Which is so big it causes such
Great Fear?
Wonder if someday it suddenly
Becomes real and comes?
What will you do?
Panic?
Or Pray?
What will you do?
Will you fight or just freeze?
Will you crumble in trepidation?
I know
What i would do because it’s come.
And I am trusting God
To remove it
From me.
Double Butterfly Cinquain
Job 3:25–“For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.”
Again and again I cry
Again and again I stay
Again and again I sigh
Again and again I pay
Again and again I try
Again and again I pray
Syllablic Verse
Dark, gloomy morning
A reminder to stop, pray,and
Give thanks for light
Senryu
In everything give thanks…
1Thessalonians 5;18
“Everything happens for a reason”
Is what mother used to always say
“Today troubles may visit you”
“But tomorrow’s a new day”
” Always keep looking up”
“God will make a way”
“This too shall pass”
“Don’t dismay”
“Just trust,
N’ pray”
Reverse Etheree
Leona J. Atkinson 2016
#NaPoWriMo–Day 19–Prompt: Didactic poem that focuses on a practical skill.
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 