
Thankful for today’s challenge which offered me the opportunity to write my first Terzanelle!

This Shadorma poem was written in response to the blog post: A Photo that Inspires Words by Leanne Cole 06-19-14

[NaPoWriMo–Day 21] [April 2014 PAD Challenge–Day 21–“Back to the Basics”]
In sleep
My mind writes verse
I wish I could capture
Such beautiful poetic lines
Awake
Cinquain
Leona J. Atkinson. 03-25-14
Tonight I fell asleep before writing my poem to post. I kept dreaming of poems and writing some in my sleep. Yet, when I woke up I could not remember any of them. I wish I could have, as in my dreams they seemed to be very good. Thus, the reason I wrote this poem.
Keep your focus, keep your focus.
Though others may, you cannot.
Stay within your newly found locus.
Keep your focus, keep your focus.
Don’t listen to all their hocus.
Remember when tempted, the hard battle that you fought.
Keep your focus, keep your focus.
Though others may, you cannot.
Triolet
Leona J. Atkinson. 03-05-14
My mom’s day of birth.
She is no longer here on earth.
Heaven celebrates
Her presence within its gates.
I remember her and give thanks.
In remembrance of my Mom who was born August 25, 1915 and passed into heaven October 10, 2001
Tanka
Leona J. Atkinson 08-25-13

Tiny little flowers
In white, pink and blue
How could anyone
Ever forget you?
For you surely are significant
Your beauty’s not obscure
In my garden you are welcomed
Even though you’re miniature
For size doesn’t designate
A flowers sense of worth
As often it’s the little things
That are most regarded on this earth
Therefore you need not worry
As you grow in my garden plots
For I will always remember you
My little Forget-Me-Nots
Leona J. Atkinson 05-31-13

The last Monday in May
We pause to remember
All those who fought and fell
For freedom’s cause.
Let us never forget the price
that is paid for freedom.
Leona J. Atkinson 05-26-13
The Red Poppy is a reminder of those who fought and fell in World War 1.
Read the immortal poem “In Flamders Fields” by Lt. Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)