Remembering winter
Keeps me cool, as the
Summer sun beats down
Syllabic Verse
These last few days have really been hot here in my area, 100 degree days. It’s pretty hot but I am not complaining because I remember how long it took for our weather to warm up and how many chilly days we had to endure waiting for this summer weather.
So I am just doing my best to stay fairly cool and enjoy it while it lasts because summer will be gone before long!
Watching the rain fall
Remembering days of old
Reflections in rain
Reminders of times past
All runoff like raindrops
Tanka
My Dad 1967 standing near what was left of his childhood home in Sisseton, South Dakota
My people are all gone away
Leaving me with memories
That live on and stay
Siblings can no longer play
Under the South Dakota trees
They are all gone away
I alone stand today
With active sensories
That live on and stay
Under the heavy clouds of gray
I see them in reveries
They are all gone away
My pen searches to convey
Words filled with remedies
That live on and stay
Reaching to grasp each past day
I stand yet float feathery
They are all gone away
That live on and stay
Villanelle
(“They are all gone away” line taken from:”The House on the Hill” by Edwin Arlington Robinson—a Villanelle Poem)
(“They are all gone away” and “That live on and stay” are two phrases that oppose each other)
#NaPoWriMo 2019–Day 5-Prompt: today we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that incorporates at least one of the following: (1) the villanelle form, (2) lines taken from an outside text, and/or (3) phrases that oppose each other in some way. If you can use two elements, great – and if you can do all three,
Dressed in flaming red
Standing tall, yet she weeps for
The warm days of summer
Haiku
Years, Tears, and Fears
Evaporated and gone.
Seasons and Reasons in
Time have passed on.
Each moment now spent
Reliving them is pointless.
Days of old are done,
All just memories of the Past.
Yearning won’t bring them back.
Seek today and live!
Acrostic
Sitting in my chair
Remembering times spent
With you over the years
The good times and sad times
I count as blessings
As each time was as glue
Molding us together
Creating special memories
For us to hold and treasure.
Choka
It’s over and done
Do not focus on the past
Look at here and now
Senryu
Seems just yesterday!
Where has the time gone?
I stood in that booth
Needing loose change, asking
“Brother can you spare a dime?”
Tanka
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 