Posted in Butterfly Cinquain, July 2016

Doubts

staircase
To win

Don’t dwell with doubts

Doubts are just traitors

They promote fear, cause loss

In life

They keep attempts from happening

Quench good and create losers

Do not listen

To them

Butterfly Cinquain

(Inspired by Shakespeare)

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” 

-William Shakespeare 

Posted in February 2016, Tanka

Primrose Path

Primrose Path--Tanka poem
Original Poetry and Photographs by Leona J. Atkinson ©2016

The primrose path refers to a life of ease and pleasure, or to a course of action that seems easy and appropriate
but can actually end in calamity.–(from Wikipedia)