Yesterday’s market
Abundance of fruit
All my favorites
Lavishly displayed
Berries red and blue
Cherries gleaming gold
Sugar kissed peaches
Fruitful paradise
Yet, vegetables
Were speaking to me
Not in audible
Like in Veggie Tales
But with visual
Attraction and scent
Vegetables spoke
Of their beauty
Fruit lover listened
Syllabic Verse
Out of place?
Out of season?
A misfit in my path?
Or a reminder sent by God?
A note
To awaken me to count the days,
Wasting not a moment?
“Redeem the time”
He says.
Butterfly Cinquain
“Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don’t waste it.” —LeCrae
Covered in roses
Their fragrance trailing her
June passed by
Bidding us fond farewell
Soon she’ll be a fond memory
Tanka
At the close of day
In soft evening sunlight
Garden’s rosy glow
Haiku
Roses are abloom
Among fast growing green grass
Baby birds in flight
Sunshine visits us daily
Summer finally arrived!
Tanka
(Celebrating the First Day of Summer!)
Basking in the warmth of her sunshine
I walked awhile with March
Dreaming of hot summer days
Until she led me through a glen
Where winds blew cold
Thru shaded trees
Where Winter
Hid Spring’s
Smile
Nonet
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. —Charles Dickens
Oh worry not weary one
Spring shall surely come
Winter shall soon be done
Oh worry not weary one
Spring’s life has begun
And winter must succum
Oh worry not weary one
Spring shall surely come
Triolet
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8:22
Dressed in flaming red
Standing tall, yet she weeps for
The warm days of summer
Haiku
Though summer left, the roses remain
Monoku
(The sturdy rose bush by my front door continues to bloom beautifully even in these Fall days .)
Dancing in the sun
We spent summer days together
What a pair we made.
Haiku
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 