Tag: worldly

Posted in April 2018, NaPoWriMo 2018, Triolet

Extravagance

Posted on by Leonas Lines

Garbage, Trash

Wanting and wasting are we

Living in a plastic worldly tent

Of high tech commodity

Wanting and wasting are we

Our waste destroying the sea

And littering our enviroment

Wanting and wasting are we

Living in a plastic worldly tent

Triolet

This poem is based on an “up-ended” meaning of this phrase: “waste not, want not”

This is actually a proverb which means:

if you use a commodity or resource carefully and without extravagance, you will never be in need.

This was one of my mom’s favorite sayings. She lived the the Great Depression. We would all do well to learn to do this nowadays.

NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 13

we challenge you to write a poem in which the words or meaning of a familiar phrase get up-ended.of a familiar phrase get up-ended.

Posted in Choka, June 2017

Treasures of the Heart

Posted on by Leonas Lines

Treasures of the Heart
Moth and rust corrupt

Thieves break in and do steal

Treasures on earth

Surely decay and vanish 

So dont be decieved

Lay up treasures in heaven 

They’ll last eternally

For where your heart is focused

There your treasure shall be

Choka

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6:19-21