Micropoetry

Think she cannot sink? Thoughts of love keep her afloat Winds mock her vision The fog blinds her to the conspiring pricks in faith.   For Photo Challenge #157 https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/photo-challenge-157/

The grey veil creates a haze on clarity of vision. The sun will soon shine through Hope springs eternal.   Shadorma for Saturday Mix - March 25 https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/saturday-mix-march-25-2017-bastet/

The evening light warms the artist’s empty heart and molten colors stroke the canvas with a brush to paint grass multi-color.   Tanka inspired by Sue Vincent's #writephoto prompt https://scvincent.com/2017/03/23/thursday-photo-prompt-empty-writephoto/

Life is a cruel joke played upon us by the maker. We are sent unprepared and unarmed. There is no briefing or debriefing, before or after the mission. You come, you stay, you conquer. Or you come, you cry, you lose. The gate at the end looks the same from here. Do we know what … Continue reading Unsupervised

Extracted piece This bald year, this cold day in the wind. Noon hurts her eyes. The torn awkwardness. the mind goes round. there’s a center but never any certainty. Malleable moment. breathing in a spring. Experience. the Maiden’s Death.   This is different from what I usually write. But I wanted to change the dark … Continue reading The Loss of Virginity

Love blew her away only to disappear again with the wind.   Inspired by https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2017/03/20/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-141-breezeblow/    

HAIKU Water is strong till fire evaporates it or the earth absorbs. TANKA Earth holds water to become ether of life, fire existence. The mother of all life never has airs about it. HAIBUN The body is made up of five elements – earth, fire, water, air and ether. It is the ether that fascinates … Continue reading The Elements

The White Out Wednesday Challenge is one I rarely want to miss, despite time constraints. This one was not particularly easy. http://www.livingthecountrylife.com/gardening/romance-bloom-plants-ties-love-or-heartache/ I have extracted seven haikus from the given piece. The order of words have changed at some places to create effect.   Romance in bloom by the blossoms of love-in-a-mist mists are romantic. a certain … Continue reading Seven Haikus

Beautiful flowers just spring out of nowhere bringing the clouds down to proclaim their love before floating far away.   Violets mock clouds as they blossom steadily but surely, into beautiful flowers, which can stop the rains in their own track.   Inspired by Colleen's Weekly Tanka Poetry Challenge https://colleenchesebro.com/2017/03/14/colleens-weekly-tanka-poetry-challenge-25-clouds-spring/ Image : pixabay.com