Here’s a haiku submission from erikleo over at All Things Creative, an intriguing blog featuring one of our favorite poetic forms… haikus!
after my mother’s funeral
I shovel earth onto her coffin
not knowing when to stop
September’s Theme – “Round And Round We Spin…
…. with feet of lead and wings of tin” – Kurt Vonnegut
Last month was all about the positivity and idealism of looking to a glorious future, the month before it was all about changing the past, so this month let’s discuss the things that bridge the two! You know, those dastardly clingy remnants of the past that affect and influence the here and now.
Theme – Baggage ORRRRRRRRRR That Which Lingers
Structure – Double Acrostic
C’mon people, be prepared to work those vocabularies and dust off your thesaurus!
– Jessie Gutierrez
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Ode – Future – JG
A compass and a promise
A direction and a vow
To let love lead life now Continue reading “Ode – Future – JG”
Haiku Sunday – Sea of Life 2
“Sea of Life 2”
Thus is one person;
A mote of dust to an age,
Lost in life’s current.
Steve D
haiku and tanka
Happy Haiku Sunday! Here’s a haiku/tanka piece from erikleo, simplistic yet intriguing. Check out more of his work: erikleo.wordpress.com
on the paving slab
a slug’s silvery map
sets off an apricot stone
the Arctic terns have flown south –
late August, alone in a bird hide
sitting in the sun –
a tiny insect crawls across
my poem
godwits drilling the still pond –
ripples in the universe
watching bumble bees spiral into petals
I rub lavender leaves between fingers
releasing scent
but it doesn’t ease
my throbbing head
Color Schemes – Deadlines – JG
Deadlines and the end of an era.
Blast the bass, get lost in Dead Sara,
How to compare the
missing.
Always in increments: increase, increase, never cease
No peace, only pieces
Of a memory
Of what never happened because of poor timing. Continue reading “Color Schemes – Deadlines – JG”
Concept Art – What is Love? Baby, Don’t Hurt Me
Cheesy music reference aside, Concept Art is going to be a semi-serious, introspective series. After a truly heartbreaking conversation a lot of times I prefer to dwell on abstractions instead of vivid details and relevant circumstances, so I thought I might as well start out big or go home.
And thus:
Love. Continue reading “Concept Art – What is Love? Baby, Don’t Hurt Me”
Quick Rip: Dead Sara Rocks Me to Goosebumps
I have “discovered” yet another band who has been rocking out for years without my knowledge. It’s like a piece of my soul has been wandering aimlessly, and has just now been returned to its proper place in the ever-growing anthology of musical moments-in-time of my life. Why does this keep happening to me?! Continue reading “Quick Rip: Dead Sara Rocks Me to Goosebumps”
Haiku Sunday – Sea of Life
“Sea of Life”
Is a wave mere dust
A speck of foam in the tide
Rolling ever on?
Steve D
an ode – August theme – Marcy Erb
an ode
this is a song of living
to the uncertainty that futures bring
although it seems silly to praise
our life of low precision
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