Raven tapping at mind’s door
No small thing…oh, much more
This soul’s tormented, heartsore
Avian beauty’s malevolent message
Ill-Past replayed…forevermore
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/08/29/three-things-challenge-m70/
Prompt words: giggle, silly, infectious
Some days she giggles
When tired, she’s often silly
Laughter’s infectious…
She’s surrounded by folks who
Know best medicine’s Humor
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
“A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing ~ ” Proverbs 17:22, Amplified Bible
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Let us not speak
Of cabbages and kings
One merely green
The other rarely seen
I can’t enjoy this repast, nor
Your consuming celeb trivia
Do look beyond latest trend
All the glitz of social media…
For, there are challenges
Which must be resolved
World problems to solve
Post-haste, without fail
However feasible
Surely not unreasonable…
Something of genius
A genuine plan
Nothing subversive
No, sparkling, creative!
Shall we ponder, dear
Discuss those things?
And pray—if we expect
To continue living.
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/20/cabbages/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/28/genius/
https://fivedotoh.com/2022/08/28/fowc-with-fandango-fail/
Not sure I met the criteria for “opposing forces”…but I gave it a whirl😉
The still breeze blew both
East, west at once…odd, even
To foreigners, friends
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
Buffeted some days
Pilgrim in this foreign land…
Qualifications
Have I none, but of The Way
Soul is ardent follower—
The Shepherd leads me
Onward, places undefined…
Faith, trust built stronger
With every step, mile we gain
His Presence ever remains
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/26/buffet/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/23/pilgrim/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/22/qualification/
https://naturalistweekly.com/2022/08/26/micro-season-the-cotton-lint-opens/
Our friend, Mark S, offers another haiku prompt, “Cotton”. This guy knows just about Everything, I’m convinced. If you haven’t visited his blog, you’re missing out! Click the link to meet him—and learn something!
And now my haiku/senryu:
Cotton blossoms white
Raw pickers’ hands drip scarlet
Blood of servitude
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Sharp bolls cut meanly
Back breaking labor, long days
Sing of “Promised Land”
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/08/27/three-things-challenge-m68/
Prompt words: amuse, funny, laugh
Next month I turn 70—this poem is partial testimony of what The Almighty God has done in my life by the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. Color me glad and grateful!
Days without humor
Heart can’t count, too numerous
Now laughs exceed tears
Life, people often amuse
Most, unwittingly funny
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
Upon branch of greed
Springs leafy fruit, yet worthless
Shoddy soul poisoned
By pride, self-aggrandizement
Pathetic casualty
Consequences due…
Dearth of selflessness
Will work to heart’s detriment
Initial gains lost
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/08/25/three-things-challenge-m66/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/24/branch/
https://fivedotoh.com/2022/08/25/fowc-with-fandango-casualty/
(author’s image)
https://dversepoets.com/2022/08/25/mtb-vertical-lines-of-kisses/
This is one fabulous prompt hosted by Laura Bloomsbury! I won’t copy all the instructions—you can click the link above and get the whole enchilada.
In brief, you choose one option of the poetry lines given by the host, and write a poem wherein every word of that line becomes the first word of each successive line in your poem. Your lines must follow the order of the chosen prompt line. (Although the host indicated a preference for at least 2 stanzas…I felt my poem only needed one.)
This is the line I chose, by Michael Drayton…with poem to follow:
“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part”
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Since delusion could serve me no more
There’s reality’s burden to contend with (stones/ashes)
No reciprocation of love…innocent, undemanding; and
Help was unhelpful, bramble’d path heart endlessly walked…
Come away with me anyway, you’re now ghost unfettered
Let us meet on equal realm…and finally, let
Us embrace, be a-whirl ‘mid deferred passion…
Kiss the breath I breathe while restless sleeping
And whisper words withheld sore-long…my Love
Part from me not, nor ever again!
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://thetwiglets.wordpress.com/2022/08/23/twiglet-293/
Prompt: The sky leans
The sky leans
This way, that
Eavesdropping on
Conversations below—
Lovers breaking up
Making up…
Children whispering
Secrets…strange
Goings on at home…
Elderly couple
Shuffles slow, speaks
Of how it used to be
Kids now grown, gone…
Young man mumbles
To himself, wonders
How he lost his way…
A woman babbles
To her toddler, she
Has no one else…
The sky leans
Heart clouds filled
All its seen, heard
Sky leans a little
Closer to Heaven
Angels descend
One by one, then
2, 3, winging down
Messages, miracles
On their way…
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.