Author Archives: Kat Myrman

April 23, 2016

April Poetry Month – A Poem a Day #23

Happy Saturday! I hope you had a wonderful day. Today I am going to try a short like three line poem called the Than-Bauk. It often expresses a witty saying or epigram (Epigrams are also associated with humor or a memorable statement. Early epigrams were used by the Greek in memory of a deceased loved one.)

The Than-Bauk is a three line “climbing rhyme” poem of Burmese origin. Each line has four syllables . The rhyme is on the fourth syllable of the first line, the third syllable of the second line, and the second syllable of the third line.

In Memory of the Sun

At dusk the sun’s
waning runs red
soon comes the night.

kat ~ 23 April 2016

5 Comments | tags: poem a day dusk, Poetry, poetry form, sunset, than-bauk | posted in Challenges and Writing Prompts, Essays, Poetry, Random Thoughts and Musings

April 22, 2016

April Poetry Month – A Poem a Day #22

By Kat Myrman

It’s Friday and raining, but a lovely day. I had a course of study that I needed to complete. Done and done. So on to today’s poetry form the Etheree. This poetry form consists of 10 lines of 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 syllables. It can also be reversed, 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 or written as a double, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 or a triple, etc. on to infinity. And that’s all there is to it! 🙂

Here’s my take on the Etheree and the rain…J

Rain,
cleansing,
refreshing,
life sustaining,
pitter pattering
heavy droplets descend
forming tiny dust craters,
infusing the parched earth below
the surface of barren fields with seed
soon to burst into verdant waves of green.

kat ~ 22 April 2016

8 Comments | tags: Etheree, Poem a Day, Poetry, poetry month, rain | posted in Challenges and Writing Prompts, Essays, Poetry, Random Thoughts and Musings

April 22, 2016

Biota – Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku

By Kat Myrman

biota

Happy Friday and welcome to another exciting installment of Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku! Haha! Today’s word from Dictionary.com is Biota. Originating in the early 1900’s it is based on the Greek word biotē, meaning “life”. Biota is a term used in the field of ecology. Wikipedia defines it as such:

A biota is the total collection of organisms of a geographic region or a time period, from local geographic scales and instantaneous temporal scales all the way up to whole-planet and whole-timescale spatiotemporal scales. The biotas of the Earth make up the biosphere.

Here’s my haiku! Have a great weekend!

It is sad but true
some don’t give one iota
for earth’s biota.

kat ~ 22 April 2016

and a P.S. as I was just reminded…Happy Earth Day! 🙂

17 Comments | tags: biota, dictiinary.com, ecology, word of the day, word of the day haiku challenge | posted in Essays, Haiku, Poetry, Random Thoughts and Musings, Word of the Day Haiku

April 22, 2016

Echoes of my Neighborhood

By Kat Myrman

This odd little place is in my neighborhood just a few blocks from my house.. I wrote about the St. Therese statue earlier this week Here are a few more photos…

This photo montage is in response to Jacqueline’s (a cooking pot and twisted tales) call for echoes of our neighborhoods.

7 Comments | tags: Challenge, Echoes of my Neighborhood, oddities | posted in Essays, Random Thoughts and Musings, Spirituality

April 21, 2016

the long winter – a three line tale

By Kat Myrman

Photo by kazuend

He promised to meet her, in the spring in the cherry tree grove.
But that year winter and the war held on, cold and cruel.
That year for him…and for her…spring never came.

kat ~ 21 April 2016
A Three Line Tale in response to Sonya’s (only 100 words) weekly challenge based on the photo prompt above.

16 Comments | tags: 3 Line Tales, Challenge, cherry blossom, death, spring, Winter | posted in 3 Line Tales, Flash Fiction