Hushabye world, gray dusk descends
As daylight ends
Time waits for none
Time waits for none
Ebon night looms a sigh away
As sinners pray
Their souls to keep
Their souls to keep
All mortal flesh is born to die
Don’t ask me why
I do not know
I do not know
~kat
A Minute Poem …I added a Refrain element)
Photo from Pixabay
“Oh I hate obnoxious people,”
the woman yelled,
just behind me
as I drank tea.
I thought, ‘how ironic is that!’
Her loud chit-chat
filled the café,
drove guests away.
Such rudeness I could not endure.
I glared at her,
I had no choice,
“an indoor voice?!!!”
~kat
(NaPoWriMo 2017 #21 – A Minute Poem for today’s prompt: write a poem that incorporates overheard speech. This is a true story. 🙂 )
Ribbons of golden sunlight splay
the shades of gray
as glooming clouds
descend like shrouds.
Her chilling kiss of icy mist
denies our bliss;
Chilled to the bone
we rush for home.
But though the day seems dark and cold
Winter grows old.
Her days are few.
Spring plans a coup!
~kat – 3 February 2017
(Minute Poem)
The Minute Poem is rhyming verse form consisting of 12 lines of 60 syllables written in strict iambic meter. The poem is formatted into 3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff.
it’s not like words will change our minds
we’re wasting time
sharing more thoughts
our soul’s are bought
so as this fight comes to an end
to all lost friends
fanatical
collateral
let’s hope we can bridge the divide
once we decide
t’would be a sin
to let hate win
kat ~ 30 August 2016
(A Minute Poem)
when planning for a lovely stroll,
with dog in tow,
to play some fetch
at river’s edge
take care to notice red dawn skies
-word to the wise-
you might regret
the plans you’ve set
if you ignore the coming storms
when you’ve been warned
you’ll feel the pain…
relentless rain.
kat ~ 27 July 2016
A Minute Poem for Jane Dougherty’s Poetry Challenge based on the painting by Franz Marc entitled “In the Rain”, including the following word prompts: Rain, Red, Relentless, River, Regrets.
like mercury colliding... 