Category Archives: Poetry

September 9, 2016

Forget Me

By Kat Myrman

Please don’t bring me flowers
they won’t help me forget
they only bring sadness

you’d like me to forget
how you caused this sadness
love fades like plucked flowers

ripped from their roots, sadness
crushes lifeless flowers
of course they can’t forget

So take your dead flowers, forget me and leave me to my sadness.

kat ~ 9 September 2016

This is in response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry Challenge, to write a Tritina based on this gloomy painting. Jane suggested that we choose three words before starting our poem after looking at the painting. These are the words I chose:
1. Flowers
2. Forget
3. Sadness

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September 6, 2016

Retroreflection

By Kat Myrman

Having a bit of fun as usual with TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge. He gave us a Theme: Retro and a Prompt: Reflect. I wondered to myself if there was such a thing as a “Retroreflection” and to my surprise, there was! It all has to do with lights and lasers and prisms and reflections. Basically it is when light bounces off the side angle of the inside corner of a prism to the other side and back forming a reflective ray that is parallel with the source ray. I also learned that it is the science the behind the reflective paint used for street markings and traffic signs! Who knew?

At any rate, here’s a little diagram for you and my Haiku.  Have a lovely Tuesday! 🙂

retroreflection

This diagram is from Edmund’s Optics Worldwide’s webpage titled: Introduction to Optical Prisms. Click HERE to learn more!

Retroreflection – A Haiku

Retroreflection…
prismatic parallel rays
yes, it is a “thing”!

kat ~ 6 September 2016

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September 6, 2016

Bending…The Rules

By Kat Myrman
deep-root

The aftermath of a derecho. The tree was in my neighbor’s yard; it’s upper branches soon to fill my back yard past the second floor of my house! Fortunately it only took out our fence and two pine trees that we wanted to remove anyway. 🙂

This week’s Haiku Horizon Challenge word prompt is “Bend”. I have seen what damage can be done when trees stand too rigid against the wind. And I have seen what can happen when a friendship is tested requiring one party to bend too far. In this case there is a fine line between helping and enabling. A good friend knows the boundaries. 🙂

Here are my Haiku then…one about bending and one about knowing when to stand firm. 🙂

Bending…The Rules

good friends will often
bend over backwards to help
but not enable

deeply rooted trees
may only survive tempests
by learning to bend

kat ~ 6 September 2016

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September 5, 2016

Magnetic Musings

By Kat Myrman

after it rains this world
becomes wildly alive
the air thick and sweet and
the earth vivid and wild in
deep shades of blue and green
life thrives best when wet

kat – 5 September 2016

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September 5, 2016

Magnetic Poetry Monday ~ 5 September 2016

By Kat Myrman

intuition rocks our world
with wild seeds of secret
knowing…it is like a
tendriled root vining a
deep path through one’s
soul…no peace…quiet
only if we listen

kat – 5 September 2016

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