Beautiful treasures
Collect dust in our cupboards
As if things matter.
kat ~ 15 March 2016
A Haiku for TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge based on the prompt word: Cupboard. Read other haiku or ener your own HERE.
Category Archives: Poetry
Joker Smile & Plan B
A few Haiku for RonovanWrites Haiku Challenge based on the prompt word “Lift” & “Plan”. For more information click HERE.
In her vanity
She planned a simple face lift
Not a “joker” smile.
Always have a plan
Even if it’s called Plan B
Some goals need backup.
kat ~ 15 March 2016
Word of the Day Haiku Challenge 3
This week we have Haiku inspired by two Words of the Day. Let’s take a look back at Tuesday and Friday!
Tuesday’s Word of the Day from Dictionary.com: Isonomy – noun. Equality of political rights
Your isonomy
is very important now
with elections soon.
PJ (Priceless Joy) @ beautifulwords
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Friday’s Word of the Day from Dictionary.com: Psittacism – noun. mechanical, repetitive, and meaningless speech.
Some psittacisms
like a Mother’s do”s and don’t’s,
haunt the guilty.
Smug bible thumpers
drone vapid psittacisms…
Actions speak louder.
Catchy talking points,
When fools use psittacisms,
There is no debate!
kat @ likemercurycolliding
If you would like to join us this week, here are the rules! 😊
Word of the Day Haiku Challenge
1. Pick a day that works for you. Once you pick your day, stick to it. This is what makes it fun and quite a challenge.
2. Choose an online dictionary that features a word of the day. I use dictionary.com but there are others. Pick your go-to dictionary.
3. Create a Haiku using the word of the day. In this challenge, no synonyms allowed.
4. A Haiku is a three line poem with the syllable structures 3-5-3 or 5-7-5.
5. (Optional) If you want, you may also post a expanded history of the word, your thoughts about the word, or some unusual facts about the word of the day.
6. Post a link to your Haiku in the comments so I can find you.
7. I’ll post the weekly roll call list on Sunday. So you have until Saturday at midnight (EST) to post your haiku.
8. Have fun!
PJ (Priceless Joy) @ beautifulwords
Circadian Shift
Animated Art created by Kat Myrman March 2016
I do not like this spring time change
I don’t need daylight…I need sleep
I wake up feeling quite shortchanged
I do not like this spring time change
To lose one hour just feels strange,
shifting my circadian bleeps
I do not like this spring time change
I don’t need daylight…I need sleep
kat ~ 13 March 2016
A triolet (/ˈtraɪ.əlᵻt/ or US /ˌtriː.əˈleɪ/) is a stanza poem of eight lines. Its rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and often all lines are in iambic tetrameter: the first, fourth and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines, thereby making the initial and final couplets identical as well.
Little Girls Read
Photo Credit: http://photo.elsoar.com
little girls read between the lines
“to gain attention play the part”
she must be pretty all the time
be nothing more than living art
to gain attention play the part
when fashionistas call the shots
be nothing more than living art
she’s valued most when she is “hot”
when fashionistas call the shots
scholarly goals are second rate
she’s valued most when she is “hot”
try as we may to educate
scholarly goals are second rate
unlike her brothers wild and free
try as we may to educate
she’ll fight for opportunities
unlike her brothers wild and free
little girls read between the lines
she’ll fight for opportunities
she must be pretty all the time
kat ~ 11 March 2016
Forgive me! I blame my cynicism on this election season! Alas we are not there yet…just tapping on that elusive glass ceiling…and I fear that those longing for the good old days might be our undoing. Rant over!
A Pantoum for Jane Dougherty’s weekly poetry challenge. Read more about the Pantoum and the other poem entries HERE.
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