Category Archives: Poetry

January 3, 2016

Sunday’s Week in Verse – 3 January 2016

By Kat Myrman

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Happy 2016! This week’s review is balanced on the cusp of the past and the future…2015 and 2016…out with the old and in with the new! I found myself feeling ever mindful of the present moment. To pause, to breathe and to savor the bliss and happiness to be found in the messiness of life. What a ride! Fasten your seat belts kiddos! Here we go! 🙂

Sunday’s Week in Verse – 3 January 2016

It’s all vanity
Live a life of much less stress
fading petals left there hanging.
Now, I’m not so sure…
like tender kisses
find bliss.
I’m so happy for you…
I think you’re gonna want to see this!
Forget your plans and silly lists
Did you know that is a thing?!
I think I’ll call it “Purple Haze!”
Free souls will spill out.
Jars of savory, sweet spice
The best containers…
life, precious, messy life, is so worth living!

kat ~ 3 January 2016

If you’re new to this blog, a bit of background to explain the verse above. It is a line from each poem or prose from the previous week. Lifted and placed in the order written. A snapshot review of the week. It helps me to prepare for the upcoming week with a clean slate. 

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January 2, 2016

Containers – A Haiku Challenge

By Kat Myrman

Photo Credit: kat 2015

It’s wise not to try
Containing life in a box
Free souls will spill out.

More than eye candy
Jars of savory, sweet spice
Fancy a tongue tryst.

The best containers…
Boxes, jars, pottery, skin
Keep things out…or in?

kat ~ 2 January 2016

A few haiku based on the prompt: container. You can read more or enter your own haiku by clicking HERE.

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January 1, 2016

First-Foot ~ Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku

By Kat Myrman

  
Happy Happy 2016! 

Dictionary.com presents a timely theme for today’s Word of the Day, ” First-Foot”. 

But I must digress. We have many foot-related words and idioms in the English language. There are things a-foot and putting one’s best foot forward, foot-in-mouth dilemmas and placing one foot in front of the other. There is a right-foot, wrong-foot, front foot, back foot, and that trouble-maker, lead foot. 

We can set or not set foot, on foot, find our footing, get our foot in the door, have a foot in both camps, and hopefully not find ourselves with one foot in the grave. Like shooting oneself in the foot, I wouldn’t touch that with a ten-foot pole. And I absolutely put my foot down when it comes to waiting on someone hand and foot, unless of course the shoe is on the other foot and I am the one in waiting! (BTW…I like my veggie foot-long on toasted whole-wheat with a dusting of hot sauce…)

Alas, now I have a new “foot” phrase to add to my vocabulary. It’s a good thing I don’t have podophobia! Did you know that is a thing?! And I do wish to also note, for the record, while we’re on the subject, I am definitely not a podophiliac. In case you were wondering. Just so we’re perfectly clear. Digression ended…on to today’s haiku. I hopes it foots the bill! 😊

Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku

As the clock ticked one
First-foot o’er my heart’s threshold
A dear old friend…Hope!

kat ~ 1 January 2016

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December 31, 2015

Countdown to Now

By Kat Myrman

 

Cascading Cedar by Kat Myrman 2015

 

Tick tock countdown…ten, nine, eight…
Another year waits at the gate
As last year’s memories start to fade
And new beginning plans are made
Let’s reconcile all regrets
And make our peace with goals not met
The slate is clean to pen anew
Our greatest hopes for dreams come true
Alas, before the clock ticks one
Take a breath what’s done is done
A moment’s pause is all we need
To tap into eternity
With no beginning and no end
It truly comes to this my friend
Forget your plans and silly lists
Embrace the bliss of mindfulness!

kat ~ 31 December 2015

A most Happy New Year full of precious moments to you and yours! I haven’t been a WordPresser long, but the friendships from those of you who have liked my posts and seen fit to even follow me have so enriched my life. Thank you for your presence! Peace out! ❤️

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December 30, 2015

Just Breathe

By Kat Myrman

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Days when
nothing goes right
despite our intentions
life spirals into lunacy…
Just Breathe
to find a clearer perspective
practicing mindfulness
in that moment
find bliss.

kat ~ 30 December 2015

Since I didn’t get the chance to participate in Jane Dougherty’s Butterfly Cinquain Challenge I am combining it with this final challenge of 2015: To use a saying as my prompt for a poem. My saying forms the “body” of my little butterfly giving balance to its two opposing wings. I love the look of this poetry form! Happy New Year everyone! If you’d like to read other takes on Jane’s latest challenge, click HERE!

(A butterfly cinquain is a nine-line syllabic verse of the following pattern: 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 2 / 8 / 6 / 4 / 2.)

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