Category Archives: Poetry

Conversation with a Late Bloomer

Pausing from my usual busyness the other day has touched something inside of me it seems…I am not likely to get over it for a few days at least. And so a revisit with my late-blooming rose bush…<3 I hope you don’t mind. 🙂

Photo Credit: kat 2015

Photo Credit: kat 2015

You’re not much to look at
you know…from afar. You,
with your moth-nibbled
extremities and drying seed
pods. Soon, it will be
time to cut you
back, before the frost
settles in regularly. To
put you out of the misery
of your inevitable deflowering.
Coming to the end of one’s
season is not pretty and yet…
as I draw near I realize
you still have a bit of flash
and sass left in you. A few
more stunning songs to sing,
one last story to tell…
the audacity of a late
bloomer, past prime, impassioned
electric life coursing through
your veins, albeit more slowly.

Photo Credit: kat 2015

Photo Credit: kat 2015

I suppose I could learn a thing
or two from you if I stopped
long enough to notice. You…
and your haughty flash of
crimson stopping me
in my tracks…you had me
at first spring’s bud,
you know. I agree, it
would be rude of me
to ignore you through
your last blooming.

Photo Credit: kat 2015

Photo Credit: kat 2015

~ kat ~ 4 November 2015


Short Term Amnesia

 

I keep forgetting…
Do you mind repeating it?
I keep forgetting…

~ kat ~ 4 November 2015

Haiku for the prompt “Forget” from Haiku Horizons weekly challenge. Read more HERE.


Haiku Mind

Ever interesting, is Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge. It’s hard to resist this fun challenge. This week’s prompts are Haiku and Mind! So anyhoo, I have half a mind today… actually I’m feeling a wee bit under the weather, so my creative mind is a bit foggy 🙂 This is what you get from a foggy mind. 🙂 Maybe I’ll revisit this challenge when I’m feeling better…or not 🙂

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The Japanese Symbols for “Haiku”

I hope you don’t mind
I wrote a Haiku for you
I couldn’t resist!

~kat~ 2 November 2015

If you can’t resist this weekly challenge, like me, follow the link by clicking HERE to read other Haiku or to play along.


Sunday Week in Review – 1 November 2015

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A curious week this was, what with a full moon, and Halloween, thinning veils and spooky themes. It made for quite an interesting verse in review, but as it always seems to, this week makes perfect sense in retrospect. And so we settle in to begin a new week and a new month. Darker, shorter days and cooling temperatures. Hope you had a great week too! 😊 See you on the other side!  

Sunday Week in Review – 1 November 2015

She was a collector of old things,
Tomorrow
Nips at our heels
With troubles
That can
Wait.
The footsteps behind her got faster.
deep cerulean on white
Next time you decide to be a hero, let someone know!
her reflection lied
But it is the photo pictured above that he carries with him always.
Someone really should move that old chair
but don’t intrude
the spirit world encroaches
“Unbelievable!” he cried.
moonglow and cricket song
and at the shore i like my
sea to foam in azure mist,
The choir sweetly sang
avoiding every sidewalk crack
They’ll find you my sweet.

~kat~ 1 November 2015

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 clean the slate…reflect and ready myself for the new week. 


Spooky – A Limerick

Sash the doors, turn out the lights…
try to hide this spooky night!
They’ll find you my sweet
And howl, “trick or treat!”
Greedy for sugary delights!

~kat~ 31 October 2015

A Limerick Challenge from Sometimes Steller Storyteller. Prompt: Spooky. Click HERE to read more!