spring is springing bud-bursts dot the towering trees spring is springing morning breaks with songbirds singing the scent of greening on the breeze filling our hearts with joie de vivre spring is springing
~kat
Happy almost spring to you! There are glimmers everywhere…especially now that spring is in the wings! For today, I am happy to ignore the spin and chaos and just enjoy the beauty of the season. Soon the hills will be covered in green dotted with bright perennials, and the trees will burst with leaves just in time to shelter nesters and fledglings. And the doe will be fawning… I wonder if we’ll have a set of twins or triplets wandering through as we have in years passed?! Even in the midst of dreadful daily news spring gives us so much look forward to in gratitude!
Peace, love and spring glimmers to you!
~kat
Today’s poetry form…the Rondelet
The Rondelet
7 lines
Lines 1, 3, and 7 are refrains
Refrain lines are 4 syllables long, other lines are 8 syllables
winter’s fading melting away under the sun winter’s fading remnants of snow veiled in shading linger, though the shift has begun the days grow warm, spring’s soon to come winter’s fading
~kat
These days when it feels like there is never enough time (hence, this late daily posting), there is also the acknowledgement that time brings change, welcome change in the passing of one season to the next. Those in between seasons are my favorites. Autumn when the cooling temperatures bring a refreshing relief to the heat of summer and spring when the frigid cold of winters warms and a new cycle of life begins. There is hope in the in between. Dare I say “a glimmer”?!
Peace, love and warm glimmers to you!
~kat
Today we try our hand at the Rondelet. (You know I love a good refrain!). Here are the bones of a rondelet poem:
7 lines
Lines 1, 3, and 7 are refrains
Refrain lines are 4 syllables long, other lines are 8 syllables
it’s hard to ignore the elephants they’re showing up everywhere these days it’s hard to ignore the elephants proponents of fear, malevolence be cautious friends, what you do and say they’re watching you, in a creepy way it’s hard to ignore the elephants
it’s hard to ignore the elephants they live next door, you’re never alone it’s hard to ignore the elephants they know what you choose and where you spend they’re following you, they’re in your phone nowhere is safe, not even home it’s hard to ignore the elephants
it’s hard to ignore the elephants who judge and convict with full rancor it’s hard to ignore the elephants so beware if you are different, female, vulnerable, foreigner it’s coming soon, their vindictive purge it’s hard to ignore the elephants
~kat
Still processing…still coming to terms with what and who this country is. And trying to figure out as a gay, senior, female citizen, how to survive the coming years, with promised threats from the new leaders coming in who are against my very existence and ability to survive. I used to think being kind, living under the radar, minding my own business and not making waves would be enough to live a good life, to be safe. I am having a hard time believing that now. The winners in our recent election are emboldened and meaner than ever. And they’ve got an agenda that promises to make life a living hell for the marginalized, immigrants, refugees, lgbtq+ folk, women, non-radical evangelicals, progressives in general, law-abiding truth tellers, the elderly, the poor, and middle class. It feels like a nightmare and I’m trying to fight the urge to shut down and go into hiding. I’m tryin to find the courage to step out and join others in the fight, but I’ve got to admit, I’m tired folks. Why can’t we all just live and let live and mind our own damn business. The reality…this reality sucks. Which is why I’m putting this out here. Sharing my truth with whoever takes the time or is interested is reading it. And if you’re still here, peace to you. I’m a survivor…and I’ve got a little light still. We’ll get through this. It just sucks that we have to fight to do it.
I’m doing just fine I wake up each day; I’m living, breathing I’m doing just fine sometimes I let myself think of the times we still talked, and I give in to grieving smile on my face, it’s me I’m deceiving I’m doing just fine
~kat
A Rondelet for Mind Love Misery’s Menagerie Sunday Writing Prompt, prompt word: Recovery. A Rondelet is a French form consisting of a single septet with two rhymes and one refrain: AbAabbA. The refrain is written in tetra-syllabic or dimeter and the other lines are twice as long – octasyllabic or tetrameter.
no, I will not
make resolutions I can’t keep
no, I will not
this yearly pressure has to stop
what of the ‘benny’s’ I might reap?
lose some weight…perhaps get more sleep…
…no… I will not
~kat
For Mind Love Misery’s Menagerie Sunday Writing Prompt – Topic: New Year’s Resolutions…(I do not make them, BTW…too much pressure!)
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