Category Archives: Random Thoughts and Musings

March 26, 2021

a good ending

By Kat Myrman 
a good ending

peeper chirps muted
by mist hov’ring o’er the stream 
twilight’s serenade

crimson streams of daylight fading
moon ascending the eastern sky
we bid another day goodbye
my weary bones need no persuading;
sleepy, I am quickly fading
’twas another amazing day
filled with blessings, hard work and play
with bits of kindness, love, romance
someone to share it with, to dance
in warm embrace, to slowly sway

now I lay me down
in the stillness of the gloam
to your breath purring

~kat

For Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Challenge – prompt words Chirp (Purr) & Twilight (Gloam) an opening and ending haiku, combined with the Weekly Décima Challenge, prompt word Dance – D line Rhyme.

The Traditional Décima Poem

Décima poetry is a 10 line stanza with 8 syllables per line. The rhyming pattern is abbaaccddc. Using the 10 lines there are generally two ways to organize: The 10 lines, or breaking the 10 lines into two stanzas using abba/accddc.

The abba/accddc requires either a period or semicolon after the fourth line break.

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March 16, 2021

mere mortals

By Kat Myrman 
mere mortals

it shouldn’t surprise us
how nonchalantly death
steals away our breath
in just a blink
without considering
that we have things to do
life to live, we’re not through
no death don’t care
the cruel fact of it is
when it’s your time to go
you can bet death will show
ready or not
immortality’s not
for mere mortals like us
just accept it, don’t fuss
enjoy the ride

~kat

For Tanka Tuesday’s Theme Prompt this week: “Immortality”, the Abhanga, which is:
·  stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains (4 line stanzas).
·  syllabic, 6/6/6/4 syllables each
·  rhymed L2 and L3 rhyme. Often internal rhyme is employed. End rhyme scheme x a a x , x being unrhymed.

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February 28, 2021

head in the clouds

By Kat Myrman 
head in the clouds

the clouds fell to earth tonight
millions of water droplets swirled 
around me as i walked, my flashlight
capturing their frenzied fluttering
white noise against a starless, 
moonless sky, so this is how it
feels to have one’s head in the 
clouds, dreamlike, catching tiny
water daubs on my skin and
the tips of my hair and eyelashes,
damp, chill, just me and the trees, 
the crunch of gravel under my feet
and the peepers, awake from their
winter slumber, singing of spring 

~kat

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February 16, 2021

dead of winter

By Kat Myrman 
dead of winter

the trees have been silent lately but
for the occasional moan, pressed
to breaking by the wind; the sun,
choked by damp drear hasn’t shown
his face for weeks; all is gray but,
who am i to curse the day, to 
loathe the rain that swells the creeks
and soaks the earth, kissing the 
roots, the dormant seedling shoots 
messy, messy life, muddy, red clay
paw prints on just mopped floors, no 
matter, there are cool wet noses to
kiss and velvet ears to scratch, and a 
book collecting dust on my nightstand, 
it’s crisp pages longing to be caressed, 
words upon beautiful words whispering, 
the irony...giving voice to muted trees

~kat

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January 20, 2021

january 20, 2021 – USA

By Kat Myrman 
january 20, 2021 - USA

it’s time to breathe 
to let the stale air that
choked us free, how long
we have waited, our breath bated
for the light to find us in the nooks,
the safe havens we mistook for home,
oh we have been alone, apart 
too long, starved for touch, feeling
lost, reeling from too high a cost, in lives,
our very souls, trembling here but for 
grace and truth, the truth finally clear, 
it’s time to start a new direction, striving 
for that perfect imperfection, scary, 
messy, hope in balance, sacrifice
our precious talents at the altar
of the whole, united, with one 
solemn goal; let history recall this day
when the air swelled, when time shifted, 
as we breathed in; as we exhaled
the burden of the past was lifted
and we began to heal    

~kat

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