Here
within
this moment,
pause, suspended
between once upon
and come what may,
midway there
from here
to
now
let go
be present
breathe in, breathe out
practice mindfulness
eternity
in theory
is not
when.
kat ~ 13 January 2016
A descending/ascending nonet for Jane Dougherty’s poetry challenge this week. The challenge is to write a short poem using the prompt “Bridge”. If you would like to read other poems or enter your own, please click HERE.
I couldn’t resist! Just one more Haiku for RonovanWrites’ challenge this week, inspired by the beautiful ill-fated ice crystals that form on my windshield each morning. I know I should pause and take in their loveliness, but I have a schedule to keep, so…
Alas, I admit to just a twinge of guilt. But we all have a dark side, don’t we? I just never thought I could be so ruthless! TeeHee. 😉
Ill-fated Ice Crystals
Wretched ice crystals
you hope for admiration…
“Now meet your ‘Scraper’!”kat ~ 12 January 2016
From the Original Addams Family…Lurch looks in on Cousin It.
Just for fun, some online friends and I started a rolling message game of exploring the word IT. You know…someone started IT. Then someone asked, “What is IT?” Another posted, “I don’t get IT.” And another, “You still haven’t given IT a chance.”… “Get with IT”…”IT is not that difficult”…you get IT…IT went on for hours…just when we thought we had put IT to rest, someone would start IT all over again, and IT would have us going. IT was impossible to resist. I can honestly say that IT was great fun, even if IT made us all a little crazy. I would do IT again if I could get someone to play along with IT. Okay…okay…there’s a Haiku somewhere in all of this. I’ll let IT rest and and get on with IT…:) IT just happens to be the inspiration for my Haiku for Haiku Horizon’s prompt FIND.
Finding It
It makes you happy
so go out there and find it
but first…what is “it”?kat ~ 5 January 2016
If you would like to read other Haiku or participate with your own take on this week’s prompt, click HERE.
Endless Spiral Staircase in Munich. Photograph by Philipp Klinger. Sculpture design by Olafur Eliasson
True eternity
is not a destination
a continuum?
kat ~ 4 January 2016
I like to double-check my format when doing a RonovanWrites Haiku. Once I figured out the rules, it is hard for me to write a Haiku any other way. At any rate here are the checks…
-3 lines – 5/7/5 (Check)
-Sentence – Lines 1-2: True eternity is not a destination. (Check)
-Sentence – Lines 2-3: Is not a destination a continuum? and (CHECK!)…I really like the way that second sentence flipped into a question! Sometimes I even surprise myself! 🙂
This week’s Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge employs the words “Vast” and “Clear” (or in the case of this offering, thesaurus researched representations of the words in question: Vast – Eternity / Clear – True). If you would like to read other Haiku or enter your own interpretation, click HERE.
like mercury colliding... 