24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
It is the last hour and I still don’t know how to write a Haiku.
How many syllables go into this again?
Is it a sentence or a prose?
Who the hell knows?
It was a goal loosely formed
For me to learn
How to write a successful haiku
But I have failed miserably.
Guess gonna try again next year.
Sayonora. I made it through another Half Poetry Marathon
Without actually learning or dare I say writing
A freaking Haiku!
Tomorrow I promise to try a new.
Artist means nothing
Nothing means darkness
Darkness means empty
Empty means space
Space means existence
Artist means existence
the rain comes down in bunches and bursts
the trees are silent witnesses
the pond beyond receives it
gratefully and then swells
in fullness and pride
peacocks arrive
strut their wares
silence
now
death seeps in
poisons the mind
turns all the good memories into painful ones
unites us for a minute
divides us by the year
I see it in your favorite flower
hear it in your name
feel it in my throat
it comes for us all
but it is the death of others that we
feel
Formal challenge is write a nonet
This poetic form requires …
Write a nine-line poem now
Line one, nine syllables
Decrease one each line
Until only
One word is
Left to
Write
Time passing
day by day
flowers bud and blossom
tree leaves flourish
in red, yellow or green.
Nature at its best
being its best.
Out the yawning window
50 shades of roofs
Bluebird houses
Clouds and birdsong
Sherry my neighbor called to
tell me the mail box was open
the mail, wet from last night’s
rain
At 4 a.m. we had hail
the pling pling against the
windows woke the puppy
I was silently chanting
don’t need to go out
don’t need to go out
It worked
I dreamt we were visiting
a few faceless others and
when I returned from another
room my purse that I had placed
on the back of a sofa was
missing
Text Prompt
Write a poem where death is personified in some way.
Or
Watch this clip from Swan Lake, then write a poem. It can be a direct or indirect response.
Image Prompt
The road to success is filled with hardships and difficulties
It trips you up and tests your abilities
It likes to see you give up and stop trying
It likes to see you anxious and crying
It takes joy in seeing you fail
It’s a difficult path that you have to scale
It’s a windy road filled with many bends and twists and stones
It’s a road that you walk on your own
You have to find the strength and power
Work hard at every available hour
You have to stand when you fall
And give it your all
Because the journey is always going to be rough
You’ll have to prove that you can persevere, that you tough
And fight through all the complications they throw at you
Because there’s a great reward once you make it through