Someone on the SCA East Kingdom FaceBook page put up a challenge for Poetry Month. Every day she posted a word as a prompt for a poem. I was a little overwhelmed by the idea of writing a poem everyday for a month until it was suggested that a Haiku would fulfill the challenge nicely. So here are my thirty (or so...I might have written more than one poem for a few of the prompts) little haiku with their prompt words as titles:
LAUGHTER
Within silence joy
The smile is liquid music
Quiet laughter bright
COURAGE
Armies seek the weak
Castle safe from sharpened swords
Mockingbird holds fast
RAIN
Crystalline clear soft
Silken cloth dripping lightly
Covers garden green
FAMILY
Take my hand my dear
Waltz to the music of time
Together always
MOUNTAIN
Gray arms stretch a yawn
Mist sighs sleepily through trees
As night blankets stone
COMPANION
Friendship leaves us not
Wind stills yet touches us still
Hidden bulb yet blooms
SPRING
Walk the verdant woods
vines twined in mazes unsolved
Hearts echo birds’ song
OCEAN
Follow the path home
Sword in hand needle in hand
There are many ways
HONOR
Words are soft music
Action’s song fills empty halls
Sing honor’s great hymn
SWORD
Standing tall with pride
A shield to all in great need
A knight needs no sword
JOURNEY
No path stays the same
Rain and sun all come in time
Continue onward
FLOWERS
Gold coins in green fields
Rubies sprinkled in meadows
Spring’s treasure to find
SERVICE
Sun bright in the sky
Giving warmth all below
Needs naught in return
Worth more than diamonds
The steady work of strong hands
Service builds the Dream
WIND
The song of the air
Leaves sing loud in harmony
Old trees join the dance
GRATITUDE
Cherry blossoms smile
Buzzing bees cuddle the blooms
A sweet grace given
SHARP
Blushing petals soft
Defends herself with sharp steel
Beware beauty’s thorns
TREE
April snow falls soft
As plum blossoms flutter down
Petals and flakes mix
Generations live
Under oak’s storm strong branches
From acorn a rock
CLOUD
Imagination
Creates stories in the sky
Clouds write in the wind
Clouds paint in the wind
Create stories in the sky
Ever changing worlds
SUNSHINE
Morning’s golden hand
Draws back the blanket of night
Wakes the sleeping world
BEAUTY
Stones strewn on the path
Plain wren flitting through branches
All is beautiful
FRIENDSHIP
Rains sweep fallow fields
Shivering in lonely huts
You are my warm fire
HOPE
Mired in the darkness
Curled and stretching toward life
Cracked shell brings hope’s light
LEARNING
The wood duck’s first step
Is a far fall from the nest
Still they learn to fly
HUMILITY
Who can understand
Bellowing voices ringing
Soft song carries far
NATURE
Great cathedrals rise
Chanting hymns of bees and birds
Praying with green leaves
MOON
Hold not tight to her
As she waxes in glory
For her wane light fades
CHALLENGE
Words are wily things
Slithering from their proper
Place, making art hard
FEALTY
My heart holds all oaths
Greedily keeping them close
Gold never to fade
JOY
Dawn’s curtain opens
And the orchestra of birds
Plays a symphony
