Friday, April 30, 2021

Poetry Month 2021

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 

Sand’s skin spreads thin stars
Salt’s brine crackles on the wind 
Water’s heart beats strong
 
PROWESS

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 

 

 


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