24 Monday Jul 2017
Posted in African Women Writers, al li, Cherita, Larry Kimmel, Micropoetry, Poetry
The Cherita was created by al li. I’ve fallen in love with this lovely poetry form. And for each working day I shall endeavour to post a cherita a day on my blog. 🙂
credits: http://www.thecherita.com/
Silence
they say silence is golden
but the silence Â
after the gunfire
is red
not even the flood
can wipe away the gore
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16 Friday Dec 2016
Posted in African Women Writers, Challenges, Events, Haiku, Haiku My Heart, Micropoetry, Poetry
13 Friday Feb 2015
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Poetry, Romance, Tan Renga
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Done for Carpe Diem. We are to complete Suzanne’s haiku below with our own lines of 7-7 syllables each.
(Suzanne’s)
red poppies of Troy
the blood of the fallen
bright on the grassÂ
Mine
mixed with the tears of Helen
fitting dish served by the gods
Tan Renga
red poppies of Troy
the blood of the fallen
bright on the grass
mixed with Helen’s golden tears
fitting dish served to Paris
12 Thursday Feb 2015
Posted in Carpe Diem, Haiku, Poetry
Done for Carpe Diem.Â
Poppies
dewy petals
dancing on the hillside
poppy party
2
shades of scarlet
weeping on the battlefield
poppy funeral
Landscape with Poppies – Claude Monet (1873)
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18 Thursday Dec 2014
Posted in Challenges, Poetry, Tan Renga
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The photo is by kind permission of Gilly. I’ve gone dark today. Is it any wonder? 🙂 This lovely photo took me to Pakistan.
Grapes of Wrath
And there were the heads
wantonly strewn to draw gasps
tin gods’ grapes of wrath
innocence nipped at the hem
even the clouds bow in shame
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14 Thursday Aug 2014
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atrocities, carnage, devil, gods, war
The photo is by kind permission of Gilly. Gilly aptly titled her post Petals of Loss. Please step over to read her poignant poem. 🙂 My heart is heavy within me this week for all the carnage going on in parts if not all of the world.
Gods of War
blood red, crimson red
rivulets in wanton spree
feeding gods of war
gods deaf to ululationsÂ
 spawned from unholy darkness
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(14/08/14)
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11 Monday Aug 2014
Posted in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
Done for Haiku Horizons. Today, my haiku is about the pain I’m having in my heart, a physical one as I saw videos of the horrors going on in Iraq. Please if you have the time, visit Lotenna Blog. Kindly note that the pictures are disturbing, to say the least.
cutting, lingering
ache sits on my heart, I bleed.
oh ISIS, what next!
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13 Tuesday May 2014
Posted in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
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dark, raven, scavengers, war
 Carpe Diem Prompt Raven. My haiku today is a bit dark. But realistic I dare say. 🙂
Raven
darkness sheaths the skies
flapping wings create death dance
we scavenge the spoils
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Done for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie – Heeding Haiku with HA
Peace
enjoying
the breeze with a book
that’s my peace
2
kids’ laughter
ringing, instead of
deadly drones
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03 Thursday Oct 2013
Still experimenting with Nonets. Please enjoy.
Scourge
ever so smugly you take your share
of what is sacrilege to us
and of pride to my bedmate
taboo, my blood boils hot
spilled on fecund land
of brazen lust
and my blight
that is
you
I
tremble
with the fear
that makes me mute
hellish mischief gloat
in your hashish-glazed eyes
I glimpse a bit of your soul
black soil caked with blood of thousands
scourge of our land, plunder! let me die!
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