Clouds float weightless
Thermals supporting their mass
Until they downpour
Blossom only blooms
Exactly when called to come
As insects arrive
Birds construct nests
Without pregnancy tests
Perfect baby beds
Cats wonder away
Alone with only their thoughts
Ready to leave
Nature listens
As we seem deaf, dumb and blind
To the world around
Amongst all beauties
Swallowtail chooses sun
Infinite moment
Xxxx
Inspired by "butterfly" by Chiyo-Ni provided at carpe diem.
Trusting the doctors
Trusting the pharmacist
Trusting the drugs
Trusting in rest
But most of all trusting God to heal
Fresh water
Cold and clean
Out of the tap
Whenever we need
We don't know how lucky
Our lives really are
When we know when we're thirsty
Refreshment won't be far
God says:
When you're lost follow me
When you're scared follow me
When you're unsure follow me
I'm following
Xxxxx
I know it's not exactly a photo but being stuck in bed didn't present anything that fitted the bill so I drew instead.
Marriage is a contract
Between two consenting adults
Joined together in law
For the benefit of their security
Marriage is love
Given unconditionally
Daily for eternity to a spouse
Asking nothing in return
Marriage is hope
Despite painful experiences before
That two people will always
Look after each other
Marriage is ....
Logically sensible
Illogically thrilling
Emotionally rewarding
Xxxx
Linked up at Poetry Jam who challenged us to write something logical, illogical or emotional; this poem attempts to use all three, each taking a different stanza.
Dear prime minister
I like your plan of the big society
But I think it breaks down, in reality
So many volunteers around the country
Not really valued by our economy
I work for free, I'm called to that
There's no doubt at all, it's a "real job"
But without a pay cheque and tax return
My pension by your system is robbed
Hear our plight, mine and many others
We don't take from you, we only give
We ask little, just one thing only
To be able, in our old age, to live
Let us do our work, helping others
Giving our time, saving you money
We want no reward, nothing at all
Just being valued, is that really funny?
Yours sincerely
Emma
Xxxxxx
Real toads challenged us to write an open letter in poetry, this is one of several I've written today.
What is mathematics
Why the study and strife
It's the science of patterns
Finding why there's beauty in life
Take fractals for instance
Where nature repeats
Or waves of sound and light
Which help us communicate
Look around you
And you'll see
Endless examples
Of symmetry
Maths is all about patterns
Even in the numbers themselves
Look at the nine times table
And embrace them yourself
Xxxxx
Inspired by my love of maths and my desire that no child should ever fear it. Linked up at Poets United.
The images are fractals in ferns, light waves, slinky springs and the fabulous nine times table.
On the street
At the skating rink
Strangers
Strangers
Friends you've not met yet
Could be more
Could be more
In your life than you expect
One day
One day
Stranger becomes friend
Front and centre
Xxxx
Inspired by and linked up at Carpe Diem.
On days like today
When I'm feeling pretty yuck
I think of good stuff
Here are five things
Which are great in my world
Five, perfect to share
First is family
Love, support and care
Completely priceless
Second are friends
The sort who're always there
Don't need invites
Third are pet cats
Whether for cuddles galore
Or joy filled play
Fourth is NHS
A doctor always on call
We don't know our luck
Fifth is God
Always holding my hand
And sending love
These are my five
I'd love to know about yours
Please do tell below
Xxxxx
Linked up at RevGalBlogPals Friday Five.
I'm off, making tracks
Into the frozen wasteland
Hoping to find me
Xxxxx
Inspired by and linked up at bifocal univision.
Green and slimy
Creepy, crawly, leaf eater
Munching every day
Munching every day
Gaining strength, growing big
Ready to change
Ready to change
Weaving my incubator
Curled up inside
Curled up inside
The same yet so different
About to emerge
About to emerge
Spread my wings wide, fly away
Into my new life
Xxxxx
Linked up at carpe diem.
I used to have
The Sunday night feeling
You know the one?
That awful sinking
But for ten years now
I've been free of it
I go to bed Sunday
Monday morning excited
I don't dread my work
I love what I do
So now every Monday
Is a chance anew
If you don't like
What you do all week
Why not make a change
Do what you seek
Xxxxxx
Inspired by and linked up at one single impression.
Pure white
Floats in sky of black
Watches snow
Xxx
Cratered surface
Silently orbiting our world
Powering our tides
Xxxxx
Inspired by the photo and subject at carpe diem where this is also linked up.
Wings of silk
Carry across continents
Strength untold
Xxx
Linked up at Sunday scribblings where the prompt monarch was provided, I immediately thought of this beautiful creature.
Sometimes when I'm alone
I dance around our home
Sometimes when I'm alone
I dream about places to roam
Sometimes when I'm alone
I sing at the top of my voice
Sometimes when I'm alone
I read till lost somewhere else
Sometimes when I'm alone
I curl up in a ball
Sometimes when I'm alone
I feel far too small
Sometimes when I'm alone
I ponder how and why
Sometimes when I'm alone
I cry
Xxxxx
Linked up at carry on Tuesday
You saw my form
But now you see my drawers
You see inside me
Inside my soul
My fears, hopes and dreams
Look and you'll see
But please take care
Don't open them too wide
When you look inside
Inside my drawers
Are all my flaws and all
I need to hide
Only if I trust
Will I open them wide enough
For you to see, me
Xxxxxx
Inspired by Venus de Milo with Drawers by Salvador Dali in 1936. Linked up at The Mag.
By way of background - Dali was passionate about Freud's work and used work with drawers to articulate the idea of our hidden lives which can bee opened up through therapy.
Osee, Joel, Amos and Micheas
Just four of the lesser known prophets
Through prayerful discipline, tears and patience
They shared God's messages caught in sublime moments
Aggeus, Zacharias and Malachia too
Were another three prophets that people knew
They weren't heroic, they couldn't fly
But their pieces of the future raised them high
Many other people have tried the same
Gazing at the sky and trying to steal their game
But imposters' limits are quickly understood
And the truly enlightened are retained as they should
Xxxxx
Linked up at the Sunday whirl incorporating the words in the picture.
Buds of bright yellow
Herald the ever brightening
Spring sun in the sky
Xx
Evocative scent
Brighter even than itself
Sign that spring's coming
Xx
Oriental bush
Brightens dull European
Early spring gardens
Xxxxx
Linked up at carpe diem.
Look straight at me
I'm an optical illusion
Eyes don't deceive you
Xxx
You think you see
What you've always seen
But you don't
Xxx
Light falls from sky
Floating effortlessly
Water shimmers
Xxxxx
Linked up at haiku heights
The optical illusion comes from http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/kagero3e.html
When you're sick you're welcome in my bed
To be honest I like to know you're still healthy
But when you're better it's back to your own you go
Because without you around I sleep like a baby
It's the wiggling and squirming
The tossing and turning
The throwing your arms out
That disrupt my sleep
Despite being tiny
Within half an hour
You've got most of the bed
And I'm half on the floor
So, yes of course when you're poorly
You can come and get comfort
But don't out stay your welcome
It's great to sleep separate
Xxxxx
Linked up at Jenny's Saturday centus.
I drown in the depths of your eyes
Relaxing against your fur so soft
Lost in dreams of your gentle embrace
Your eyelashes stir the breeze
As palm fronds at an oasis
Your legs pace your stall
Yet you barely look my way at all
I long for a smile to cross your lips
For a snort of love to spark the air
Yet all you do is stare
I am across the way, every day
Will you ever see me, as me
And love me back
I wait each day, I wait to see
Xxxxx
Kerry at real toads challenged us to write a sonnet and I based this on two llama at a farm we went to this week, you should have seen the way the white one looked at this gorgeous black beauty.
People see my smile and know
Occasionally I'm not too great but just
So you know
I'm determined to make it
Through no matter what
I do
Very often a smile
Is all I manage and
That's enough for those that
Yell along with me.
Xxxx
Am acrostic poem for Positivity inspired by Dealing with Depression.
A prayer for stillness
Where your shadow captures your attention
And you see yourself anew
Just as God loves you
Where does your food come from?
What life has it had?
Has it been happy?
Running about as a lad?
These lambs are all playing
Bothering their mum
No doubt about it
Their lives are great fun
I'd rather my lamb
Had a happier time
Than cooped up inside
Is your choice like mine?
One of the risks
Of working with kids is catching
The dreaded nits
Crawling about
Making you scream and shout
The dreaded nits
Weekly we check
Your head, scalp, ears and neck
The dreaded nits
It won't get us down
There's worse things to make us frown
Than .... the dreaded nits
Nervous to tell people
Nervous that if I don't
They won't really get what
Is going on in my boat
Nervous of their reaction
Patronisingly upbeat
Which might be better
Than a pitying streak
Nervous of being shut out
By all the cool kids
Nervous of being shut up
Put in a box with a lid
Nervous of everything
Including myself
Nervous gets me nowhere
So I try to breath through
Sit still little man
And smile nicely
Try to look happy
What a nice family
It's only a camera
It won't do you any harm
A minute without moving
Captures you in all your charm
I know this is strange
You don't know what's going on
But the result will be worth it
For generations going on
Xxxxx
Inspired by and linked up at sepia Saturday.
Building a castle
Barricades protect feelings
Fortress of the mind
Xxx
Medieval fortress
Everyone safe inside
Strangers can stay out
Xxxxx
Linked up at carpe diem.
We're the atacama fur seals
Desert dwellers by the sea
Don't like to be disturbed much
Bother us and we get moody
We often swim together
But the thing that we like best
Is sitting on the desert shore
And lazing with the rest
We never venture inland
There's no water there for us
But don't deny we're desert dwellers
Then we'll really make a fuss
Sometimes wayward penguins
Dare to invade our home
Then they see our anger
And find somewhere else to roam
There are of course other animals
Dwelling in the atacama sand
But they're nothing compared to us
We hope that you'll understand
Xxxxx
Linked up at real toads transforming Friday about deserts.
To keep trying
To look up when falling
To keep smiling
Xxx
To not give up
Even when it seems completely
Impossible
Xxx
Not always easy
May take lots of hard work
Worth it, I hope
Xxx
Letting them try
Watching them fall over
Not showing panic
Xxx
Family brewery
Ales to be drunk by the pint
Frothy white head
Xxxxxx
These haiku are all on the theme of courage and linked up at carpe diem. Most of them relate to the photo.
Beware what you choose
When you want to wear stripes
They might not be kind
Might make you look wide
Or be expertly slimming
You might look funny
Make sure you're happy
Like a zebra on the plain
Pick stripes not shame
Before you decide
Turn around, side to side
Pick them carefully
As for the zebra
They carry all of their stripes
Elegantly
Fibonacci
Fabulous mathematician
Praiser of patterns
Sequence spotter, analyser
and establisher
Saw the world as it was
designed in perfection
And drew the connection
in all its perfection
all the mathematical perfection
Thanks oh Fibonacci
for seeing what we didn't
showing the purpose
of wonderful mathematics
and drawing attention
to wonders of creation
Xxxxxx
Linked up at Poets United where we were challenged to write a Fibonacci poem.
Image of Fibonacci pattern in sunflowers as discussed in this academic paper on Fibonacci.
It's the chill out zone
Not often neat, but completes
The heart of our home
Xxxxxx
Linked up at NaHaiWriMo
Six inches tall
But perfectly formed
Wattle and daub frame
Lined with willow board
Two fireplaces within
Inglenook of course
And a winding staircase
Leads to the upper floor
Everything designed
Perfectly for toad
So mind you don't step on it
As you wander the forest road
Xxxxxx
Buy your own toad house at grand manner
Awaiting letter
I know not what it holds
Anticipation
In other words:
Friend wrote a letter
Told me it was on the way
I'm still waiting here
Facebook reminds me
That it's written and sent
But it's not here
When will it arrive?
And what will it say to me?
Desperate to know.
What does it taste like?
I wish I knew
The taste of success
Is delectable to chew
Is it sweet?
Like French patisserie?
No, it's so much better
More like fresh cherry
So it lingers on the tongue
Something to enjoy
Yes, it's absolutely wonderful
Like a child's favourite toy
I hope one day to know
The sweet taste of success
Keep trying and you will
It's about just doing your best
Xxxxxxx
Linked up at 100 word challenge for grown ups.
