Tag Archives: Poem

Lemon Poem⤴

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350/365 Lemon Meyer
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Today’s TDC says

Write a three line poem about lemons without using the following words: lemon, yellow, round, fruit, citrus, tart, juicy, peel, and sour.

I wrote a haiku:

Sunlight on a branch
Zesty tingles on the tongue
Summer in a glass

RIP Wendell Berry⤴

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Berry Heron poem
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Today’s TDC says:

Poet and environmentalist Wendell Berry has died at age 92 Make some art in his memory – maybe illustrate one of his poems or write one inspired by his words.

I love The Peace of Wild Things, so I looked through my Flickr albums and found a photo of a heron, taken last year – probably at Mugdock.

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Virus poem⤴

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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Virus
Virus flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC  says:

Write a poem on a nice virus, and add some images.

Bonus points if you make it go viral

Here’s mine:

VIRUS

Viciously lurking,
Invisible till it strikes,
Rapidly spreading,
Unwelcome everywhere,
Sneakily multiplying.

Geranium Haibun⤴

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July weather is unpredictable, from sweltering heatwaves to torrential rain. I take my chances where I can and step outside to enjoy my garden. At the moment my geraniums are glorious – shaded from the worst of the heat by the forsythia above, spreading out across the garden. Today they are shining in the sun.

On a sunny day
Flowwers turn their faces up
Basking in the light

189/365 Geraniums
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Acrostic⤴

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Cat on a lap
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Loudly shouting for food and treats
Always in the way during Zoom meetings
Creating havoc when the bathroom door is closed
Eyes looking daggers when I stroke the other cat
Yet cuddly and affectionate when she gets her own way

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Valentine Poem⤴

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Pizza
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Tomatoes are red
Rocket is green
This lovely pizza
Is fit for a queen

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Olive pizza
Olive pizza flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Tomatoes are red
Olives are green
Another great pizza
Deserves to be seen

Ode to Father Time⤴

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Today’s Daily Create is to write an ode to Father Time

O silent keeper of all things,
You move unseen through shadows cast,
With footsteps soft, yet never still.
The stars align, the tides obey,
All yield to you—relentless, vast.

Your hands are weathered, old as stone,
Yet you are ageless, ever new.
You mend, you break, you heal, you mar,
A sculptor’s chisel, carving through,
Unveiling lives in cycles far.

A child’s first cry, an elder’s sigh,
The bloom of youth, the winter’s breath—
You’re there, a witness to our change,
A fleeting gift, a final debt,
Each heartbeat passing in your range.

Unseen you turn the seasons’ wheel,
And all our clocks are but your play.
What power lies in your domain,
For all we are, and all we’ll be,
Is woven in your endless skein.

And though we chase, and though we flee,
There is no place to hide, to wait,
For when you call, we go as one—
Forever caught within your fate,
Eternal father of the sun.

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