Haiku
A wilting flower
takes its last breath in this life
and returns to earth
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Daily Haiku – Thu. September 5, 2019
Category: Blog
The Great Divide
The Great Divide
The schism between us
too divisive to scale
What was once fertile land
now a ravine with unnavigable
waters running through a vale
How unlikely could this be?
No warning signs given
But you the instigator
kept it close to your chest
It was as if you were driven
You take no prisoners
The war has been waged
Isolate and destroy
Fight to the death
Your furor enraged
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Word Prompts
Unlikely - WotD
Schism - RDP
Could - Daily Addictions
Instigate - FOWC
Image by David Mark from Pixabay
One Liner Wednesday
I jokingly said the other day that if I ate any more spinach I would start to look like Popeye. Well wouldn’t you know it, my favorite cartoonist, Gary Larson featured Popeye in one of his Far Side funnies!
Enjoy your Wednesday!
In response to Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday
Daily Haiku – Wed. September 4, 2019
Haiku
So quickly times change
What was once very precious
Has now turned to dust
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Wise Up
Wise Up
When something isn’t right
it is a shoe that blisters the heel
So why do you put up with that
when you don’t like the way it feels?
If it makes you sad
and frightened to speak
Then it is wrong
and you are being weak
Doing the same thing
over and again
expecting a different result
Defines insanity - Amen!
When did you start to do stupid?
What have you become?
A shadow of you former self
Who are you hiding from?
Wise up girl
There is something amiss
Dump that loser
You are better than this
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Mish is hosting D'Verse Poets tonight and
has prompted us with beautiful art by Beverly Dyer
I chose her painting of the Owl as it is a symbol of wisdom.
Sometimes we forget how wise we are, particularly
when we lose sight of ourselves.
Daily Haiku – Tue. Sep 3, 2019
Haiku
One early morning
Sit out in the dawn’s first light
And accept the gift
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Labour – Haibun Monday
If anything is worth it then we must work at it, or so I was taught. Work hard and you will live well. To love you must also work hard and sometimes it does not always bear fruit. How many of us have devoted months and years into failed relationships and marriage? We bend and twist ourselves inside out to conform to other’s desires and wishes only to realize that it was all for nothing.
This week’s prompt from D’Verse Poets asked us to include the the word Labour as it is Labour Day here in the US. My first thought was Shakespeare’s comedy, Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Haiku
We work to live but
we live to love and question
when Love’s Labour’s Lost
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Daily Haiku – Mon. Sep 2, 2019
Senryu
Lose yourself in fun
And laugh until your sides ache
So good for your soul
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Vista
Vista
Clicking of hungry birds
tumbling in the frozen air
A stream of ice reflecting
the pink sky of daybreak
as sun lights earth in a flare
A breathtaking vista
the beholder enraptured
with serenity of the moment
Pausing to accept the gift
the eyes had captured
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Sue Vincent's Weekly Write/Photo Challenge
Frozen
Daily Haiku – Sun. Sep 1, 2019
Senryu
Let go of hatred
It will eat you from inside
And change who you are
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©