Senryu
Why did you do this?
You make it impossible
for me to love you
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Daily Haiku – Sat. November 16, 2019
He Says, She Says
He Says, She Says
Swollen eyes
and mascara streaks
I’m all cried out
Feeling I haven’t
slept in weeks
Fighting it
but justifying it
Trying to make sense
Why, oh why can’t
I just quit?
Incompetent in love
Not accepting reality
Questioning my judgement
Imprudent actions
Tripping staggeringly
Stubborn and hard-headed
Was that me or you?
It only takes one
to cave and then
we can make it through
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Word Prompts:
Incompetent - RDP
(Im)Prudent - FOWC
Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay
Daily Haiku – Fri. November 15, 2019
Haiku
Leaves fluttering down
Making an autumn carpet
Silent are footseps
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Morning
Morning
The sounds of skylarks and curlews
break the stillness of the morning
The sensory architect already at work
A fading moon compromises
giving way to the sun dawning
Mist suspended over water
waiting for warmth to dissipate
The rocks are bathed clean
Gulls squawking in salty air
A traveling east wind invigorates
On a white capped speckled sea
Fisher boats already far from view
Night time now held to ransom
for the day is center stage
adorned in its morning hue
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Prompts:
Lillian is hosting Open Link Night
at D'Verse Poets Pub
Word Prompts:
Ransom - WOTD
Architect - RDP
Image by Mark Frost from Pixabay
Daily Haiku – Thu. November 14, 2019
Haiku
Snowflakes melting
Surrendering to the sun
Like teardrops on cheeks
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
One Liner Wednesday
Good Wednesday morning to you all. This photo and caption just says it all. It was a laugh out loud moment!
Enjoy your day and keep smiling.
In response to Linda G Hill’s One Liner Wednesday
Daily Haiku – Wed. November 13, 2019
Senryu
I am still shaking
Unable to stabilize
After your bombshell
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Survival
Survival
Survival is an instinct
Born of necessity
Protected
at all costs
as you would a child
and like your spirit
it can never be taken
from you
It is all you have when
times are dire
Your resourcefulness
when you are without
Your resilience
when you are knocked down
It lives and breathes
within you
It is always present
yet hangs in your shadows
until you call upon it
and give it life
Your will to survive
paramount
Your kiss of life
Your oxygen
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Gospel Isosceles is hosting D'Verse Poets
and has prompted us with the Birth/Born
Image by LoggaWiggler from Pixabay
Forgiveness
Forgiveness
Would you rather be right
than happy?
What was so utterly terrible,
preferring to live in a lonely world
separated from the one
who truly loves you?
In this vast universe
you found the diamond
in the rough
That most precious treasure
to value and keep forever
Someone to rely on
To love and cherish
and now you risk it all
Stop chewing on the
bone of contention
Come down from that lonely
mountain of self-righteousness
where no one lives in harmony
Forgiveness will release you
from the chains of heartache
Be free to love and be loved
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Word Prompts
Utterly - WotD
Vast - RDP
Rely - FOWC
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Daily Haiku – Tue. November 12, 2019
Senryu
Tears well in my eyes
When I think of what we had
Now gone forever
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©