
Senryu A simple flower Brings joy to many people So give one today Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Senryu A simple flower Brings joy to many people So give one today Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Haiku A wilting flower Takes its last breath in this life And returns to earth Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
I am wild and not like you I am not elusive or rare but omnipresent To be found everywhere you look, if only you would really see me In the grass and between the cracks in the pathway of your life Overlooked and annoying I grow where no one expects me to flourish, because I can Pretty and yellow, like the sun Strong and resilient Multiplying in numbers and sometimes overwhelming My appearance not always welcome Yet, when noticed I am pleasing to the eye for my brightness but do not always belong in another’s vision of beauty If left alone, my life cycle would ultimately give pleasure in its transformation To be plucked and played with Soft lips gently blowing on my lightness Sending me in a million directions Giving joy with my ability to fly and granting wishes to those who would ask, allowing me to entertain for just brief moments before being born again and try once more for happiness Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Bjorn is hosting D'Verse poets and has prompted us with Conceit poetry. Conceit being a grand metaphor for life. An elaborate, improbable comparison between two very unlike things to create an imaginative connection between them.
Haiku Flower stems bending towards the sun for their life and wishing for rain Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Wind in the Sierras blowing tumbleweed across barren, dry landscape Gone are the heady moments from the previous night with men all named John Insidious pleasures and steamy dalliances A day in the life of a girl known as Desert Rose Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Prompts Stream of Consciousness - The last photo you took - mine is one of my plants, The Desert Rose which is blooming right now. It’s name inspired my poem. RDP - Tumble FOWC - Insidious Word of the Day - Dalliance
Haiku Lone pretty flower Finds its way through the concrete Valiant and strong Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Haiku
As she lays in wait
Beautiful and seductive
Venus traps the fly
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Written in response to MLMM's Heeding Haiku
with Chèvrefeuille who prompted us with a flower