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Haiku Seahorses gallop across waves of hope to their salty home Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Daily Haiku – Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Tag: hope
Daily Haiku – Sunday, July 4, 2021
Senryu Woven thoughts of hope Fabricate expectations but doomed to perish Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
A Gift – Quadrille
A Gift
Silver lined clouds bringing hope after a heavy rain storm A semi circle of rainbow smudged against the grey expanse that we might stare in amazement Late afternoon rain showers causing a mild inconvenience but gifting us with the magical memories of Nature’s wonders Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Mish is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse Poets and has prompted us with the word “ Smudge” A quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words excluding the title
Insight – A Palinode
Part 1 - Misunderstood (Prior Poem) Your eyes no longer hide the truth They have become the lens to your dark soul The bitterness written between the lines of your face Chiseled deep into the crevices where it now resides Dragging the once curve of a smile into a permanent scowl The magnitude of your suffering living on display for all to see Your strange, misunderstood past responsible for a demeanor that pushes friendship away Making it impossible for anyone to come close so they might know more of your story and pain
Part 2 - Insight What a difference a day can make The light in your eyes flickers ever so slightly A weight carried heavily on your weary shoulders is now a little lighter Shadows of a smile can be seen more often as hope returns to your closed heart Opening it wider to receive the good blessings being showered on you once more Friends never left you Remaining on the periphery of your life for when you needed them most Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Grace is hosting Meet at the Bar at D'Verse Poets tonight and has prompted us with a Palinode. A palinode or palinody is an ode or song that retracts or recants a view or sentiment to what the poet wrote in a previous poem. The writing challenge is to write a palinode. This can be in relation to a poem you have written before (please link or include prior poem), or as part of poem e.g. Palinode by Monica Youn. Image by Hier und jetzt endet leider meine Reise auf Pixabay 😢 from Pixabay
Case Closed
Case Closed
You carry melancholy in a suitcase full of hope It is a familiar travel companion Hope may find joy but ultimately it leaves you Knowing deep in your soul pessimism rules In abandoned dreams from long ago is where you find yourself You surrendered everything for love and it played on your vulnerability for happiness The suitcase remains closed like your heart Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Laura Bloomsbury is hosting D'Verse Poets tonight and has been thinking about endings. She has prompted us to use one of the following lines to write a poem without first reading the work it was taken from. I chose the last quote: “You fling it open for the first time/ but I’m gone M Kahf ~ Wall Wall BY MOHJA KAHF Your heart is a wall on which I knocked looking for a door, a latch a windowsill, a flowerpot Everything I brought to the wall dried up and blew away for lack of answer: tulip bulbs, my worry for you, some children Sometimes I pounded it with my fists smashed my forehead on it blamed myself for not having the passcode hated myself hated hating myself—started over willed patience, got advice cried in a heap against its brick without getting a stir so many night-after-nights It’s a wall. There is no way in. Now that I’ve made the choice to leave your heart suddenly has a gate You fling it open for the first time but I’m gone Prompts “As if we could hear music inside the words” Gail Newman ~ Trust “Airless and unloved, in the dank basement of the mind” L. Igloria ~ A Reparation “Call me to lie down in fragrance.” D. Margoshes ~ Season of Lilac “So close that your sea rises with my heat” C.Perez ~ Love in a Time of Climate Change “The clear vowels rise like balloons” S.Plath ~ Morning Song “You fling it open for the first time/ but I’m gone M Kahf ~ Wall Image by ArtTower from Pixabay
Mosaic Culture
Mosaic Culture
My perfect world is a mosaic Where each piece connects the other in beauty There are shades of earth Deep brown and pitch black to clay and sandy soil Sky connecting clouds of white crimson, rosy pink and graphite Sometimes golden and sun-kissed Trees with outstretched arms In greens, reds and yellows Oceans holding everything in place With blue-green reflections of its inhabitants A rainbow of ebony, mahogany, ginger and cinnamon with alabaster and ivory delightfully blended in hues of cafe au lait and mocha Eyes of sapphire and cognac pewter, graphite and terra-cotta Sensual colors of eyes and skin Bleeding the same color red and crying identical crystal tears Wishing to live in harmony with each other as it should be Copyright © 2020 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Sarah is hosting D'Verse Poets tonight and she has prompted us to share a poem that we have recently read and use it to inspire us to write one. One of my favorite poets is Langston Hughes. I did not grow up with his poetry but I have come to love it. I was inspired by his poem Harlem Sweeties where his use of descriptive color is so beautiful and mesmerizing to read. It captured me immediately. Image by Holger Schué from Pixabay
The Eyes Have It
The Eyes Have It
Your face attractive with faint lines of wear and character but your eyes are spellbinding Magnetizing Drawing me into their deep limpid pools of azure I surrender willingly to your hypnotic gaze for there I might find the answers to my own destiny Where will you take me? Will I stay long or will I just drown in your watery lagoon? Copyright © 2020 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Mish is hosting D'Verse Poets tonight and has prompted us with "Eyes"
Now is the Time
Now is the Time
One more blue-black bruise on society One too many The beast has been unleashed Voices heard Strength in numbers taking to the streets Waking the silent Unmasking the blind A united voice heard by deaf ears Heads previously buried in the sand resurrected A time of change Power in the hands of the peaceful oppressed The dark days are numbered One man’s breath choked from his body Yet his words I can’t breathe I can’t breathe I can’t breathe will live in infamy and be carried on wings of soaring birds His voice stolen but we speak for him, for all Now is the time Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing © In response to Sue Vincent's Weekly Write/Photo #Blacklivesmatter
Daily Haiku – Sat. Jun 6, 2020
Haiku From behind the clouds A new dawn and a new day Giving hope to all Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Smile
Smile
Waking to his smile A cherished gift The frown no longer there lifting her challenged spirits Giving hope the malaise has gone forever Whatever ailed his heart and hardened it with ice Had robbed his face of its charm The twisted agony of pronounced pain consuming his body and mind Filling it with anger and despair Leaving a legacy of suffering Shutting out the one who loved him most and lived his trauma But now, just for a while She takes that smile and forgets all else A contagious reaction of joy and hope that will carry her on a cloud until it doesn’t Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing © Mish is hosting D'Verse Poets Open Link Night Word Prompts Challenge - Word of the Day Pronounced - RDP Legacy - FOWC Image by ambroo from Pixabay