Senryu Eyes closed from the sun Listening to Nature’s sounds Gentle lullaby Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Daily Haiku – Monday January 9, 2023
Tag: nature
Daily Haiku – Wed. December 14, 2022
Haiku Our senses are filled In every way, each day Patterns of nature Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
When Time Stands Still
When Time Stands Still
It is still early as the sun has barely broken the dawn
Sky, a pale yellow-grey and dew clings tightly to the grass
The early bird yet to waken and give us his morning song
A blanket of silence comforting and welcome
Precious solitude invaluable before facing the day
It is in these moments that time stands still
I am gifted with peace and I give thanks
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Prompts
RDP - Thanks
Stream of Consciousness - Morning
Earthweal - Open Link Weekend
Trading Places
Trading Places
A lemon sherbet sky Brought its chill to the evening The sun, released from its obligations of the day, Slipped quickly from sight As twilight consumed Trees shivered in Autumn winds Sending their loose leaves scattering Laying a carpet of burnt sienna on the cold ground Darkness came and the earth became silent A time to reflect on the beauty daylight brings And allow the night to put it to rest The glow of a nightlight moon comforts as peace comes Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Prompts Light - RDP Open Link Weekend - Earthweal
Hibernation
Hibernation
The smoky grey sky remained long after the storm blew away remnants of an Indian Summer Clouds hung heavy and oppressive in the late afternoon Lingering joy of sunshine and warmth already faded into memories A page turns and a new chapter begins I am not ready, I am never ready to let go of my season of birth It invigorates me, it feeds me I draw strength from its strength I grow and thrive like grapes on the vine and wheat in the fields Now it’s time to be plucked and harvested My season is celebrated for its bounty With thanks duly given but then my world becomes dormant leaving me to cover my head and hibernate Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Lillian is hosting Open Link Night at D'Verse
Daily Haiku – Saturday September 17, 2022
Senryu Closeness to nature Can soothe my broken spirit and heal open wounds Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Walk in the Park – Poem of the Month – September 2022
Walk in the Park
I walked that I might breathe Each inhalation pushing the oxygen Up to my brain until my head cleared and normalcy returned Every step taking me further away from the source of my discontent I absorbed the surroundings Following the bend in the river A gentle susurrus shook The weeping willow blossoms Sunlight disappeared beyond the treeline as dusk staked its claim on the day From the corner of my eye a scintilla of light flashed to the left, then the right Fireflies shining in the twilight Glowing on and off Teasing the viewer tempted to catch them It was then I knew I had found my querencia My safe place of peace Where my equilibrium could return Stopping to wonder at the light show I rested a while, thankful for the sojourn Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Mish is hosting Tuesday Poetics at D’Verse and has prompted us with unusual words that have been finding their way into our everyday language. We are to use three of her suggestions in our poem. I chose Susurrus, Scintilla and Querencia. You will find their meanings on the D’Verse link along with the others available.
Good Morning – A Quadrille
Good Morning
Sleep slinked away like a thief in the night In the wee hours of the morning countless sheep filled a head waiting for dawn to break With it came brightness and clarity A palette of blazing orange with whisps of grey brushing the sky Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Linda Lee Lyberg is hosting Monday Quadrille at D'Verse. She has promoted us with "Morning" A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, excluding the title Image by marion beraudias from Pixabay
Daily Haiku – Friday August 5, 2022
Senryu Looking to nature For answers to life’s problems Never disappoints Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
The Dog Days of Summer
The Dog Days of Summer
The Summer began in early Spring this year
Bringing merciless heat scorching body and earth
Cranking air conditioners and spinning fans
Beaches and pools crowded with souls
Searching for cooling comfort
The solstice came and went
and the arrival of rainy season gifted relief
As it slipped into its seasonal pattern
Now deep into August the sky is full
Moving clusters of cumulus clouds
Drape themselves across the blue-grey expanse
Emptying in intervals
With thirty second rain showers
Now you see them, now you don’t
Pouring on one side of the street,
Not the other
The sun peeking in between
Painting her rainbows
And as darkness falls mosquitoes come to life
Sending their targets scurrying
for the cover of citronella
Heat lightning glows red in the night sky
And thunder’s drum roll announces its presence
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August in Florida is God's way of reminding us who's in charge. -- Blaize Clement
Mish is hosting Open Link Night at D'Verse. This poem is in response to Sanaa's
prompt of The Month of August from Thursday night's D'Verse. I was running too late to post it!