
Senryu Rain is falling hard Washing away the heartache Left behind by you Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Senryu Rain is falling hard Washing away the heartache Left behind by you Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Senryu A buttery sun Sits high in the midday sky Rain a distant thought Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Brazen colors of molten lava streak across the canvas of a smoldering sky The sun still a bursting yellow-pink guava The heat of the day a lingering memory while dark clouds form Red heat lightning flashes silently like muted fireworks Twilight closes in cooling the sand as the first rumble of thunder rolls Large raindrops dot the beach indenting miniature craters in slow motion before the clouds empty in buckets and a tsunami of beachgoers scatter The coolness of the rain douses the fiery heat that had drained my sweat and given me thirst until I became light-headed and faint Now cleansed and refreshed by the pleasant, dewy petrichor of the post-rainstorm My work is done Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Kim from Writing in North Norfolk is hosting Poetics at D'Verse and has prompted us as follows: (My choices are italicized) Choose ONE word from the list below (I’ve given definitions in brackets): anachronism (the placing of persons, events, objects, or customs in times to which they do not belong; a person or a thing out of place in time and especially the present time) filipendulous (hanging precariously – usually by a single thread) limerence (an involuntary state of intense desire) petrichor (a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather) pulchritudinous (beautiful) symphonia (musical unison) Now USE YOUR CHOSEN WORD AS THE TITLE OF A POEM, in any form of your choice, which explores that word in one (or more) of the following ways: anthropomorphise the word (give it human qualities) use zoomorphism (give the word animal qualities) objectify the word (describe it as an object) write the poem ‘through the eyes’ of the word – put yourself in its shoes write a stream of consciousness or ‘abstract’ poem about the word write an acrostic of the word
Haiku
Soft rain gently falls
Soothing musicality
Mellow and calming
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Haiku Gently falling rain Slowly soaking dusty ground Refreshing the earth Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Through a window
Raindrops fell silently
Pooling in miniature puddles
Between cobblestones
Water gently washing away
The day’s grime
Reminiscent of how, in quietness,
and behind the scenes of everyday events
The universe repairs and renews
A flower with thirst quenched
Dry, barren fields ready to receive seed
Dirt slowly becoming mud and disappearing
A metaphor for life that sometimes
Stops you in the tracks
of confusion and hesitancy
Wondering what has sullied your life
On this day, and why
Soon a cleansing rain will come
Revitalizing, restoring and reenergizing
Freshening all it touches
Life’s problems coming clean in the wash
Forgetting easily what had saddened
and temporarily paralyzed the soul
Life goes on
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Haiku Gentle rain falling softly on the metal roof making sweet music Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Haiku Rain on the water Falling like sparkling diamonds Never ending rings Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Haiku Rain dots the pavement As the sky becomes darker and the thunder claps Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved