Senryu At the water’s edge her reflection visible and the face was weary Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Daly Haiku – Wednesday May 24, 2023
Tag: reflection
Daily Haiku – Thursday June 2, 2022
Haiku The sun’s reflection Caught on the water’s surface Bright sparkling diamonds Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved
Reflection
Reflection
Sitting on a bench
in the park
Anonymous and unseen
Her situation seemed stark
Reflecting on her life
What might have transpired
had she made better decisions
she would have what she required
Marginalized and alone
The people in her life had scattered
Choosing to follow their own path
She felt her world tattered
Her life orchestrated
by a bully of a husband
Allowing him to be her voice
Feeling completely bludgeoned
Here in her loneliness
Her soliloquy takes shape
Determined to cleanse and deterge
To find her escape
Her life belongs to her
and nobody other
She will finally break free
He will no longer smother
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
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Eyes wide Open – Week Four
I was lucky with the weather this week. It gave me some beautiful sunset photos and I found a few colorful things to share with you.
Enjoy your Saturday!
Sunset reflection captured in the performing arts hall
A lone Bird of Paradise
Some colorful fish decorating the side of someone’s house
A Yellow Crowned Night Heron not bothered with me at all
Pretty Spanish Moss on an Oak tree
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
Immorality
The politics of yet another day
Causing a stir amongst the masses
Spirited conversations ignite
One voice louder than the next
A proverbial battle of the classes
A line is drawn in the sand
That no one dares to cross
You fear for your life
Silence might be best
Your beliefs your albatross
Tantamount to a civil car
The rebellious versus the righteous
Neither side knows what they don’t know
A verbal conflict louder and longer
The winner being the most pious
Blind faith of the minority
And an archaic amendment
Gifted us with what we have today
Fractured here and broken there
Drowning us in a pool of resentment
Knocking down our allies
With scornful and outrageous demands
When the anti truth becomes your facts
You are making enemies of your people
Whose dilemmas you will never understand
An association doomed for failure
A reflection on our society’s blindness
The moral compass conveniently cast aside
In favor of the inflated ego
Observing the decline of social responsibility
Where self-serving trumps kindness
Those paying homage to the narcissistic god
From his shirttails they will unhitch
When their stipend shows no relief
Their sum of all fears will be balanced
By Karma who will prove to be a Bitch
Christine Bolton
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Trigger
Trigger
There is a trigger
I unknowingly squeeze
Time after time
I’m blindsided
God help me please
Not recognizing
All the warning signs
I stumble blindly
On your mood this day
Failing to read between the lines
On reflection
It was there to see
In plain sight
Why did I not know?
So foolish of me
Clear indications
Of your displeasure
Slowly building
Gaining strength
Difficult to measure
I had opportunities
To notice the clues
But once more I failed
Blind to the fact
You would soon accuse
The last interaction
Was highly explosive
We are struggling
To find our way back
From a place so corrosive
More than a squabble
It was a full-blown fight
Once more we jump
On the merry-go-round
Too eager to incite
I don’t know how
To keep us afloat
I navigate your angst
Running on to the rocks
And capsizing the boat
Until we find common ground
And begin the repair
There is no hope for us
We will surely drown
In our mutual despair
Christine Bolton
Daily Word Challenge: Squabble