Haiku
The passing of time
going faster every day
as we get older
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Daily Haiku – Thu. October 31, 2019
Tag: time
Time Is Up
Time Is Up
Exhausted and drained
Grown tired of the never ending
game
No more rocks in the pile
Can no longer shift the blame
Differences to rejoice
Empathy and understanding
to be restored
Walk to towards each other
All avenues explored
A time to cast away stones
and a time to gather stones
together
It is now time to forgive
And find the white feather
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Quoting Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 American Standard Version (ASV)
She asked us to take two lines from the complete verse and work them
into our poem, either literally, or as a prompt.
I chose:
" a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together"
Here is the complete verse
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
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Heritage
Heritage
Mollusk crusted rock
In the ancient midden
Reflecting the life
Of times long hidden
History for us to unravel
In these gifts preserved
Stories of ancestors
Thoughtfully conserved
Uniformly collected
Treasures of times gone by
Chronicles the account
Of what happened, and why
Years of being derelict
Disrespecting our past
Acknowledging the fault was ours
Learning the lesson at last
We must forgive mistakes
Ignorance is not a crime
They knew not the value
Of that place and time
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
DVerse Poets Pub hosted tonight by Frank Hubeny
He has challenged us with “Blame and Forgiveness”
Word Prompts:
Derelict
Fault
Uniform
Back in Time
Back in Time
I wanted to believe
that I could travel
back to time past
To escape the pain
and the memories
How long could it last?
Itching to be gone
Disappearing
into thin air
Touch the stone
In theory be gone
Without a care
Tired of your criticism
Weary now
of the humorless pokes
Drained of energy
I stagger
My back on the ropes
Today is the day
I find myself here
In front of the stone
Concentrating hard
I say goodbye to you and
Back in time I am thrown
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
Word Prompts:
Itching
Critic
Air
Theory
Sue Vincent's Thursday Write/Photo Prompt
Daily Haiku – Mon. October 22, 2018
For thousands of years
The rivers smoothed the pebbles
Washing away time
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
Just a Matter of Time
Just a Matter of Time
It was sorcerous how she got there
Touching the stone thinking of a forebear
She was sent way back in time
To a place long before
Finding a love she wished for
Feeling like it was a crime
Living a life two centuries in yesteryear
Forgetting a husband once so dear
A fabulist weaving stories in her head
In the two lives she had dwelt
Once with a Briton and once with a Celt
Would either one believe a shred
Life full of magical fantasy
So far from her reality
A handsome warrior and protector
He had stolen her heart
How could they now ever part
For she had drunk his nectar
Reluctantly one day she returned
But the love she left there was spurned
The present was lost to her forever
The past called her to regress
To the highlands of tartan dress
She vowed to get there whenever
Lifting the hem of her frock
She scrambles up the rock
Stopping at the circle of stones
As she touches the granite
She begins to understand it
Feeling a shiver in her bones
She passes through time
Falling and tumbling in rhyme
Looking for the same track
To that time of long ago
Where she had dared to go
Now wishing to go back
Would he still be waiting there
Or would he forswear
Rejecting her devotion
Could he believe her story
Or see it as an allegory
or some foolish notion
Time really did stand still
She thought falling down the hill
It just won’t wait for any man
She felt fierce in commitment
Not fearing embarrassment
Vowing only that she can
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
Inspired by the novel Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Word Prompts:
OctPoWriMo – Poem a Day #20 – Time Stands Still
Stream of Consciousness Saturday – Can
Photo: Craigh na Dun, near Inverness Scotland
Time
Time
Time placed in a bottle
Saved for a rainy day
Remembrances sweet
A familiar scent
Jogging a memory
A feeling of foreplay
Slowing down
To savor the taste
Of delicious sentiments
Dancing in the mind
Toying with the senses
Having thoughts unchaste
Traveling back to that time
Bringing certain joy to the heart
Much younger then
The world was one’s oyster
The pearl for the taking
Lovers never to part
The hotel old and quaint
Room number 5
Overlooking the square
Lovemaking in the afternoon
Sipping on wine
Never felt more alive
Back in the present
Putting the photograph away
Pushing the time
Back in the bottle
Keeping the memory safe
Until it rains another day
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
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Daily Haiku – Friday, August 24, 2018
Wind gusting fiercely
Crashing waves against the rocks
Washing away time
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing
This Time
This time I will not buckle
My head is held high
I don’t have to listen to
Your angry words
That cause me to cry
This time I will succeed
I will stand up to you
No more make up
This time we break up
I cannot see this through
This time I will not give you
A platform on which to strand
You play both the victim
And the dictator
Delivering a back hand
This time I will not duck
Your words disguised as knives
I deflect them fearlessly
No scars this time
This cat has many lives
This time you’re not the man I love
You are someone unrecognizable
Nasty, accusatory and untruthful
Spewing your aggression
My pain is undeniable
This time it is different
I bear no fault for your behavior
Arrogance unbecoming
I am striving for freedom
Look elsewhere for a savior
This time I look ahead
Old feelings are obsolete
Eyes front and center
There’s no looking back
This chapter is now complete
Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©
Word Prompts:
Again – Poem of the Month – March 2018
Again
I have been here before
This place, this time
It feels the same
My heart feels the same
The date is the same
The year is different
What does it matter
The traditions of this day
Cause more pain and
More questions than necessary
I fall victim to this celebratory
Time again and again
It means nothing to me anymore
Once it was the hope
The expectation
Of things to come
Now it is a chore
A day to be spent alone again
Every year for whatever reason
It is inconsequential
It is underwhelming
It is dull
Next year I will disappear
From time and space
So I do not have to answer
Those inevitable questions
Christine Bolton