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The Storm Raged – #poetry #SeptemberWriting

28 Saturday Sep 2019

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The storm raged
thunderous explosions
like the Fourth of July
without its colors
rattled windows
dislocated, limbs fell
against the glass
or did they knock
asking me, to let them in
shelter from the battle
I don’t know, shades drawn
lights out, I could not see
seated in the darkness
only my shadow reflected
on the wall, as lightning
danced across the skies
illuminated, then black again
ice pellets, echoed,
the noise, like machine guns,
ravaging the night, a hunter
claimed his prey
then unexpected silence
the only sound heard
was the peaceful rain,
gently falling.

a truce…………

 

September Writing Prompt – Electric Sky

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Conquer – #Shadorma – #poetrychallenge

27 Friday Sep 2019

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Colleen’s poetry challenge for this week is synonyms only!  Her two words are Fall and Give.  Check out Colleen’s blog to find which forms of poetry are acceptable for this challenge.  Have fun!

Written as a Shadorma, my synonyms are Plunge and Entrust.


I must learn

When to take the plunge

To conquer

Obstacles

Yet, entrust myself wholly

To heed the lesson

 

Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 146 Fall & Give

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I’ve Aged – #poetry

25 Wednesday Sep 2019

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Lines, once hidden,
Have grown bolder now;
No way to hide them,
Can’t disavow.

Months of worry,
This illness claimed;
To live with this,
A horrid change.

Takes courage to fight,
The strange, unknown;
A weakness,
I must not condone.

Make time to rebuild,
No reason to preclude;
Dreams, tucked away,
Need be, pursued.

Not sure where I’ll land,
Nor at what stage;
But this much I know,
I have surely aged.

 

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The Spirit of Autumn – #poetry

24 Tuesday Sep 2019

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As day breaks, her spirit breathes

Patiently awaiting, the falling leaves

Orange, yellow, and russet red

Each tree will shed its leafy head

Decorate the ground, in perfect hue

Colors, delightful, in a vision true

Landscapes change, an added breeze

Stripping the forest’s brilliant trees

Until at last, they stand naked, bare

The spirit of autumn, now lays there

 

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Equinox – #poetry #autumn

23 Monday Sep 2019

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In the dead of night,
When moonlight shines
My lantern captures,
That which is mine.

Awakening graveyard,
The spirits do beckon
Calling out to me,
At least, what I reckon;

Is their immortal way
Of conveying their wishes
And I am never,
At all, suspicious.

For this is the time
Of the year I bloom
Though others may see
A most certain gloom

Autumnal equinox
My treasure, my Fall
The time in my life,
When the spirits enthrall

 

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