Luminescent moon
Wigglers crawl up from below
Where are all the fish?
Emily
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
#Haikai Challenge #129 (3/7/20): Super (Worm) Moon #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Worm Moon
Category: Daily Prompt
Senescence
Swiftly failing memory
Trauma less retrograde amnesia
That daily duel with the doddering drudge
The friendly fog of forgetfulness
Erasing the bad with the good
The sweet soothing balm of oblivion
Kindly buffering the agonizing pain of loss
Expunging both broken dreams and hearts
Shrouding all the disagreements and battles
Cushioning the relentless creep of old age
With the gentle haze of oncoming senility.
Emily
Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge: November 5, 2019: Today’s prompt: Write a piece of prose or poetry with the phrase “swiftly failing memory” in it
Lurking Quietly Behind the Beauty
Lurking quietly behind the beauty
Proud panoply of multicolored trees
Dark vees mournfully honking south
A certain tart crispness in the air
The languishing taste of autumn
That distinctive odor of fallen leaves
Softly brimming with creeping decay
All these things hint at the hidden truth
The year is silently fading away.
Emily
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge October 29, 2019: Use the phrase “behind the beauty” in any kind of writing you choose
Summer’s Last Dying Kiss
Luminous sunshine radiates down
an electric blue sky vibrates overhead
traced with a fine lacing of wispy white clouds
trees swathed boldly in motley color
vaunt their autumnal plumage
unharvested fields glow golden
skein of geese honking south
soft rustling swirl of dry leaves
a warm breeze gently caressing the cheek
summer’s last dying kiss.
Emily
October 15, 2019
Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge: Tuesday, October 15, 2019: Today’s prompt: Use the words “last dying kiss” in a piece of poetry or prose
Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge: Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Chinook
First spring gust surges
Wind’s wake betrays thaw’s approach
Honking Vee’s flying
Harbingers of equinox
Efflorescent explosion.
Emily
I choose to write a Tanka.
#Haikai Challenge #72 (2/9/19): first spring gust (haru ichiban) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) in which you state or allude to the first spring gust (haru ichiban)
Aspiration
Streaking sky grey
Fleecy clouds inspire
/Imagination/
Wondrous visions
Misty blue hills rising
Decorating the horizon
Vistas expanding
Worlds mysterious
/Numberless/
Dreaming of impossibilities
Potentialities expanding
/Unlimited/
Becoming reality
Woolgathering
Frees the spirit
Profits your soul.
Emily
Exactly 36 Words
Weekend Writing Prompt #92: “Wool-gathering”
Mendacity
Painted faces beam
Dominating beauty scene
Hiding shallow souls.
Emily
Tuesday Writing Prompt January 29, 2019: shallow souls
Abiding
Fallow lies the furrowed earth
Entombed by bitter bleakness
Winter, that inhospitable season
Waiting patiently
Seasons cycling
Spring’s rebirth
Exuberant verdant explosion
Flora splitting the soil
Wild geese scything the sky
Songbirds caroling joyfully
Fountaining hope
Resurrection of the soul.
Emily
40 Words exactly
Weekend Writing Prompt #90: “Furrowed”
What Christmas Means To Me
My poem What Christmas Means to Me has been published on Brave And Reckless for Winter Holiday Writing Prompt Challenge. Read it here:
Winter Holiday Writing Prompt Challenge: What Christmas Means to Me/Emily Karn
If the rhythm of the poem seems somewhat familiar I was channeling The Sound of Music the day I wrote it.
Emily
Revenant
“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Darkness is my cloak /Wrap it tight/
Shielding every movement
Bathed by the light of the new moon
Howling of the wolves /Prelude/
Minutes of terror
My presence wrecks
Stealthily I creep
Upon my prey
Oblivious in their innocence
Hot red blood /Beckoning/
Fast beating hearts /Throbbing/
Drawing me in
I open my mouth wide /Strike/
My fangs dig deep /Feast/
Limp bodies /Paley waxen/
Take to wing
Soaring through the skies
Seeking /Ever seeking/
I revel in everything I am
/Creature of the night/
Predator /Slayer/
Vampire!
Emily
Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge: January 15, 2029
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