Luck ~ free verse

Luck is all I have
Plucked it off the air
All I have is now
Calling me to fight
Is my heart too loud
Bliss calls me a fool
Rules fall for the muse
Cruel wars lose to light
Right sides with my truth
Bright days fill with luck

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Mindfills

Time ~

Time doesn't let us stay in one place
or be the same person
Destiny, like a whirlwind on a first date
spins all the wheels, all at once
Life has a strange permanent smirk
watching the evanescence of it all 
Born to ride whimsical tides 
I learn, letter by letter,  to hold on tight
 

midnight ~ senryu

midnight-blue charcoal 
meandering lovingly
~ sketch-book overwhelmed

Mindfills for Shweta’s WSP ~ love; kigo ~ charcoal (sumi, all winter).

I woke up a ghost ~ free verse

I woke up a ghost
found myself floundering
'tween two realms,
both nebulous and nonsensical,
splitting my twin self,
splicing my consciousness, 
as I floated in momentous bliss
into what happened next

Mindfills for Eugi’s Moonwashed Musings ~ nonsensical; FOWC ~ flounder ; Sammi Cox’s weekend writing prompt ~ momentous in 32 words; Linda Hill’s SOCS twin & tween

Keep voice soft~MTB

Keep voice soft as nectar please
Like springtime soap bubbles
What’s happening to me?
When wild wind murmurs her name
Chanting night’s soothing symphony
Finger painting dreams
Calling it wisdom
Churning out new days
As indeed I indulge, concede, and say Yes!
Home is close
There’s no tomorrow
And it’s not midnight…yet

Mindfills for dVerse MTB ~ in the end is my beginning hosted by Laura. The writing challenge is to use the last lines of our poems (at least 12) to make this one. I absolutely enjoyed writing this one! Click on each line to read the poem it ended.

Creativity Forms Verses ~ Atoz

photo credit ~ vidya shankararaman

David  of The Skeptic’s Kaddish and Sangeetha of Mindfills began a fun poetry partnership in April. We celebrated writing together a 100 verse renga The Hyakuin, Ripples.  And within days, decided we would absolutely love to continue our writing collaboration and celebrate what has grown to be a warm friendship with new poetry projects.

We decided to explore poetry forms. A to Z. Each week one of us chooses a poetry form the other responds to. We completed our first series Form verses creativity in June ’22. We knew we’re on to something. So we wrote the next set of poetry forms A to Z ~ Creativity Verses Form. Here, we added a little twist for version2.0, with a key word starting with the same letter.

And now, and in December ’22, we’re onto our fourth collaborative writing project ~ Creativity Forms Verses. To form verses, we turned to creativity, inventing new poetry forms, A through to Z.

For ‘A’, David created the ‘Atoz’ form.

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A: Atoz

David’s Atoz

After Breakfast, I Call to my Daughter:
TimE's Flying! We've Got to get going now!
SHe resIsts my firm nudging JoKingly:
Let's Make browNies Or Pecan pie instead!
Quite the cleveR little raScal, this girl...
I'm quiTe AmUsed but also rather Vexed;
She Won't outfoX me this time- Not again!
Irked, I saY: you know Zebra cake's my fave!

Sangeetha’s Atoz

At aBout 9, my daughter CalleD
"Ma, your poEms are oF course alriGht
But tHe sIte needs a reJig y'Know
Let Me desigN yOur 'Mindfills' Page;
QuiRk it up a bit; Shift this to there;
Tweak the font, Up the Volume!"
This Wizard of mine used her eXpertise
And deftlY jaZzed up this very site. 

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Atoz?

• One stanza of 8 lines;
• No word count; no syllable count; no required rhyme or rhythm;
• Each line must include certain letters of the alphabet in a certain order, as follows:
  1. A, B, C, D,
  2. E, F, G,
  3. H, I, J, K,
  4. L, M, N, O, P,
  5. Q, R, S,
  6. T, U, V,
  7. W, X,
  8. Y, Z
• These letters can be put anywhere in any word in their lines. They need not be the first letters of their words; and any word may contain more than one letter, as long as they remain in order;
• The required letters must all be CAPITALIZED and bolded, regardless of where they fall;
• All required letters must be in order in each line.
  • For example, if the first word in the first line is “bang”, only the “A” in “bang” would count for that line because the “B” must occur after the “A”.
  • On the other hand, if the first word in the first line is “about”, both the “A” and the “B” would count towards the requirements of the “Atoz” – because they are in the correct order.

Read all in our series. We would be absolutely delighted if you write an Atoz 🙂 Do share.

A ~ Atoz

November ~ Tanka

November bonfire
dancing with withering winds
in full costume
slashes of flaming crimson
chant night's soothing symphony

Mindfills for dVerse ~ ekphrastic poetry hosted by Merril. Kigo ~ withering wind (kogarashi, early winter),bonfire (takibi, all winter).

candy ~ a quadrille

Candy floss clouds
trail sirens of sunset
in foolish hope
of a maybe

Twilight rains
icy blue frost
dressed up
in sparkles

Window pane shivers
impatiently waiting 
for your silk voice
to melt the cold 

I wait for you
my winter-cozy;
Come home to soup
Yours, warmly

Mindfills for dVerse quadrille (a poem of 44 words) ~ warmly;

You ~ free verse

You have been warned
You'll be hypnotized
I will count to three
Be still as a tree
Your breath steady
Your eyes heavy
Fingers fuzzy
Asleep already
Top of your head tingles
raining gentle tendrils
of mother's kindness
of nature's mildness 
Your shoulders are lighter
Your lips turn the corner
And you are free
To just be
Whenever you please
Listen to this peace 
Make every battle end
Make silence your revenge

Mindfills for Sammi Cox’s weekend writing prompt ~ revenge in 72 words; Sadje’s wdys

sea shells ~ free verse

sea shells beached on white sands

in blissful after-life

curves, curls, runes

quiet in respite

quiet in remembrance

of an epic 

of earth's music 

of stories swum through with the one other

of what we, even in our infinite 

imagination 

can only call fantasy 

Mindfills for dVerse OLN