my fingers remember the colours
when sunrise surprised you at dawn
and your blue eyes covered me
in sea breeze and bird songs
painting the moment
we could secert
in two hearts
and one
soul
Mindfills for Colleen Cheesebro’s Tanka Tuesday ~ ekphrastic poetry – syllabic form, Moonwashed Musings ~ evolve; GoDogGo cafe
riding on the breeze
opalescent soap bubbles
~ love yearns to delight
Mindfills for Colleen Cheesebro’s Tanka Tuesday ~ senryu
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 ‘L’, Sangeetha created the ‘Ludo’ form.
Once upon a poem, I chanced upon a mind
Gifted with genius, a wordcrafter sublime
Cerebral in scripting lyrical poetry
Synchronizing true rhythms and rare philosophy
Imagination intrigued interestingly
Intellectually, extraordinary!
By chance, I've a friend with a poetic, kind heart-
Wisdom deep, perspective and cleverness imparts;
Lyrical she and eminently expressive-
Compassionate words and approach unaggressive;
Harmoniously pens lines alphabetical-
Imaginativeness ~ non-hypothetical!
A ~ Atoz
B ~ Beyonder
D~ Doremido
E~ Ex
F ~ Fibonacci Sapta
G ~ Golden Drill
H ~ Helipad
I ~ Inetersperse
J ~ Juxtadecasec
K ~Keywyrd
L~ Ludo
sparkle on fresh snow
window's winter frost cracks a smile
~meaning of sunrise
spring opens a door
tranquil burst of pink blossoms
~meaning of delight
crushed orange evenings
sands keep secrets warm all night
~meaning of summer
monsoon lashes out
at palm trees on river banks
~ meaning of nature
till the last leaf falls
distant red stars stay awake
~ what does it mean
Mindfills for The Skeptic’s Kaddish ~ W3 prompt by Denise de Vries. We are told to use an online generator for a prompt. I used the word generator, and got the word Significs ~ the science of meaning ; Kigo ~tranquil (nodoka, all spring)
Wallpaper eyes watch
a blur of truths
packaged in bleached silk
and rainbows
I shrink
into another story of me
the ink from my eyes write
to fill a fallen silence
Mindfills for Sadje’s WDYS
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 ‘K’, David created the ‘Keywyrd’ form.
True deceivers and heathens; every
end throughout history decreed and
arranged; direful truth effected; humanity
huddled desperately at the edge;
eternity's threshold devours all hope
Endings rankle faith in goodness;
inevitable gloom forebodes, eschewing reason;
regret inches forward, gathering evidence;
emotions, feelings, glum; reality, inconsolable
I go feeble, remembering endings
A ~ Atoz
B ~ Beyonder
D~ Doremido
E~ Ex
F ~ Fibonacci Sapta
G ~ Golden Drill
H ~ Helipad
I ~ Inetersperse
J ~ Juxtadecasec
K ~Keywyrd
To the younger me,
Spend less of your life doing
Live your soul...being
Mindfills for Sadje’s Sunday poser ~ what would you tell your younger self?
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 ‘J’, Sangeetha created the ‘Juxtadecasec’ form.
I set off on an epic adventure
Chirpy, full of beans but wallet empty
See, feel, search, closed doors and open hearts;
Part of the fun lies in finding out;
Doubts may go; Faith may stay; Trails may just end,
Sending me back fast to life's battle front;
Untraveled, I neither win nor lose
Shoes I don, pack my night lamp, start my day;
Playing every end game, I start from scratch
Catch my breath and throw caution to the sky.
Feet planted on earth, eyes
trained to the sky,
My questions seek answers that trouble Man;
Can it be- life ends with death's certain cut?
What if, more or less, there's nothing but now?
How to find meaning with nothing to lose?
Whose grand joke is this, this dark tragedy?
Free will or fate? To surrender or try?
Why even bother? Is belief not odd?
God, gods, or chaos? Order lures the mind;
Finding faith a front, it's back down the street.
A ~ Atoz
B ~ Beyonder
D~ Doremido
E~ Ex
F ~ Fibonacci Sapta
G ~ Golden Drill
H ~ Helipad
I ~ Inetersperse
J ~ Juxtadecasec
When at 3 am I'm stirred awake,
summer strewn, in a sea of clouds, huddled,
Keep voice soft as nectar please;
You can't see it, a labyrinth of roots from across time;
Thought is still;
City oasis, a sliver of winter,
touched by a moonbeam, transcends...
Once upon a poem, I found my friend
Mindfills for Found Poem, hosted by Laura Bloomsbury at DVerse. We are asked to stitch the first lines of our first poems of the 12 months of 2022. I love this challenge! The line “Keep voice soft as nectar please” is from the other Found poem. Thank you Laura 💕
I sat down to script a lie
a song to blur the edge of life
Ivory keys held my trembling hands awhile
played ting ting to make me smile
Words floated in for a caring peek
To soothe the grimy tear on my cheek
My song became a wail of woe
My faith fell face down on the floor
Music then sat me down and said
Hush you silly one, you're not done yet
So what if deceit is what they chose
It's their sad story, not yours
Truths and lies..Oh they're whimsical has-beens
Just live and love the in-between
Mindfills for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt ~ script (100 words); RDP ~ blur; Cee’s CBWC ~ anything music
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