NaPoWriMo – Day Twenty-four

mum and dad cry
as teenagers fly away-
cedar lark whir

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watching Chopped – hope
at least one judge is a
raw chard liker

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mum is relieved
that rain has washed away
chalk war rider

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farm chores are done-
time now for holding hands and
acre dark whirl

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indie punk band-
nothing to do with Nascar-
hark wild racer

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middle school
art project – nature with some goth-
dark wire larch

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These senryu were inspired by today’s prompt at NaPoWriMo.

The last line of each of these poems is an anagram of my name: Richard Walker. Most of the anagrams I used were four syllables in length, so these senryu follow a 4/6/4 syllable pattern. The last one is an exception, following a 3/8/3 pattern.

NaPoWriMo – Day Twenty-Two

senryu

one could say: people
talk entirely way too much-

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This is my take on the senryu prompt at Poetic Asides.

Mindful Writing Day

circular stain
on wooden steps – remnant
of jack-o-lantern

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This poem was written in response to the Mindful Writing Day prompt at Writing Our Way Home.

NaNoWriMo word count for day one: 1,953.

haiku (10/1/12)

an ellipse—
who can say where
it begins

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This poem was written in response to prompt #1 at OctPoWriMo.

haiku for Haiku Heights 9/30/12

running free—
away from the wind
and the walls

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This poem was written in response to the Free prompt at Haiku Heights.

haiku (9/29/12)

heavy fog—
fall gently on Earth
and me today

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This poem was written in response to today’s prompt at NaHaiWriMo on Facebook.

I’ve been away for a while. Too long, I think. Thanks to some good advice and gentle prodding from a good friend, I have decided to wet my feet with poetry again.

Thanks to those of you who have visited this blog and encouraged me. I appreciate it. I hope you’re still around. I’m working on overcoming some blocks, and am just going to move forward from this point. Hope that’s okay with all of you.

Support

you have us
supported that is—
now us you?

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This poem was written to the visual prompt above at Poetic Bloomings and to the support prompt at Haiku Heights.

Wisdom

Some wisdom
is to show the way—
now walk it

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This poem was written in response to the wisdom prompt at Haiku Heights.

The Sky

Fog clings to foothills—
unwilling to descend
into the valley

Wisps of fog—
I’m taken with how
they disappear

The fog murmurs—
before it’s invisible
listen to it

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These haiku/senyru were written in response to an idea about looking at the sky. I incorporated words from Three Word Wednesday: cling, murmur, and taken. They are also an unintentional response to the water, water everywhere prompt from Poetic Bloomings.

zest

It may not be an
apple a day, but zest does
make life worth living

a spiral of zest-
lemon or orange in drinks-
long life everyday

zest in a cocktail-
lemon zest in an entree-
no zest for dessert

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These poems were written in response to the zest prompt at Haiku Heights.