Poem a Day Day 22 For Earth Day but not newly written today.

Holy Ground

This is Holy Ground,

You have desecrated

our Holy shrines.

Words said throughout the ages

 to excuse Mankind’s warring

and destructive ways.

But what is Holy Ground?

Where battles were fought,

or won or lost?

What is a holy shrine?

Where a person was born,

or lived, or died?

Is Holy Ground a man made thing?

Or is it forests, mountains

and teeming seas?

Look at the universe far and wide.

Where else can mankind live?

Nowhere we have found.

Our precious blue planet,

humanity’s only Holy Ground,

is all we have.

How much more death, war,

and destruction has to come

before we learn?

Will we reach out to one another,

to rescue, to preserve this,

our solitary refuge?

Or will we persist in slaughtering

people, animals, plants,

and lose the true Holy Ground?

We can preserve this rare and shining orb.

Or piece by piece destroy,

 our blue and living Earth.

Time grows shorter every hour.

Leaving us with less and less.

What will you do?

Today

Poem a Day Day 21

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Poem a Day Day 19

Day 19   “Write a poem in the form of a personal ad! Or, if you like, try any kind of want ad. Personal ads, though, do have a kind of poetry to them.”

 

Wanted:

A brother who won’t lead

his little brother astray

Into the path of destruction

Even if he has to die alone.

 

Also wanted:

A father who teaches his sons to obey

Not the tenets of violent rebellion

But the laws of love thy neighbor

 

The second would have been the key

To make the first unnecessary.

Poem a Day Day 18

Poem a Day   Day 18.  After reading some other poems today I feel humbled at even trying. but I am determined to finish the assignment.   Yeah, it’s sad again. From watching too much news I guess.

Here’s a link for a little Buddhist meditation on compassion and ignoring media hype.  Or at least not letting it in so deeply that it takes over the spirit. http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/not-watching-the-news-as-a-spiritual-practice

Today’s prompt … challenges us to write a poem that begins and ends with the same word.

If only

we could find

the wished for

Balm of Gilead

the source of healing

flowing from the heart

of giving love

some say it’s church

the pope or cross

and fluttering white dove

others say go

look within

just breathe away

thoughts of yesterday

or tomorrow

but looking

at the world today

it seems that

Gilead has fled

to some far flung

stellar shore

and left us with

if only

Poem a day. Day 11

NaPoWriMo says “write a tanka. This, like the “American” cinquain, is a poem based on syllables, with the pattern being 5-7-5-7-7. They work best when those final two 7-syllable lines contain a sort of turn or surprise that the first three lines might not wholly anticipate.”

Doesn’t exactly fit the rule, but I’m tired.

• 
  AOL email!
  Feel like I’ve just gone to hell.
  Where’s my address list?
  Sync it says the support rep.
  Down the sink instead I say.

Petition to try to stop Obama’s offer to reduce Social Security benefits

Sign the petition if you are against Obama’s offer to reduce Social Security benefits.

http://signon.org/sign/social-security-33.fb24?source=s.fb&r_by=7519420

Cranky answer to a Spring is Sprung poem.

A Facebook friend wrote this.  Below it is my cranky answer.

Spring has finally sprung.
Flora begins again to flourish.
There are but few clouds above.
Sunshine warms air and ground.
Gentle breezes play in the trees.
Cool grass tickles beneath toes.
Birds sing happily for you.
In this moment all is well.
What have you to be sorry for?

 

Cranky answer

Spring has sprung
rains flood the house
flora
makes me sneeze
No clouds
to stop sun’s heat
gentle breezes
turn to gusts.
wet grass
messes up my shoes
birds are crows
who screech
not sing
but even in
this moment
bad
I still
write
poems
is that sad
or glad?

 

Poem a Day – Day 6

My friend Rik, posts a Word a Day on his blog Uphill Writing . Today’s Word is Glean. But NaPoWriMo wants a a valediction — a poem of farewell. Sigh. Raw poem coming up. They said write a poem a day, after all. They didn’t say a “good” poem :-/   Plus WordPress keeps messing with the formatting. Sigh.

Glean

is the word of the day

on my friend’s Blog.

To learn, Webster says

uncover

little by little

discover

unknowns.

 

You can go forth

and glean

the truth

but what

if harvesting

results

in something

better left

alone.

 

Perhaps

the word

should be

Accept.

Say goodbye

to need to know.

Leave well

enough

behind

and go back

home.

http://nancycurteman.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/how-to-build-tension-in-your-novel/

Another post from Nancy Curteman on writing good mysteries.  Thanks Nancy.

 

 

http://nancycurteman.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/how-to-build-tension-in-your-novel/.

WordPress putting ads on the free sites now. :-(

I apologize for these [huge] ads WordPress has decided to put on this site.  They are not mine.  I would have to pay a fee now to not have them.