Be calm
oh little one
it is time now to rest.
Cuddle-in now, don’t be distressed.
Sleep deep.
Padre
Cuddle-in
Cinquain
Game Time
Breath held
Excited anticipation
Dreams that their team will win
They fill the stands
Trusting
Colleen’s syllabic challenge this week is to write a poem using synonyms for eager and hope. As sports often have reversals, I have gone with a reverse cinquain form.
Padre
By Dreams United
Distant –
Sleep united
Nocturnal encounters
Of our souls and minds in repose
Dreams sweet
Colleen’s syllabic challenge is to write a poem with the themes of dreams.
An Evening Damp
Rain falls
On damp pavement
Night falls on city streets
Commuters scramble homeward-bound
To sleep
Padre
Tides
Tides turn
Ebb follows flow
The flotsam and jetsam
Intertwine and then float away
Cycle
Padre
Colleen’s syllabic challenge this week is to write a poem which uses synonyms for “mingle and drift.”
Job Well Done: A Cinquain
A deed
Done zealously
Trying always to please
I should have never dreamed he would
Thank me
Padre
Colleen’s syllabic challenge this week is to write a poem using synonyms for Imagine & Gratitude.
Lakeside
Lakeside
Amid bare trees
The water Autumn greets
Together in the year’s twilight
Content
Padre
A cinquain for Colleen’s #POET’SCHOICE challenge.
Crowned (ABP 9)
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Confined
And Arrested
A captive tightly bound
Led before a court kangaroo
Silent
Taunted
New judge to face
Unwelcome case propound
Sent away – another verdict
To seek
Palace
King’s judgement seat
“Perform some magic feat”
No “magic” tricks exhibited
Quiet
Return
Caesar’s law face
Free him or another?
Fickle masses – criminal free
Fate seal
Beaten
Thorn-crowned visage
Cross through city to bear
Raised upon post of shame and death
“Finished”
August Bible Poems 9 – I thought a crown cinquain would be a symbolically suitable form for this poem.
Padre
“Circled and Squared”
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Colleen’s syllabic challenge this week is to write a poem which uses synonyms for circled and squared. I went with the cinquain form and the idea of circling around an issue (circled) when what is needed is coming to see things eye-to-eye (squared).
Beating
Around the bush
Won’t get us anywhere
Resolution needs to be found
Declared
Padre
Departed Witness: Mirror Cinquain
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Mourn we
The awful loss.
You departed now – far
From our selfish unthinking midst.
Gone now –
Your sage
Witness of the things that have passed –
Now forever silent
You great oak shall
Remain
Padre
Colleen’s syllabic challenge this week was to write on the theme inspired by the quote: “Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.” Herman Hesse
I have gone with the mirror cinquain form, and the added prompt to the image of a dead oak. I think to the quote and image work well together to set the mood.
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