Gold Day
For Rommy’s prompt at Real Toads – Love hurts Gold Day the afternoon you left was a golden roux of fading autumn sunlight, spicy oak leaves – bright yellow, still holding on to the tree, not yet ready...
View Articleko no ha no ame
Sound of leaves falling like rain is the Japanese title translated to English. Yes I know we are in the midst of hot summer *up in the northern hemisphere) but autumn is my second favorite season. I...
View ArticleAutumn in My Mind
For Karin’s prompt at Real Toads – Autumn in My Mind I’m slipping away to the land of Autumn, stepping over that line of demarcation as easily as I slip from one state to the next: Welcome to...
View ArticleHaibun: Gold Day
For Frank’s prompt on dVerse – heartbreak or frustration. This is a rewriting and reworking of an original poem. In Japan, Friday is often known as Gold Day. this is about my lover who left to...
View ArticleAutumn is Falling to Sleep
For the Friday 55. An earlier poem re-written and re-worked. Autumn is Falling to Sleep Autumn is fall(ing) to sleep. The creek at the foot of the hill is not the gurgling child it was. Slower now and...
View ArticleAutumn Shows its Face
For Lillian’s prompt at dVerse Poets Pub. a double sestet and a loop poem. I have chosen the letters D, E, F, H, G.I. Autumn Shows Its Face Indian summer shows its face in colored leaves. Hibernating...
View ArticleKogane no aki ga hajimarimasu
As I do not do rhymes, I have elected to do a free form sonnet. Yes there is such a thing and many lovely ones have been written. A free form sonnet is 14 lines long. That is it. This is for Kim’s...
View ArticleHaiku 10062018
For Poets United Poetry Pantry and for Real Toads Tuesday Platform Haiku: 100062018 sleepy woodland pool – leaves drift on surface dreaming of past summer sun
View ArticleFall Knocks Slowly
For Real Toads Tuesday Platform Fall Knocks Slowly Fall knocks slowly at summer’s door: an old friend with shyness at returning and maybe told to leave. Leaves turn yellow and slowly drop on green...
View ArticleThe Season of Fireflies is Past
For Reat Toads Tuesday Platform. The Season of Fireflies is Past “There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.” Anthony Bourdain The season of fireflies is past. the shade from trees is getting longer...
View ArticleHaibun: aki fukashi
For Toads Tuesday Platform. 秋深し (あきふかし Autumn Deepens Meigetsu: the harvest moon is fading. Bright gold coin in the black sky dims and wanes to a partial dish of cream. Hatsu grashi – the first storm...
View ArticleHaibun: The Last Holdout
For Imelda (guest prompting at dVerse) prompt of waiting at dVerse Haibun Monday. A haibun is a short prosimetric Japanese form. I am following my new style of writing haibun in the abbreviated style...
View ArticleAutumn Contemplation
Autumn Contemplation “The upper reaches here and the lower of the river – the friend for the moon.” Matsuo Basho Meigetsu, the harvest moon is fading – Bright gold coin in black sky now dims and wanes...
View ArticleWaning Moon
For Kerry’s prompt on Toads: a poem by Rupi Kaur, using the reference: ‘fill the empty parts… We are to write a micro-poem of 10 lines or fewer. This is also posted for Open Link Night at dVerse Poets...
View ArticleAutumn is Coming
For Mish’s prompt at dVerse, using the art of Beverly Dyer. Autumn is Coming “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive...
View ArticleApple Air
An American sentence for Sarah’s prompt at dVerse – waiting and anticipiation. An American sentence is exactly 17 syllables and is a complete sentence. It was created by Allen Ginsberg because he...
View ArticleAlmost Autumn
For Poets United, Poetry Pantry. The birds are vanishing from the skies. Almost Autumn “Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to...
View ArticleAutumn I
a gogyohka. An untitled Japanese form of five lines. There is no syllable count per line but each line must be a short stand alone phrase. The lines can be between one word or more, but the phrase is...
View ArticleAutumn II
An American Sentence. Autumn II “Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.” ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s The first cool day of autumn, I sat and...
View ArticleThe River
For Sherry’s Prompt at Real Toads, Wonder. I know few things more wonderful than trees and then it is trees beneath autumn skies. And the wonder of it all, they are free to us all. An American...
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