Written In Response To:
Word Of The Day Challenge – Flight
take flight and migrate
for Autumn is on its way
new season soul’s joy
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reflections
Guaranteed Good
An Invitation To Faith – Choka Poem
The Choka (長歌 long poem) is:
- a narrative.
- syllabic. Composed of any number of couplets made up of alternating 5-7 onji (sound syllables) per line. In English we can only treat the onji as a syllable.
- unrhymed.
- concluded by a hanka, an envoy in the form of the waka, 31 onji or sound syllables in 5 lines with 5-7-5-7-7. “han” meaning repetition, the hanka is to summarize the Choka. The word tanka is often substituted for hanka or waka (they are all rooted in the same 31 syllable, 5 line form, their root seems to make them interchangeable with only subtle differences to separate them.) Poetry Magnum Opus.
Written In Response To:
MLMM Sunday Writing Prompt – Train Ticket – For today’s prompt you are going on a train ride. Choose either the journey itself as your focus (a classic mystery/crime drama to solve for example) or the destination. The train need not be of this reality and therefore it can take you anywhere including the after life! As to how you came by the train ticket that too can have mysterious origins.
train ticket arrives
from whence it came is unknown
intrigued to accept
ride is pre-reserved
date and time already booked
today, time is now
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anxiously I hesitate
remember to breathe
destination is unknown
note with ticket says
board with faith don’t ask questions
again I pause, breathe
then step aboard waiting train
fear, not an option
train unseen by human eyes
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unscabbed eyes awake
a new understanding dawns
solid foundation
that grew from a mustard seed
believing without seeing
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Take Hold
across fields of green
a light of hope shines for us
take hold and believe
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Truly Awakened
Written In Response To:
V.J.’s Weekly Challenge #58: Just When I Thought… – Life seldom unfolds in straight lines. It’s not necessary to repeat the prompt phrase, but this week let’s think about the times when life has turned an abrupt corner, or caught us off guard.
Light Motiffs II Thursday Inspiration 14 -This week’s theme is fragile and the picture is below.
Just when I thought this heart
could not become any more fragile
the Hand that holds it breaks
this heart to shatter into depths
of a Love that I never knew
could be so rooted to contain…
Loving and forgiving beyond
heights, lengths, and widths
I never desired to go beyond…
just when I thought is when
I became truly awakened.
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Stirring Within
Written In Response To:
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #97 – PROMPT: This week, we will play around with – QUOTES – PREFERABLY AROUND WRITING, CREATIVITY OR WRITER’S BLOCK. If you have a brilliant thought about something else, you are most welcome to share it in the form of a quote. The choice of format is yours – text, jpeg, video or anything else.
Stirring within…
a voice that must have its say
the writer’s soul.
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Rugged Journey
Melting Edges
Unfolding
Silent Presence
Written In Response To:
V.J.’s Weekly Challenge #57: Presence – This week, please join me in contemplating ‘presence’. It’s easy to participate – just create a post on the topic on your own site and link it up to this one.
Sue Vincent Thursday Photo Prompt: Clarity #writephoto – Use the image below as inspiration to create a post on your own blog… poetry, prose, humour… light or dark, whatever you choose, by noon (GMT) Wednesday 24th July and link back to this post with a pingback to be included in the round-up. There is no word limit and no style requirements, except to keep it fairly family friendly.
Clarity…sometimes the soul aches
to receive it thus banishing the confusion
yet, at times nothing is heard
in that moment one awakens
to realize a deeper maturity of Spirit
the Presence of Grace is often silent…
clarifying all confusion.
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