The Secret of the Willow – Blogging U – Poetry 201 – Day 1

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The secret of the Willow

Weeping willow dips

Bows blow, golden tears hang low

Conceal sweethearts lips

Cheryle Baker

Oct 8, 2015

RUBBISH

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POETRY REHAB 101

RUBBISH

Discarded

Put aside

No longer wanted, tossed

Alone

Across a pile of the broken

The outdated, the spoiled

Left to mingle and slide

Deep into the stench

Pawed over by claws

Food for the unbidden

The hidden hordes

Spiders, beetles, millipedes and roaches

Decay descends

Pieces split away

Slime grows white, green and black

Rain dissolves the remains

Washes away anything

To prove I existed

Cheryle

Poetry 101 Rehab June 3, 2015

PHOTOBLOGGERS CHALLENGE – MAY 2015 – SPRING

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The challenge this month is spring. Here are my photo interpretations of the month of May.

To begin I will refer you to a previous post a poem: The Sound of Spring Has Come to My Garden.

https://lightwalker1.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/the-sound-of-spring-has-come-to-my-garden/

Apple blossoms bloom bring about thoughts of fall fruit and pie

Hardening off tender plants in preparation for their days in the garden sun

Rhubarb leaves – poisonous, but the fruit is delicious

Rhubarb ready for tarts

The taste of Spring, flavour ready to eat

However you enjoy it, Spring wakes up our eyes, taste buds and imagination of good things to come.

Cheryle May 2015

Day 13 – Blogging U – Writing 101 – Serially Found

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Day 13’s Prompt: write about finding something.

Day 13’s twist: if you wrote day four’s post as the first in a series, use this one as the second installment — loosely defined.

Since I submitted a Petrarchan Sonnet for the previous post in this series, I have attempted to follow it up with a Terza Rima. The Terza Rima form follows aba bcb cdc ded etc repeat with lines the same length. It is usually in iambic pentameter, but I strayed from this requirement plus I switched up the last stanza.

This is such a formal form, I don’t think my voice rings through.

Charlie

Black and white kitty with a moustached face

Lost or abandoned, feral life of hell

Ferocious hunter, pouncing prey a race

Secret neighbourhood paths you know so well

Hidden from humans your gender a guess

Male, female, spayed, neutered? No one can tell

Well-mannered kitty never leaves a mess

Human wary, those brooms and boots they toss

Warm engine blocks dangerous for a rest

Harmless hands held out, no scent to betray

Sniffs, licks, purrs, a memory of your loss

Soft fur baby move in my home today.

Cheryle April 2015 Terza Rima

DAY 5 – BlOGGING U – WRITING 101 – BREVITY

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The Letter

Tears roll unbound down my cheeks

I refold the page, its paper worn

Re-read many times, many years

The letter fell

Lost

Left alone and cold

On the street

I look up, around

There,

Rounding the far corner

I glimpse

A woman of a certain age

It is her name typewritten in black

Her heart held by the words

Her life bent over backward

My fingers brush her shoulder

Padded for protection

An illusion of strength

Her head turns

Our eyes speak

My tears tell the tale

She knows

Her history struck my heart

I clutch her tightly

Hold her close

Tears flowing freely

She tilts my face to hers gently

Her rough thumb

Wipes away my pain

She whispers softly

It’s Ok, – I survived

She lets go

I am left

Alone and cold

She disappears into the fracas of people

Rushing along the street.

Cheryle April 11, 2015

BLOGGING U – WRITING 101 DAY 4

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DAY FOUR; SERIALLY LOST

Yes, I am posting the Day Four assignment before I have done Day Three. I am having difficulty deciding which songs I want to showcase in the commit to writing assignment.

Day Four’s Prompt: Write about a loss: something (or someone) that was part of your life, and isn’t any more.

This is to be the first of three connected posts, I therefore chose to resurrect a sonnet I wrote a number of years ago while taking classes at the Alexandria Writers’ Centre Society in Calgary. I hope you don’t mind. I plan to create two new posts in response to the serial aspect of the assignment when those segments are presented.