Come play in the sun, Creatures frolic, at last seen, Humans are at bay ~ FlorenceT The haiku is a contribution to Ronovan's Haiku Challenge #298. This week's prompt words are play and bay. Asp made me think of venom, while surge is a synonym for jump. Too tenuous the relationships? 🙂 If you are interested… Continue reading Frolic #Haiku 298
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The Crone and I
“All futures are tinted by the way in which you choose to view them.” Cat Hellisen 'Mother, Crone, Maiden' What image pops into your head when you hear the word ‘crone’? What characteristics do you associate with this female archetype? Does she remind you of the 3 witches in ‘Macbeth’, ‘fire burn and cauldron… Continue reading The Crone and I
Apocalyptic movie or documentary?
The promise of a movie night, with a simple dinner and a little sugar-filled treat we had bought for later. All seemed in place. She picked an apocalyptic movie – humanity’s only survivors from a climate disaster on a train to nowhere under the control of the greedy in power. Twenty minutes in and I’d… Continue reading Apocalyptic movie or documentary?
Cloud #Haiku Challenge 151 @RonovanWrites
RonovanWrites Haiku Challenge 151 with prompt words - Please, Tease charm and seduction, pleasure to behold, a tease of light beyond clouds. ~ FlorenceT © 2017 FlorenceT Copyright reserved. The author asserts her moral and legal rights over this work.
The light #Haiku Challenge 150 @RonovanWrites
RonovanWrites Haiku Challenge 150 with prompt words - Miracle, Save She, miraculous, Light reflecting love, perfect Save for this wild world. ~ FlorenceT © 2017 FlorenceT Copyright reserved. The author asserts her moral and legal rights over this work.
Lost #Haiku Challenge 145 @RonovanWrites
RonovanWrites Haiku Challenge 145 with prompt words - Beautiful, Curse She railed, offensive, Her beautiful charms lost, time is no friend to her. ~ FlorenceT © 2017 FlorenceT Copyright reserved. The author asserts her moral and legal rights over this work.
#Haiku Challenge 111 @RonovanWrites
RonovanWrites Haiku Challenge 111 with prompt words - Rhyme, Reason Poetry will speak to heart, like rain to flowers No reason needed. ~ FlorenceT © 2016 FlorenceT Copyright reserved. The author asserts her moral and legal rights over this work.
#Haiku Challenge 109 @RonovanWrites
RonovanWrites Haiku Challenge 109 with prompt words - Hope, Up With hope, hands stretch up Seeking sky, only to find Air and illusion. ~ FlorenceT © 2016 FlorenceT Copyright reserved. The author asserts her moral and legal rights over this work.
#Haiku Challenge 108 @RonovanWrites
RonovanWrites Haiku Challenge 108 with prompt words - Sizzle, Sleek Mists rise off the land Earth sizzle with the sun's rays Skin sleek a tan sheen ~ FlorenceT © 2016 FlorenceT Copyright reserved. The author asserts her moral and legal rights over this work.
#Haiku Challenge 106 @RonovanWrites
RonovanWrites Haiku Challenge 106 with prompt words - Sing, Flower Its song destructive To only rigid constructs Blooms sway in delight. ~ FlorenceT © 2016 FlorenceT Copyright reserved. The author asserts her moral and legal rights over this work.
#Haiku Challenge 89 @RonovanWrites
RonovanWrites Haiku Challenge 89 with prompt words - Shower, Play Gracious beauty rains Morning light illuminates, Play of butterflies. - FlorenceT © 2016 FlorenceT Copyright reserved. The author asserts her moral and legal rights over this work.
A walk towards change…
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#Haiku Challenge 60 @RonovanWrites
RonovanWrites Haiku Challenge 60 with prompt word - bridge, move I am its stillness Its ripples, the river flows Seasons transitions. - FlorenceT © 2015 Copyright reserved. The author asserts her moral and legal rights over this work.
I love you as…
Who is the beloved?
I come here, as I often do, to fill my senses and to absorb the peace that characterizes this little nook. There is always something to appreciate, and I use this word as it is defined, "to recognize the full worth of", here. I sit on the one weather-worn bench and just be - the… Continue reading Who is the beloved?
Love and Vulnerability
If you can’t smell the fragrance Don’t come into the garden of Love. If you’re unwilling to undress Don’t enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are. Don’t come our way. - Rumi © 2014 Photography by FlorenceT
Winter – a renga
A beautiful young man wrote this and with his permission, I am posting it here. Autumn is over A cold winter voice speaks soft Seeds lie sleeping low. In the morning chill Snow starts slowly falling down On the winter ground. Tangled in the snow Autumn flowers lie dying Like discarded dreams. As… Continue reading Winter – a renga
Grief – a necessary elixir
"There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness.When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a centuries-old tree...their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this water. … Continue reading Grief – a necessary elixir
Female body – a poem
"Should any fool mishandle the wild geography of your body...name it..." Dominique Christian
Living and loving as an introvert
An introvert.. insights through the words of dorkymum. We need our space and our solitude, get it?! 🙂
Dorkymum | Stories from Tasmania
*stands up*
*shuffles nervously*
*clears throat*
Hello. My name’s Ruth and I am an introvert.
Would you believe that it has taken me 31 years to say that?
Most of those years have been taken up with saying other things. No, I’m not anti-social. No, I’m not shy. No, it’s not that I hate people, or that I hate you, or that I’m a badly brought up Awkward Annie.
I’m just an introvert.
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