#poetrychallenge - Verses and Hues

24 Oct

Quadrille: Memories

encumbering societal norms weighed heavy on me so I rescinded to hibernate to rationalize my subsistence to feel my roots like waves retracting to depth of ocean then your memories creaked gently in the silence of my heart...

#breath, #creak, #dVerse, #emotions, #feelings, #life, #love, #memories, #nostalgia, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #quadrille, #reality, #reflection, #relationship, #trust

19 Oct

Senryu: Diwali

We are celebrating Diwali in India today. This festival of lights is one of the most awaited and celebrated occasions for Hindus in the country. With people flooding the markets with their innovative gifting ideas, it’s an occasion filled...

#bright, #celebration, #colourful, #diwali, #festiva;, #festival, #haiku, #happiness, #lights, #micropoetry, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #senryu

17 Oct

A Poem is…

feelings… feelings invoke imagination imagination rears thoughts thoughts starve for words words scattered… as billions of stars and galaxies thoughts amalgamate with words words spill on paper a poem is born! happiness orchestrates… makes soul dance soar without wings...

#agony, #feelings, #freeverse, #grief, #happiness, #heart, #imagination, #joy, #life, #love, #pain, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #thoughts, #words

12 Oct

Tanka: Dreams

dreams of yesterday glistening beauty today instilling belief I'm quilling more dreams today envisioning future bliss The post follows the prompt words “dreams” and “beauty” given by Elsie of Ramblings of a Writer for Tanka Challenge Week...

#5lines, #beauty, #belief, #dreams, #future, #inspiration, #life, #micropoetry, #motivation, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #reality, #tanka, #today, #vision, #weeklytankachallenge

11 Oct

Poem: I am your refrigerator

Lillian is hosting Tuesday Poetics at dVerse. For today’s prompt, she wants us to walk into our kitchen and open our refrigerator. Pick something specific that resides in, or on the outside of the refrigerator. Let that be the inspiration...

#appliances, #clean, #cleanliness, #dVerse, #essentials, #fridge, #home, #household, #hygiene, #poem, #poetics, #poetrychallenge, #refrigerator, #rhyming, #voice, #women

11 Oct

Quadrille: Hope

De Jackson of WhimsyGizmo who is a Las Vegan, hosted Quadrille on Monday at dVerse, when we write a poem of exactly 44 words, including a given word. (I know I’m a little late for submission!) In light of the...

#attacks, #confidence, #dark, #dVerse, #faith, #freedom, #freeverse, #hope, #inspiration, #life, #love, #motivation, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #politics, #pride, #quadrille, #terror, #terrorism, #wisdom, #world

09 Oct

Haiku: Mist

golden ball of heat expunges ephemeral mist life effloresces The post follows the prompt “mist” given by Haiku Horizons for this week.

#clouds, #fog, #growth, #haiku, #hope, #inspiration, #life, #micropoetry, #mist, #nature, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #sun

06 Oct

Poem: I lost myself

thunderous waves never plundered my spirits neither hurricane ravaged my vigour dusk never dawned encumbrance for darkness shrouded my existence unscathed by the disparaging world I was wounded only one time but contusions spurn to heal I’ve been in...

#betray, #betrayal, #Courage, #dVerse, #existence, #feelings, #freeverse, #heart, #hurt, #justice, #life, #love, #Open Link Night, #pain, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #romance, #spirits, #wound

03 Oct

Senryu: Dreams

dreams are obsessions winged with belief and vision enriching vague life The post follows the prompt “dreams & enriched” given by Elsie Hagley of Ramblings of a writer for the Weekly haiku-senryu challenge #9.

#belief, #dreams, #haiku, #imagination, #life, #micropoetry, #obsessions, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #senryu, #thoughts, #vision

23 Sep

Haiku: Ephemeral Life

cherry blossoms bloom what an exquisite beauty ephemeral life

#beauty, #bloom, #blossoms, #cherry, #ephemeral, #flowers, #haiku, #haiku horizons, #life, #micropoetry, #nature, #poetrychallenge, #seasons

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