A bright day
Smile
delight
all around,
illuminating joy
brought into a sometimes gloomy and gloomy world.
Each of us must do whatever it takes
to spread good cheer
They have given us
today.
Smile.
(NOTE: This poem is written in double tetractys format. A tetractys is the following syllable pattern:
1 syllable
2 syllables
3 syllables
4 syllables
10 syllables
A double tetractys is as follows:
1
2
3
4
10
10
4
3
2
1)
Violet vision
The violet tint of sunset sends shadows
Against the winding climbing vine
as if to reach the vast range across the horizon.
As I cut flowers for the inside vase,
Wish I could take the vibrant hues from the sky
Before they fade and lay them down
somewhere more than a mental sight,
somewhere where the vision can be mine
forever and ever, to be pulled out of storage
whenever I wanted to contemplate, enjoy.
But unless Mother Nature dips her brush
in the exact colors once again – unlikely,
the painting that I appreciate now will be
a long-gone wandering thought, a memory.
Flowers on the wall
I feel watching
blindly
in the flowers climbing
until
the wall, grabbing the bricks
with vibrating creeper tensor tendrils through a tenacity
endless.
The touch of vivid violet contrasts
against the dull and monotonous stone,
while the green leaves
light up the darkness of the shadow
as the sun turns its way into twilight.
Too soon the flowers will die in the dark
because my eyes will no longer see
once the light disappears for another night spell
no flowers seen.
(NOTE: This poem is in the form of Pi poetry. Sixteen lines are made up of a specified number of words per line:
3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 9 and 3.)
Oklahoma Summer
Steamy breezes churn
Summer heat through the land
Dry, thirsty and parched.
(NOTE: Traditional haiku has three lines with the following syllables in each: 1st line, 5 syllables; 2nd line, 7 syllables; and 3rd line, 5 syllables. The topic is supposed to be about nature. It is often found a contradiction between the first and third lines.)
Signs of spring
Red and yellow spots
scattered
all over the lawn today
bring smiles
And longing for spring to hurry up and stay
Tulips brighten up the last of winter.
(NOTE: This poem is written in Archimedes’ Pi poetry form. The form has six lines with the following pattern of words per line:
Line 1-3 words
Line 2 – 1 word
Line 3-4 words
Line 4 – 2 words
Line 5-8 words
Line 6 – 6 words
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