dusk has passed moonlight and shadows puppy snores
Copyright © lizl bennefeld, 2022/12/19.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt
#Challenge 441 GLOW and Night.
Image: “Scampers, Asleep”, lizl bennefeld, Photographer.
waterdrops crest of ocean waves rainbow light
Copyright © lizl bennefeld, 2022/12/17.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 440 CROWN and Drop.
Image: “Rainbow Waves”, ©2012 by Zach Frailey, Photographer.
clear night sky looking at the past time's at rest
Copyright © lizl bennefeld, 2o22/12/o5.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 439 CLEAR and Rest.
Photo by André Ulysses De Salis: “Across the Night Sky”.
we are who we are at the moment...in this moment ephemeral each unique, ever changing becoming more of what we'll be
— lizl bennefeld, © 2022-12-01.
Winds of Change by NASA Goddard Photo and Video is licensed under CC-BY 2.0
winter winds sing out fairies gather on the hearth and dance in the flames
[haiku.] Copyright © 2022-11-28, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 438 FABLE and Fire.
Photo by Stéphane Juban on Unsplash
clouds of stars myriad lights and cosmic dust the endless void
[haiku.] Copyright © 2022-11-22, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 437 FATE and Pleased.
Image: A Cosmic Tarantula, Caught by NASA’s Webb
clouds on the water
Copyright © 2022-11-17, by Lizl Bennefeld.
pathway to the stars
wavering of distant lights
empty promises in an artificial world leave now—don't go back
[senryu.] Copyright © 2022-11-16, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 436 EMPTY and Revive.
Another poem, written to this week’s prompt words.
feathered clouds strands of crystal ice breathless wind
Copyright © by Liz Bennefeld, 2022-03-07. All rights reserved.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 400 FEATHER and Whisper.
It has been a long time since I wrote this poem, but it is one of my most favorite among those I have written in this century. (I may write another to this prompt, but for now I could not resist the repetition.)
Gift your muse quill pens
and bid her feathers whisper
love to your belovèd
Copyright © by Liz Bennefeld, 2015-10-26. All rights reserved.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 400 FEATHER and Whisper.
awake early
four hours of sleep…enough
to embrace the day
the quiet hours before dawn
the vast oceans of thought
[tanka.] Copyright © 2022-01-24, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Image by Xuân Tuấn Anh Đặng from Pixabay.
the heart of the storm
willow branches sweep the ground
bending with the windscattered chairs left abandoned
as the party moved inside
Copyright © 2022.01.11, by Lizl Bennefeld.
“spring-willow” by JeremyOK is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
burnt remains
an old house on a hill …
not forgotten
Copyright © 2022.01.05, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 391 BURN and Old.
brightly burning logs
their warmth and warm memories
old loves…no regrets
Copyright © 2022.01.03, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 391 BURN and Old.
Photo by Craig Adderley on Pexels.com
the crowded hours
long days and longer nights
all the lonely years
where are the dreams of childhood?
where a pathway leading home?
[gogyohka.] Copyright © 2021-11-08, by Lizl Bennefeld.
no signs or symbols
some questions have no answers
what begins will endsunrise comes to greet each day
bright clouds or looming darkness
Copyright © 2021/08/23 by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 372 QUESTION and Sign
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay
young to old
flow and ebb of life
forever dreamsthe push and pull of moonlight
eternal ocean lullabies
Copyright © 2021/08/16 by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 371 PULL and Push
Oddly, I don’t seem to have an image to go with this. It’s late at night, once again, and again I am at my keyboard, the dogs at the foot of the bed. I like this time of the night because everything around me has come to rest…except for me. I appreciate the quiet.
Good night!
Lizl
thoughts and second thoughts
present themselves past midnight
choices made in hastewords spoken and unspoken
Copyright © 2021/08/09, by Lizl Bennefeld.
might swap places if they could
Obscuring the Moon
a screech-owl’s call
distant echoes in the dark…
a scratch at the door
rising winds rustle the leaves
as clouds erase the moon
Copyright © 2021•08•03, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 369 SCRATCH and Screech.
a gull floats
above golden waves
evening swim
Copyright © 2021•07•26, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 368 GOLD and Swim
jazz notes in the dark
send me back to memories—
when our world was newone more kiss…one last caress
’til eternity with you
Copyright © 2021•07•19, by Liz Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 367 NOTE and Send.
The image at the top of the page is by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
intertwined branches
create a web of shadows
weaving dark with lightscattered clouds and glowing stars
mirrored in a breathless lake
Copyright © 2021•07•12, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 366 WEAVE and Web
puffed-up summer clouds
urged along with breezy sighs
bask in morning’s light
Copyright © 2021-06-29, by Liz Bennefeld.
morning’s flower fly
who lands on tender petals
promises new blooms
Copyright © 2021•06•28. by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 364 TENDER and Who
chirping cricket choir
winds sing pine-tree lullabies
nestlings … fast asleep
Copyright © 2021•06•21 by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 363 CHIRP and Sing
dusty desert winds
yacht race on a dry lake bed
the drag of the sail
Copyright © 2021•06•14. by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 362 DRAG and Dust
dried-out earth
blue midday flowers
sunrise dew
Copyright © 9 June 2021 by Liz Bennefeld
weeping willows sigh
as nature’s wind and raindrops
hammer at the roofin the home hearth, embers glow
with memories of your love
Copyright © 2021•06•07 by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 361 HOME and Weep
wills-o’-the-wisp float
through the damp and misty air
searching out pathways…
sights that you don’t want to see
tracks down which you should not go
Copyright © 1 June 2021, by Liz Bennefeld.
#Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 360 AIR and Wisp.
mix of dark and light
lines lend themselves to nature’s
ever-shifting art
Copyright © 24 May 2021, by Liz Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 359 LINES and Mix.
white anthers adorn
the flower’s golden center
and blue-petaled framethe simple joys of springtime
between the warm, gentle rains
Copyright © 22 May 2021,
Liz Bennefeld, writer/artist
yellow clings to hope
Lizl Bennefeld, 2021–05-03
white tulips ask forgiveness
red vows endless love
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 356 RED and White..
Image by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay
wrap yourself in quiet
put sadness aside
look past pain to joydeep rivers carve their way through stone
falling tears both heal and burn
[micropoem]. Copyright © 2021-04-27, by Liz Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 355 SAD and Thrill
Photo by Alex Williams on Unsplash
if my mind were not to form my thoughts as poems
i would speak in song
Copyright © 2021-03-29, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
light caught in a cup
the glow of tulip petals
at the sunbeam’s end
Copyright © 2021-03-24, by Lizl Bennefeld.
childhood memories
green pastures and climbing trees
the cow’s rasping tongue
Copyright © 2021-02-06 by Lizl Bennefeld.
(NaHaiWriMo, 2021)
Image by Robert Jones from Pixabay
so many forests
where I’ll never walk again
fading years and dreams
videos of springtime rills
photographs of mountain streams
Copyright © 2021-02-05 by Lizl Bennefeld.
(NaHaiWriMo, 2021)
Photo by Timothy Eberly on Unsplash
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 326 SCORCH & SHADE
scorching fury of
midday sun and cloudless skies…
the broad cliff’s shadethe song of laughing water
as it bubbles from the spring
Copyright © 2020-10-06, by Lizl Bennefeld.
well met in laughter,
our parting shall be joyful—
lighten all our daysmay the memories we cherish
be with us to time’s end
Copyright © 2020-08-11, by Liz Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 318 Meet&Part
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 312 Intent&Thought
intentive timing
with close thought to ways and means
leads to sanityavoid the crazymakers
concentrate on moving on
Copyright © 2020-07-01, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Heading north, toward home on a puddle jumper in ’78 during hurricane season, the myriad stars below shining upward from rain-flooded fields. The plane landed, it seemed, at every airport along the way.
hurricane streamers
fade into clear black skies
raindrop mirrors show
heaven echoed in their wake
on placid new lakes below
Copyright © 2020-06-19, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Quilted Poetry 