
still going strong growing while there's light & water... roots and second chances —lizl, 2o22/o7/24
still going strong growing while there's light & water... roots and second chances —lizl, 2o22/o7/24
This National Poetry Month, 2021, I have had (and still having) a lot of fun writing my poems. Mostly micropoetry, this year. I am thinking about continuing on with the writing for the rest of the evening, and nothing else is scheduled, and so I will watch the words and phrases floating past and catch a few here and there to work with. The Scamper pups have had their evening meal and are now asleep at the foot of my chair. Al is on his way to his favorite café for a cup of coffee, picking up a few things from the grocery store on the way home.
The poems that I have posted during NaPoWriMo 2021 are on my Quiet Spaces Journal: The Written Word at Home.
I am still writing for another three or four hours.
Lizl Bennefeld
a good flea circus
is nothing to be sneezed at…
just don’t bring your dogs
Copyright © Lizl Bennefeld, 2021-04-05.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 352 FLEAS and Sneeze
chittering of squirrels
as they settle into sleep
twilight turns to night
as mockingbirds sing their songs
to stars scattered on the sky
Copyright © 2021-03-22, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Image by dendoktoor from Pixabay.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 350 CHIRP and Twilight
I have other poems and various prose on my Quiet Spaces/The Written Word blog: The Written Word at Home.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 348 FOOL and Head
nodding flower heads
warm beneath the summer sun
dream of autumn days
crickets laze about and chirp
silly songs in cool, dark shade
Copyright © 2021-03-09, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 347 ACHE and Ease
the ease of leaving
everything behind for now
sorrow at the lossforget-me-nots remind me
of your true and faithful love
Copyright © 2021-03-02, by Lizl Bennefeld.
ancestral lands
trees and tall mountains
waves of lightmy heart stills
dreams draw me closer
going home
Copyright © 2021–02–04, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Photo by Warren Sammut on Unsplash.
(NaHaiWriMo, Day 4)
as the years progress
time becomes ephemeral
memories transformanticipation heightens
as fears fade in golden light
Copyright © 2021-01-29, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Image by RÜŞTÜ BOZKUŞ from Pixabay
life in a bubble
warmer than the out-of-doors
quieter than silence
Copyright © 2021-01-27, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash. (Modified).
the dawn comes quickly
lighting clouds beyond my feet
valleys filled by mistsomewhere below, crowds gather—
unseen…unheard…not counted
Copyright © 2021-01-14, by Lizl Bennefeld.
After the end-of-year activities, getting back into the swing of writing through picking images and writing from/to them.
For this year’s NaNoWriMo/National Novel Writing Month, I once again took part, with a small email group, in writing a poem for each day. I posted them on my Quiet Spaces/The Written Word journal. The link below will take you to those 30 poems.
I hope that you will find some that you enjoy.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 330 Cold & Fall
late autumn dusk
quiet settles on the woods
pop of burning logs
cold snows brush the windows
an almost-winter lullaby
Copyright © 2020-11-02, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Photo by WantTo Create on Unsplash
winds of near winter
leach moisture from the garden
turning dirt to dustseeds now dream of spring’s warm rain
safe beneath the leaves and weeds
Copyright © 2020-10-20, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 328 Dust & Weed
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 328 Dust & Weed
beauty among weeds
wildflower seeds and moisture
raindrops in the dustthe sky adorned with rain clouds
nature’s glory is renewed
Copyright © 2020-10-19, by Lizl Bennefeld.
a rippled surface
light dances on the water
fins keep me in place
Copyright © 2020-09-30, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Image (modified) by Breathless Design from Pixabay
smoke and fire
creep across the globe
sunlight fades
and dinosaurs die
chill and all alone
Copyright © 2020-09-17, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Image by Valdas Miskinis from Pixabay
hot ashes
burning in my mind
long lost days
Copyright © 2020-09-15, by Lizl Bennefeld
thoughts of you
no faded pictures
no echossomeone new—
whoever you now are…
wherever
Copyright © 2020-08-27, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Photo by Martin Adams on Unsplash.
time stretches out as
boredom blandly runs its course
towards the end of time
and sedimentation sets
thoughts and flesh in fragile stone
Copyright © 2020-08-26, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Image by Antonios Ntoumas from Pixabay
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 319 Trip&Whip
rain whips my windows
on its journey through the sky
drops burst and fracture
fill the outside air with mist
and leave nothing else to breathe
Copyright © 2020-08-18, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Photo by Sofia Guaico on Unsplash
life is getting thin
no life pie for me, today
guess I’m dieting
the wedges ran together
into piles of gooey mud
this day is ending
but there is still tomorrow
promising more days
with sunny skies and dewdrops
secrets whispered by the winds
Copyright © 2020-07-21, by Liz Bennefeld.
the Pan Clade kisses
homo sapiens and chimps
we have the same needswe want to feel wanted and
need to really feel the love
Copyright © 2020-07-20, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Discussion here: Hominidae – Wikipedia
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 315 Chimpanzee&Kiss
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 314 Finger&Planet
Earth’s windy fingers
riffle through her layered clouds
opening to view
Venus slipping from her path
for a midnight walk with Mars
Copyright © 2020-07-14, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Image by Bruno /Germany from Pixabay
A short poem tiptoed through my mind as I was writing my Weekend Coffee Share blog post for the week.
on a lonely journey
down the crowded path of life
singing my own songI don’t have a solo voice…
wish someone would sing along
[absurdity; micropoetry.]
Copyright © 2020-07-03, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay
safety is not safe
no magic buttons to push
no quick fixes hereneither anger nor logic
but love, charity, and grace
Copyright ©2020-06-01. by Liz Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 308 Anger&Logic
hidden in dawn’s glow
fishing pole, worms in a can
mud between my toesnapkins hold my bread and cheese
old rugs promise midday naps
Copyright © 2020-05-29, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Image by TheOtherKev from Pixabay
riding on the back
of an iridescent snail
the long journey home
Copyright © 2020-02-26, by Lizl Bennefeld.
NaHaiWriMo 2020 Writing Prompt for Feb. 18: wishes or dreams.
Image by Alexandra_Koch from Pixabay
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #290 Jump&Asp
bronze lagoon dragon…
frogs jump from its burbling tongue
to fake lily pads
[senryu]. Copyright © 2020-01-28, by Lizl Bennefeld. All rights reserved.
Substitution: asp = dragon
Image by Ulrike Leone from Pixabay.
morning light
Syrphid’s shadow
wind’s caress
Copyright © 2019-07-14, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Source: Sunday meditation
“Reaching Together for the Sky”
I believe there comes a time—
wakening from doze or sleep—
when mind and body listen
to each other, and
betweenone breath
and
the nextthe mind hesitates,
then says, No more
and the body says,
No more…
and neither
takes that one last breath
“Reaching Together for the Sky”. Copyright © 2017-10-14, by Elizabeth W. (Lizl) Bennefeld.
RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #254 Sweet&Heart
sweetheart roses say
I love you…truly they do—
from your heart to mine
I long to hear your promise
that you’ll always love me too
Copyright © 2019-05-20, by Lizl Bennefeld.
I have idled away my time, while waiting to take my next dose of medication on schedule. I have written one of the three poems I need to complete the 30 poems for April’s Na/GloPoWriMo challenge.
as I slept, the sun
appeared and warmed the ground
I woke to tulips
Copyright © 2019-05-02, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Prompt from Na/GloPoWriMo, Day 29: Write a minimalist poem.
Van Loon’s Lives
plucked from the bookcase—
which role for you?we then might choose the parts we
played and start each day anew
Copyright © 2019-05-01, by Lizl Bennefeld.
RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #251 Plucked&Played
warm winds and raindrops
filling up the tulip cups…
sliding down long leaves
Copyright © 2019-04-25, by Lizl Bennefeld.
night’s soft cloak
sun’s lingering warmth
cloud-clad stars
summer’s breeze is redolent
with scents of sleeping flowers
Copyright © 2019-04-22, by Lizl Bennefeld. Brewer’s prompt …
I found myself considering the sadness of leaves and seeds that fall where they can neither decompose nor have the opportunity to germinate and grow. And so, on a (serious) whimsy, I promised the residue on the garage floor that when I was finished with taking their photographs, there, I would gather up them all and return them to the outdoors, where they may decay, or sprout, and live again.
mourning for the leaves on the garage floor
thrown out in new plastic bags
not renewing the soil
Copyright © 2019-04-15, by Lizl Bennefeld.
I used a kimo instead of a haiku for this haibun.
drawn towards joy
changing of the seasons
gentle warmthquiet melt of winter’s snow
springtime’s gift of sun and rain
Copyright © 2019-04-11, by Lizl Bennefeld.
This poem was also posted to my Quiet Spaces blog: The Written Word at Home.
March comes in as a lion … and April buries the road by which it leaves.
January’s cold
is sharp but somehow peaceful
unlike April’s stormslike cyclones over water
Spring adds fury to its snow
Copyright © 2019-04-10, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Source: April’s Blow on my Quiet Spaces Blog
after sunset
ice reforms on quiet waters
tucking in the warm
Copyright © 2019-04-09, by Lizl Bennefeld.