Prompt: “Take one of your poems and, in three places, insert a parenthetical comment…” I used only this much of the prompt found at Cuyahoga County Public Library website.
late-spring storm
{by now, I shouldn’t feel surprise}
snow on puppy legs…face…tail
{how did he get snow plastered THERE?}
don’t sit in my lap!
{ah, well! there’s towels}
Copyright © 2019-04-27, by Lizl Bennefeld.
First published today on my Quiet Spaces Journal: Day 27 Late-Season Snow #NaPoWriMo
Prompt for Day 26: Write 10 one- or two-line poems on one subject, however loosely related to the subject. Put them together, arranging and rearranging, and title them as one poem.
An Everlasting Pause
Only eternity lasts forever
Be still and know
There are many mansions
and the perfect one is set aside for you
Passage of time and distance of place…
all is present in the Now
I cannot conceive of a moment of perfection
that never ends or varies
One thing that puzzles me is whether eternity is
a continuity, an instance of existence, or an object of art
Clarity persists in haunting the mind of the bemused
The eternal Here and Now overlooks the ebb and flow
of distance and time, not counting minutes or the miles
Satisfaction is a state of mind independent
of circumstances or the company we keep
Experiencing the tides of now, the gentle inflow and recession
of being and not being
Hypnotized by sensation and waiting for the feeling
to come again
Lost in the eternal pause between nothing more
and everything
Copyright © 2019-04-26, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Originally published on my Quiet Spaces blog, HERE. I used irregular HTML codes, and so the format may not work, here. Will try to get a graphic representation to link to.
RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #250 Action&Friction
action of raindrops
friction of waves on the shore
dry winds across stonenature—micron by micron—
reshapes oceans and the land
Copyright © 2019-04-22, by Lizl Bennefeld.
View my NaPoWriMo 2019 poem-a-day collection in progress at TheWrittenWord.net
sitting on the hill
leaning back against a tree
waiting for a signso long ago, the trembling
that still echoes through the EarthCopyright © 2019-04-19, by Lizl Bennefeld.
‘An Ode to Anonymity’
I live underwater, away from all
there’s a turn in the river
I’m shadowed by its banksthe river’s in my mind
my mind safely sheltered, here…
here I’ll remain to the end of all time
Copyright © 2019-04-16, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Form: kimo and kimo, reversed
The complete Poem and and a larger version of the photograph (with credit) are on my Quiet Spaces Journal: Day 16 – In Hiding: An Ode to Anonymity #NaPoWriMo
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.
unlooked-for rainbows
after clouds whose showers bathed
path and air…and me
Copyright © 2019-04-14, by Lizl Bennefeld.
A “view” poem, Brewer, day 13, Poetic Asides: Writers Digest.
My poems for Day 12 and Day 13 — a haiku and a Hay(na)Ku) — are posted on my Quiet Spaces blog.
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.
ice underfoot
branches bare but for last fall’s leafs
grass of greens and browns
slow turning of the seasons
while nature holds its breath
Copyright © 2019-04-05, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Prompt: Write an animal poem. I have written animal poems for both day 3 and day 4.
Day 4:
puppies at my feet
pine trees swayed by rising winds
yet stillness
Copyright © by Lizl Bennefeld, 2019-04-04
Day 3:
a walk in the garden
snow deeper than me, head and tail…
no rabbits
Copyright © 2019-04-03, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Prompt from Brewer at Writer’s Digest: And today is actually a special day: Two for Tuesday! Pick one prompt or use both…your choice! (1) Write a worst case poem. What’s the worst that could happen? (2) Write a best case poem. Take the worst and reverse it!
death of oceans
anaerobic luminescence
deserts without breathbright colors on the water
moonlight’s dance on silent waves
Copyright © 2019-04-02, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Cross-posted from my Quiet Spaces Journal.
Written for #RonovanWrites #Haiku #Challenge 247 (Kind & Mind) and Cuyahoga County Public Library‘s Read and Write 30 Days of Poetry (What do you hear?)
elements of sound
flowing water far away
growls close at handflowing water soothes my mind
puppy growls scare the birds
Copyright © 2019-04-01, by Lizl Bennefeld.
synonym swap: element = kind
Quilted Poetry 