after-school softball stretching out for a pop-fly... grass stains on my slacks
Copyright © Lizl Bennefeld, 2022-07-19.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 419:: Grass and Stain
vast winter landscape
the blinding glare of the sun
snow goggles or masks
[senryu.] Copyright © 2022-01-24, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Photo by Daniel Lincoln on UnsplashRonovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 394 GLARE and Mask.
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
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge CCCII: Bat&Cat
mosquitoes swarm through
thick pussy-willow branches…
bats dine out in style
rising mists enhance the mood
faint shadows dance to moonlight
[tanka.] Copyright © 2020-04-20, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #301 Cake&Steak
steak for lunch
caked with seasonings
nicely rare
[senryu.] Copyright © 2020-04-15, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Image by Bruno /Germany from Pixabay
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #295 Elate&Hate
quiet elation
peaceful days and simple joys . . .
leave no room for hate
[senryu]. Copyright © 2020-03-02, by Lizl Bennefeld.
All rights reserved.
Image by Ali Vidler 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.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #284 Wicked&Mundane
when evil’s mundane
and lies outshine facts and truth
good deeds count as crimesCopyright © 2019-12-17, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Substitution: Evil for Wicked
Image by Angeles Balaguer from Pixabay
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #276 Smoke&Water
fire and water
lightning fills a breathless sky
the world ends in smoke
A senryu. Copyright © 2019-10-22 by Lizl Bennefeld. All rights reserved.
lines on a page—
the poem wrote itself…but
it doesn’t take photos
Copyright © Lizl Bennefeld, 2018-05-22 (rev. 2019-08-31). All rights reserved.
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
Tone it down, there!
Pitch-and-Toss ain’t meant to be
a bloody shouting match!
A senryu, copyright © 2019-04-15, by Lizl Bennefeld.
RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #249 Pitch&Tone
RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #241 Storm&Fierce
fierce voices rage against gathering storms…
too late, now, to change their course
Copyright © 2019-02-18, by Liz Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku #Prompt: Storm and Fierce
RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #240 Do&Say
personal or otherwise
say-to-do ratios tell their own tales
Copyright © 2019-02-15, by Liz Bennefeld.
Quilted Poetry 