Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Issa/writers digest 2019 April PAD Challenge Day 3 -- poets united midweek motif/writing poetry --imaginary gardens with real toads

Issa/writers disgest  2019 April PAD Challenge  Day 3

Light gray
Like first rays of morning
A little pink nose
And whiskers upon his face

He has his own cat door
So that he can come and go
As he pleases
Outside is his cattery

Last night he came in
In his mouth
A little mouse
Black and white

He released him
And let him dart about
Said, Look Mom
And I can keep him

He retrieved the mouse
And out he went
This morning
Again, he came into the house

With a mouse
He is good at catching
But I would rather
He play with the mouse outside

April 3, 2019

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Writing Poetry/poets united  midweek motif


Writing Poetry

Writing poetry
A leap of faith
For we know not
The source of the last one

Or if it will come again
Each write an exploration
An experiment
A blank sheet of paper

A mind equally blank
No thoughts
To write about
Only a beginning

A new morning… or mourning
The western sky grey
Reflects my mood
I count the hours…

The days…
The memory faithful
Early days of summer
Honeysuckle in the air

Soon enough,
It will be fall again
The memory persists
The number eight

Fishing on a sunny day
The empty chair
The last time
A memory

Poets United/Writing Poetry
March 30, 2019

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Sleep Doesn't Come Easy/imaginary gardens with real toads


Sleep Doesn’t Come Easy

I do not know
Cannot say
Sleep doesn’t come easy
For me

Perhaps I have a condition
A malady
I shut my eyes
They pop back open

So, I stay up
Until I must go to bed
Get some rest
I know this isn’t good

For goodness sake
The late hour finds me awake
When I do go to sleep easily
I call that a successful day

April 3, 2019










8 comments:

Susan said...

Wow! I thought the kitty was the poem! ANd then you wrote another with a different start than the Pink nose, but I added the pink nose to the list of beginnings. I love the sense of being there with you and the blank page. I, too, often don't know where the beginning (and the rest) comes from.

Sherry Blue Sky said...

I love the image of that little pink nose, then following him in and out with his trophy mouse. LOVE the poem as leap of faith. You are right. It IS! And the not sleeping.......familiar. I usually wake in the night for two or three hours to read till I get sleepy again. Sigh. Only once or twice a year do I sleep all night.

Priscilla King said...

I can relate to the cat scene! (Please consider doing your own "troll patrols" so Blogger doesn't ruin your blog with Captchas!)

Myrna R. said...

Three wonderful poems. Your muse is awake, though you cannot sleep. I like the idea of the blank page as a beginning that does not know where, how or when it will go then end. Enjoyed all three of these Annell.

Carrie Van Horn said...

All three are a delight to read Annell. I especially loved the Writing Poetry poem.

Susie Clevenger said...

Yes, three wonderful poems. I so love the cat one. I am away from my cats at the moment and I miss them. What a lovely poetry buffet you given us.

Old Egg said...

What a glorious trlo of poems Anneell. Cats think they rule the world not us! Okay you are a poet by presenting three poems instead of just one to entertain us.

Gillena Cox said...

Luv the 'Leap of Faith' one cannot be timid with the nudge of poetry

much love...

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