Haiku

Form: Haiku nature’s melodyechoes between forest treesthe sound of peace ©JezzieGFarmer2022

Memento by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Like a reminder of this life of trams, sun, sparrows,...

Trust the Fish

Two bubble floating upward in the glass Born apart while lovers were the toast...

Haiku

Form: Haiku Helios, Ra, Sollost hope in these hours of nighthail the sun’s first light ©JezzieGFarmer2022

Little Aggie by Marriott Edgar

When Joe Dove took his elephants out on the road He made each one hold fast with his trunk To the tail of the elephant walking in front To stop them from doing a bunk....

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Saw

The queues were so long that day And we stood gulping fear...

Simply 6 Minutes – Time and Space

In ancient wonder I found sacred peace Fair Selene, called my name, I’m not alone...

I, Being born a Woman and Distressed by Edna St Vincent Millay

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind...

Haiku

Form: Haiku in stillness of lightunnoticed the sun draws breathas Solstice bells ring ©JezzieGFarmer2022

Ekprhasis Notes

The Ekprhasis is more about the content of the poem than specific rhyme and meter stylistics. It is poetry written on and/or about other pieces of art Example Majestic Gaze by Jez Farmer Poised, an Arcadian goddessAdorned in luxury and styleBeauty bursting from her bodiceArtist entranced within a smileOutside, a returning empireRestoring imperial daysAs paint …

Inherited Traits

Today I saw her hands echo in mine Delicate creases and an extra line...

Haiku

Form: Haiku once soft under feetdry grass scratchy between toessummer longs for rain ©JezzieGFarmer2022

He Is In There

Hidden secret living with fear Would anyone notice if I wasn’t there...

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – One Foggy Night

Lamps glow amber on the city streets dim hues of orange framed by rolling fog...

Haiku

Form: Haiku autumn acorns fallscattered to be mighty treesfallen to grow tall ©JezzieGFarmer2022

Droigneach Notes

An Irish poetic form, the Droigneach consists of quatrains. Each line is 9 to 13 syllables long but should remain consistent within the poem. Line 1 rhymes with line 3, and line 2 rhymes with line 4. Each couplet should contain an internal rhyme or other sound echoes. The final word of each line should …

Haiku

Form: Haiku candle light flickersa trap, baited and waitinggust of wind saves moth ©JezzieGFarmer2022

Doors of Daring by Henry Van Dyke

The mountains that enfold the vale With walls of granite, steep and high,...

Unravelled String

Romantic desire and images of sensual lust entwined in muddles like tangled string...

Love not War

Your fingers grazing my skin As senses explode like mines...

Haiku

Form: Haiku old gods rolling dicelords of sun or gods of rainwho will play today ©JezzieGFarmer2022

I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed by Emily Dickinson

I taste a liquor never brewed -- From Tankards scooped in Pearl --...

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Biker Dudes

Each year they would say what would like For Christmas and I’d glare at my old trike...

Haiku

Form: Haiku silent dark cornersshielding the delicate growthfrom shadows beauty ©JezzieGFarmer2022

Simply 6 Minutes – Someone’s Fool

Around my heart the wall of shattered dreams Each brick concealing another broken shard...

Haiku

Form: Haiku overloaded platesgloat at children without foodinequality ©JezzieGFarmer2022

Helen by Hilda Doolittle

All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face...

Sunflowers

From seed steep the sun’s tower Keep growing tall, sunflower...

Payback

A mystical doll of magic Yet her intent can be tragic...

Haiku

Form: Haiku life keeps moving onand now is lost in waitinglost biding in time ©JezzieGFarmer2022

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Rio

The one who keeps me going when I can’t And sees through my darkness to see me shine...

Closed Path by Rabindranath Tagore

I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power,---that the path before me was closed,...

Haiku

Form: Haiku his song to the moonechoes across winter skiesfor she knows his name ©JezzieGFarmer2022

Cruel to Be Kind

Where am I blocking my own love from myself?

Haiku

Form: Haiku sweet dusk aromashrouded in evergreen robesher crown starlight white ©JezzieGFarmer2022

What Trees Know

Dreary green waves hustle and rage...

#Writephoto – Island Mist

To shed my tears alone While they all laugh with you...

Haiku

Form: Haiku she’s eager to lovethe dawn rise midday for dogmorning kiss delights ©JezzieGFarmer2022

Head Against The Walls by Paul Eluard

Head Against The Walls1924 There were only a few of themIn all the earthEach one thought he was aloneThey sang, they were rightTo singBut they sang the way you sack a cityThe way you kill yourself. Frayed moist nightShall we endure youLongerShall we not shakeYour cloacal evidenceWe shall not wait for a morningMade to measureWe …

Limits by Jorge Luis Borges

Of all the streets that blur in to the sunset, There must be one (which, I am not sure)...

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Landlocked Pirate

Toes dipping and dangling into clear blue sunshine ripples reflecting like glass...

Haiku

Form: Haiku our mother respondspolluted lungs that cannot breathetime to change is now ©JezzieGFarmer2022

Simply 6 Minutes – Fools and Kings

For the love of the queen he said I should And for her heart, of course, he knew I would...

Haiku

Form: Haiku lightly flushing redreleasing the pain of needa moment of lust ©JezzieGFarmer2022

Goalkeeper Joe by Marriott Edgar

Joe Dunn were a bobby for football He gave all his time to that sport...

Haiku

Form: Haiku revealing breeze liftssoft petals open to the sundelicate the rose ©JezzieGFarmer2022

Sign of Genius

Why am I standing In this room and thinking...

Haiku

Form: Haiku summer stems entwinered and white petals embracedthose roses of love ©JezzieGFarmer2022

Coblynau

The forest path goes To the mine they closed...

Haiku

Form: Haiku pawns battle forwardthe king hides behind his queenknight takes rook – check mate! ©JezzieGFarmer2022