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Tag: Life

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Wind Back the Clock

Featured ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Too old to be modern when crafted in the era of free love...

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Sapling

Featured ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

Sat here alone in the tears of not good enough...

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Not So Old Style

Featured ~ Raven ~ 11 Comments

I thought I was an old-style guy With few mod cons helping me by...

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – The Poet and Her

May 8, 2022May 7, 2022 ~ Raven ~ 6 Comments

Dawn comes in hazy yellow shine The pond reflects hazy yellow shine...

#Writephoto – Shut That Door

May 6, 2022May 6, 2022 ~ Raven ~ 8 Comments

That door is closed, that chapter done The time has come to wander on...

Lunchtime Blues

May 4, 2022May 3, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

In the queue while waiting for lunch And hunger invades thought...

Inky Streams

May 2, 2022May 1, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

To say the words of thanks to you, for guiding the pen across the page...

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Into Tomorrow’s Dawn

May 1, 2022April 30, 2022 ~ Raven ~ 5 Comments

Waking up with tears to cry it is dark outside...

Haiku

May 1, 2022April 30, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Form: Haiku falling like the raininto weeping seas of lifethese lessons are learned ©JGFarmer2022

Learning the Day

April 30, 2022April 29, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Alarm chimes in dim light Coffee brewing its might...

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Short

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 ~ Raven ~ 4 Comments

Standing on chairs to get Hard to reach places Of who put it up there...

While We Can

April 10, 2022April 9, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Old friends in conversation About times they both recall...

Haiku

April 10, 2022April 9, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Form: Haiku like cotton driftingthrough the azure summer skiesfleeting memories ©JGFarmer2022

Time Forgot

April 8, 2022April 7, 2022 ~ Raven ~ 1 Comment

As time forgot to let me die, I'm left to age and wonder why...

Haiku

March 29, 2022March 29, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

https://youtu.be/UkekqVPIc2M Form: Haiku a chance comes but oncegrasp it, hold on to the dreamand don’t you dare quit ©JGFarmer2022

First Day Back

March 29, 2022March 29, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

In crocodile line we filed in Summer’s gone and lessons begin As chattering voices catch-up With new pencils and shiny cup...

Hey You

March 27, 2022March 27, 2022 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

Hey you yes, you the guy in the mirror just a friendly reminder...

Haiku

March 16, 2022March 16, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Form: Haiku empty road aheadrelease the throttle and gothe future awaits ©JGFarmer2022

Too Clever by Half

March 11, 2022March 11, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

You, so smart you think you know all that there is You, who can’t be told, can’t learn another thing...

Flow

March 6, 2022March 6, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

A change of place a change of space moving on to a different pace junking the old...

Haiku

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Form: Haiku all energy spentwisely or not it has goneand nothing is left ©JGFarmer2022

Integral Identity

February 25, 2022February 25, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

I am found in all the worst places, where angels fear to tread, I'm denied for the saving of faces, yet without me love lies dead...

Haiku

February 23, 2022February 23, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Form: Haiku fantasy fallingin the lost scented petalsthe roses have gone ©JGFarmer2022

Casting Out

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

With a splish-splash the line sinks with barely a wink and the orange spike bobbles and wobbles...

Headlines

February 20, 2022February 21, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

They say bad news travels in three Good news does it travel at all It’s never on the BBC...

Forgotten

February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Water on tap quenching thirst on demand yet still we complain it’s not enough consumption taking more and more from a world where...

Gift of a Book

February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

I learned to read with Pooh and Piglet tales, And hummed their hums of tiddly pom and snow. I hunted Heffalumps with Tig and Roo, And played with sticks in Hundred Acre Wood...

Haiku

February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 ~ Raven ~ 3 Comments

Form: Haiku a roll of the dicein a random game of chanceand fate plays her hand ©JGFarmer2022

Roll of the Dice

February 10, 2022February 9, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

The path has turned, it’s too late to go straight Yet the destination remains the same When in this life there is no place to wait...

Haiku

February 8, 2022February 7, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Form: Haiku spin out of controlfearing darkness of black icestill driving too fast ©JGFarmer2022

Basic Instinct I and II

February 6, 2022February 4, 2022 ~ Raven ~ 5 Comments

Air: inhale; exhale; breathe. Pulse: living beat, pump oxygen's breath; circulate; energize. Blood: red; protecting; caring; veins searching through body's highways. Existence persists through atmosphere. Breathe: inhale; exhale; poisoned, polluted air...

Haiku

February 1, 2022January 31, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Form: Haiku pondering answerspencil marks of confusiona calmness revealed ©JGFarmer2022

My Way

January 28, 2022January 27, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Making the choices that the self define The desire to live ethnic every day Doing each day as it comes suits me fine Old rules are for breaking, that’s what I say...

Haiku

January 24, 2022January 23, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Form: Haiku feathers chase breadcrumbsin the silent winter sundining done they fly ©JGFarmer2022

Beyond Veils

January 24, 2022January 23, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Closed eyes gaze beyond veils of death In echoes found in sleeping dream The destination in a stream Flowing freely on restful breath...

Spark the Flame

January 14, 2022January 13, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Each lesson learned is one small spark that sets the mark of our flame, Now our knowledge we should share, with no care for love or fame...

Haiku

January 8, 2022January 7, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Form: Haiku swing left then rightquiet ticking passing timehypnotic movement ©JGFarmer2022

Haiku

January 7, 2022January 6, 2022 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Form: Haiku velvet emotionsshadows captured in blue inkclasped in a padlock ©JGFarmer2022

Death Before Dying

December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

As years swept past, old age arrived, the grey replaced his jet-black hair. His eyes of blue need lens to see An aid in ear is placed with care...

Haiku

December 20, 2021December 20, 2021 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Form: Haiku the court is dancingdistant riots cause chaoscastle walls unbreeched ©JGFarmer2021

Haiku

December 14, 2021December 14, 2021 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

Form: Haiku bend to the rhythmpressing weights to feel powerripping muscles tense ©JGFarmer2021

Litter

December 6, 2021December 5, 2021 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

It’s just one can dropping it won’t make a difference someone will pick it up...

Haiku

December 2, 2021December 1, 2021 ~ Raven ~ 3 Comments

Form: Haiku lies hidden in smilesconcealed in voice’s concernyet eyes reveal truth ©JGFarmer2021

Haiku

November 28, 2021November 27, 2021 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Form: Haiku rejoice the small wincelebrate brief victoriesbuild walls of success ©JGFarmer2021

Haiku

November 27, 2021November 27, 2021 ~ Raven ~ 8 Comments

Form: Haiku page cannot be foundcorrupt files and data dumpsthings I cannot fix ©JGFarmer2021

Ticking By

November 27, 2021November 26, 2021 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Days spent in nine-to-five watching the seconds tick by wish time would go faster to the end of the working day and the years pass by in the days of free time...

Diamantes

November 23, 2021November 22, 2021 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Mystery Cryptic, secret Misleading, confusing, eluding Hoodwink, confound; bamboozle, perplex...

It’s Our Fault

November 20, 2021November 19, 2021 ~ Raven ~ Leave a comment

Only the ancient ones recall clear skies And the fluffy white clouds that drift Slowly on breezy sighs....

Alice’s Wonderland

November 19, 2021November 18, 2021 ~ Raven ~ 2 Comments

Sweet Alice she follows the white rabbit whilst tripping through looking glass walkways Not a sister but trapped in a habit she is a lassie of the nightly days...

#Writephoto – It Starts Boxing Day

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 ~ Raven ~ 7 Comments

Bags secreted in cupboards on Boxing Day before Auld Lang Syne has been sung...

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Spenserian Sonnet Notes

Originally posted on About the Jez of It:
Named for Edmund SpenserStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Pentameter or DecasyllabicRhyme Scheme: abab bcbc cdcd ee Example Cherry Blossom by Jez Farmer I see your face before my waiting eyesHow does my pen such beauty thus convey?The cherry blossom floating in blue skiesOutdone, as smiles upon…

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