hello!

I haven’t posted here for so long, always leaving it for next week and next week, and now it has been months since I last showed up in this space.

Spring has arrived, but not completely; it is still fighting the winter. We had some snowflakes this weekend.

Catching up on a few things I have done recently:

Long walks outdoors. The river was frozen for so long, and I love to hear the song of the water underneath the ice.

Tulips. I can’t resist and end up buying lots of them. I’m practicing my photography skills using them as a model.

Reading and writing, as always!

Baking delicious and healthy meals. And of course, drinking lots of coffee and tea.

Plants are never enough! On the left my new indoor baby, turtle string, the tiny leaves are so cute. And on the right, tulips are starting to pop up in my garden.

Hope you had a wonderful winter and are enjoying the new season.

Gateway

Enter at your own risk
You can find pleasure
You can find sorrow
It depends on your mindset

Enter at your own risk
The forest freshness
Can bring relief
But can also aggravate your feelings

Enter at your own risk
Each step counts
To be happy again or
To sustain the distress

Enter at your own risk
It’s up to you!

#WDYS

Hover

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in your hands, please hold it tight
believe your mind will take flight
the love exhales discover
allows your senses to hover

Could you guess the subject in this poem?

W3 challenge

II. Mich’s prompt guidelines

  • Form: Tanaga
    • (could be double, triple, etc.)
  • Theme: Love

Tanaga

  • Four lines (a quatrain);
  • Syllabic: Each line contains seven syllables (7-7-7-7);
  • Rhyming: It is usually a rhyming poem;
    • AABB is the traditional rhyme scheme;
    • Variations in rhyme scheme are allowed (like AAAA, ABAB, ABBB, AAAB, ABBA, and non-rhyming)

Pages


Pause
Breathe in
And breathe out
Blank pages wait
symphony of dreams
giving form to the notes
your faithful treasured freedom
jotting down the impossible
Smoothly guiding the pen through the lines
"Pause, breathe in and breathe out, blank pages wait"

Joining David’s W3 prompt:

Sarah’s prompt guidelines

  1. Form: Dectina Refrain
  2. Theme: ‘free’ or any variation of this word

Dectina refrain

  • Syllabic: Ten lines – 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10 syllables;
  • Refrain: The 10th line is comprised of the first four lines all together as one stand alone line in quotation marks.

Sixty-four

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Sixty-four
A number, a message,
Since the start
A breath and wisdom

Unexpectedly
Showing up, erasing the darkness
Harmony and peace
Self-determination

Number of squares in a chessboard
For the game players
Number of nucleotides in the genome
For the scientists

Some say it’s God’s number
Since the Tower of Babel
To I Ching
Present in many mystical things

Bringing light to the unknown

The W3 prompt this week is by Sheila

  • Form: Any poetic form;
  • Length: Exactly 64 words;
  • Must include: the words “dark” and “light” in any form

The number 64 has always been special to me. When I saw Sheila asked for a poem with 64 words I decided to write about the number 64 per si.

This number is present in many natural, mystical and scientific fields. I’ve pointed out some of them in my poem. Hope you enjoy it!

Autumn sunset

Sunset on Oct 27th – no filter applied!
Peacing my thoughts
Before the world darks
I forwarded myself into the light
Believing that magic still exits

I hearted my feelings
For a few minutes
The golden possibled my being
Magnetically

I listened to my intuition
And didn’t science my soul
I let go of expectations
I was sevening again

Joining Moonwashed Musings – the prompt is Magnetic

AND

Joining W3 poetry challenge, Melissa‘s prompt is below. The words I’ve chosen are in italics in my poem.

Melissa’s prompt guidelines,

Verb: a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

Prompt

  1. Write a poem in any form, no more than 40 lines;
  2. Take a handful (5) of the words in the table below and use them in your poem as verbs;
    • You may combine a word with a hyphen and another word that is a verb if you wish.
    • Examples:
      1. I abouted him now more than ever before.
      2. The autumn wind leaf-flooded the road.

Table of words

aboutherselfpeace
becausehighpossible
camerahowscience
carindustryseven
darkitselfsix
despitelatesouth
entiremachinespeech
footmoneytoward
formernicetwo
heartotheryes