Uncompromising
snow-filled landscape separates
survival from love.
With loyalties divided,
is this artwork or story?
By Sarah ©2017
Author’s Note: This painting is from the Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tomaki. This is the information plaque about the painting, from the gallery.
Prompt: Ramblings Of A Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 67 – Landscape and Artwork
Image credit Dylan Collette
As consciousness sinks,
and subconscience reigns supreme,
the terror begins.
There’s no beauty in my dreams.
One day I fear I won’t wake.
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings of a Writer, Weekly Tanka Challenge, Week 66 – beauty and dreams
Surrounded by crowds,
valiant gladiators
fight until the death.
All that remains, a whisper;
ancient Roman history.
By Sarah ©2017
Image credit By Sarah ©2017
Author’s note: ‘Il Colosseo’ is the Italian name for the Colosseum (or Coliseum). It is also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre and is an oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy. Built of concrete and sand, it is the largest amphitheatre ever built. It is situated just east of the Roman Forum.
Prompt: Ramblings Of A Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 64 – surrounded and history
Seductive. Playful.
A furtive glance, then eyes lock,
hinting at promise.
Bestowing a coy smile just
to leave you wonting and cold.
By Sarah ©2017
Image credit Pixabay
Prompt: Ramblings Of A Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 63 – playful and cold
Ready for some fun.
Nothing but friends, and the wide,
open road ahead.
Images in the rear view,
Mirroring fond memories.
By Sarah ©2017
Image credit anja.
Prompt: Ramblings Of A Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 62 – mirror and fun
Image credit Maxime Bhm
A budding artist
brightening the streets with
colour explosions.
What bad luck – a blocked nozzle!
His final touches thwarted.
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings of a Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 61 – explosion and blocked
Image credit Barbara Florczyk
Her only comfort,
as the rain falls around her,
– a canopy’s space.
She dreams of a time to come,
when the tears will flow no more.
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, Photo Challenge #178; Ramblings of a Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 60 – space and dream
Image credit By Sarah ©2017
Holding his lady.
Married seventy-five years.
On deathbed he lies,
vows honored until the end.
A portrait of love, endures.
By Sarah ©2017
Author’s note: This piece is dedicated to my nanna, 95 years old, and my grandfather “Bill” who passed away in June 2015. They had a truly remarkable and inspiring love; married more than 75 years! I can’t even imagine the bond they shared. Nanna claims he still visits her every night in her dreams, asking her when she will join him 💜💙💚
Prompt: Ramblings Of A Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 59 – portrait and lady
life is a struggle
and survival sometimes means
the wisdom to know
when you’re clinging to branches
that may really be fences
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings Of A Writer, Wekly Tanka Challenge, Week 58 – survival and life; Our Write Side Ink, The Darkroom – Hey, Squirrel
Digging up the soil.
Mounds tell of something buried.
Naughty animals!
Time for walkies the next day;
Where has my other shoe gone?!
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings Of A Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt, Week 57 – soil and animals
Eyes closed to darkness
I lay my weary head down
Dreaming of what ifs
But these are only realised
When awake is the new sleep
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings of a Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 56 – awake and sleep
Image credit By Sarah
Sometimes the right path
hides in the dense undergrowth;
asking to be sought
and dragged into clarity.
But when it finds you? Magic!
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, #44 – hunt and find (I have used synonym ‘sought’ in place of hunt)
she locked them away
those secrets she told to moons
as they waxed and waned
it mattered not those pages
in her notebook were foretold
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: The Syllabub Sea, Haiga Heaven, Challenge 32 – foretell
Image credit Pixabay
Image credit Pixabay
The energy builds.
White hot temperatures rise,
seeking their release.
Bolts crackle from the sky and
spread as flames across the earth.
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings of a Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 55 – energy & temperature
Image credit MKA Photography
He punishes her.
A blush heats her face. Confused,
she bows her head low…
knows she’s still bound to him but
aware it’s unravelling.
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, heat & confuse and, Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, Photo Challenge #175
maintaining the home
with everything in its place
meeting family’s needs
domestic goddess by day
dreams of running wild by night
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings Of A Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 54 – domesticated and wild
Image credit http://reylia.deviantart.com/
though I may roam wild
through the deserts of despair
rain shall drive my calm
creating joyful music
strangled by the whitest hope
By Sarah ©2017
Prompst: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, Photo Challenge – #174, AND, Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, wild & calm
there are some roots you
don’t want digging in too deep.
sitting in the chair,
waiting for the extraction,
be true…for my wisdom teeth!
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings of a Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge – Week 53, roots and wisdom
ensnared and hopeless
a life hangs in the balance
struggling to break free
what fun the spider creates
when designing his new web
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings Of A Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 52 – life and fun
twenty five children
each one valued and nurtured
with no teacher’s pets
a classroom, a family
helping each other to learn
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings of a Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 51 – family and pets
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