A thousand imperceptible micro-movements
exist in me.
I reach, shift, twist, turn;
seeking a tenuous glimpse in your light.
And ‘though I wish to stay,
fortune favours ephemeral moments.
By Sarah ©2023
Author’s Note: Written for Ronovan Writes, “Sijo Wednesday Poetry” with the challenge theme of “fortune.”
A muted lens delicately cloaks
this morrow’s wintertime sky.
Cold, pale hands of despair perilously cradle;
holding the air.
Amorphous waves of alabaster;
an empyrean dreaming.
By Sarah ©2023
Author’s Note: Written for Ronovan Writes, “Sijo Wednesday Poetry” with the challenge theme of “embrace,” and also Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge, January pick a topic (fog/mist).
With shrouded skies, dawn creeps past
quietly biding its time
Fingers peel back its nebulous veil,
inevitable this
A quiet interlude
with indefatigable sunshine
By Sarah ©2023
Author’s Note: Written for Ronovan Writes, “Sijo Wednesday Poetry” with the challenge theme of “overcome.”
The stage is set with
the mood lighting anticipation
Scripts have not yet been written
for there are no lines to learn
Whomever the actors
it promises to be a good evening
By Sarah ©2023
Author’s note: Written for Ronovan Writes, “Sijo Wednesday Poetry” with the challenge theme of “promise.”
New beginnings can only come
from another beginning’s end.
The year is wrapping up,
and it’s time to celebrate with friends
– just don’t let the recovery
be a reason to make amends!
By Sarah ©2022
Author’s note: Ronovan Writes has implemented a new challenge, “Sijo Wednesday Poetry.” Sijo is a Korean poetry form which has three lines with 14-16 syllables in each (a total of 44-46 syllables for the poem). The first line of the Sijo usually sets the scene. The second line elaborates on the first line. The third line brings the poem matter to a close. This is my third attempt at Sijo, with the challenge theme of “recover.” My natural interpretation for this word, given the time of year, was having a tipple on NYE and the imminent “day after.”
He offers up his precious token; unaware it lacks appeal.
A prized belonging, the subject of countless games of fetch.
Truly the gift that just keeps giving….and giving….and giving!
By Sarah ©2022
Author’s note: Ronovan Writes has implemented a new challenge, “Sijo Wednesday Poetry.” Sijo is a Korean poetry form which has three lines with 14-16 syllables in each (a total of 44-46 syllables for the poem). The first line of the Sijo usually sets the scene. The second line elaborates on the first line. The third line brings the poem matter to a close. This is my second attempt at Sijo, with the challenge theme of “gift.”
The journey was long, though really, measured only minutes.
I wished I could borrow yet more seconds to whisper again,
How cherished that time had been; over before it began.
By Sarah ©2022
Author’s note: Ronovan Writes has implemented a new challenge, “Sijo Wednesday Poetry.” Sijo is a Korean poetry form which has three lines with 14-16 syllables in each (a total of 44-46 syllables for the poem). The first line of the Sijo usually sets the scene. The second line elaborates on the first line. The third line brings the poem matter to a close. This is my first attempt at Sijo, with the theme of “trip.”
Unfolding. Night creeps.
Aglow, refresh bewitched minds
A piece of sky’s high
By Sarah ©2021
Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Challenge #357 – high and refresh and Mindlovemisery’s Menageries, Photo Challenge #365
plucking up courage
she played her role as captain
oh, to imagine!
By Sarah ©2019
#NaPoWriMo 2019 – Day 29; and also, Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #251 – Plucked and Played
Heroic outlaw
Friction of arrow on bow
Ready for action
By Sarah ©2019
#NaPoWriMo 2019 – Day 23; and also, Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #250 – Action & Friction
Work hard. Shoot upwards.
Fly high over landscape tones.
Pitch into space. Soar.
By Sarah ©2019
#NaPoWriMo – Day 16, 2019, and also, Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #249 – Pitch and Tone
Image credit Pobble365Things that are serene.
Things that paint a playful scene.
Things not what they seem.
By Sarah ©2019
#NaPoWriMo – Day 9, 2019; and also, Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #248 – Serene and Scene
Look sharp and pay mind.
Is the beast within without?
Start prowling in kind.
By Sarah ©2019
#NaPoWriMo – Day Two; and also, Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #247 – kind and mind
This path’s not easy.
Bumpy, twisting and turning
– the ride of your life!
Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #245 – easy and ride
By Sarah ©2019
Hands fly across skins.
A blur of motion and sound.
Drumming circle bliss!
By Sarah ©2019
Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #244 – sound and motion
A loose feather flies.
Childen screaming with delight
Whack! Thump! Pillow fight!
By Sarah ©2019
Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #242 – scream and feather
With grapes from the vine
Add honey, sage and apple
You’ll have one fine wine
By Sarah ©2019
Author’s note: This Haiku was inspired by a wine recipe for white wine with honey and sage, that appears in one of the oldest medieval cookbooks, Tractatus de modo preparandi. You can find and try the recipe here, courtesy of Quarto Cooks
Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #236 – Sage and Vine
Muddying my hands
I dove deep beneath the soil
To grow like the grass
By Sarah ©2019
Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #235 – grass and dove
No more olive branch
The peace dove’s strength has faltered
Offers but dried grass
By Sarah ©2019
Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #235 – grass and dove
Mischief is afoot
Words are cornucopia
So I guard my mouth
Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #232 – Foot and Mouth
Don’t lament the past!
Opportunities exist
only in today.
Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #230 – exist and today
constantly seeking
answers to questions not asked
yet with no resolve
By Sarah ©2018
Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #226 – question and resolve
The days seem so hard.
Nothing makes sense anymore.
I’m too old for this!
By Sarah ©2018
Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #209 – Old and Days
I’m taking the chance
on dreams that feel within reach.
May the stars unite.
By Sarah ©2018
Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #208 – Chance and Unite
under wings I fly
I keep my eyes on my bliss
your brawn can’t break me
By Sarah ©2018
Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, Photo Challenge #219 and Ronovan Write, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #206 – bliss and brawn
under tyrant rule
with our voices united
hope of mutiny
By Sarah ©2018
Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #205 – tyrant and hope
Under wing, no more.
Debris and mess my new home.
The cost of being free.
By Sarah ©2018
Holding broken dreams,
I weep for you as tears fall
through my bloodstained hands.
It’s hard to let go
of someone you never met,
but love so fiercely.
Too fragile for life –
a tiny heartbeat in time.
And then you were gone…
By Sarah ©2018
Author’s Note: A triple haiku, as this week marks the six year anniversary of my last miscarriage and the end of all hope I ever had of being a mother. A fitting choice of words for me, from Ronovan this week? 😔 Must be a “thing” as last year, this very same week, I wrote Bloodline using Ronovan’s words, “miracle” and “save”. Oh what bitter irony…
Prompt: Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #202 – Fragile and Heartbeat
Behind me a beat
vibrates the ground. Think it’s a
party; then look ’round!
By Sarah ©2018
Prompt: Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #198 – beat and party; and also, Olivante Poetry, #NaPoWriMo 2018 – Image 25
dancing in the sun
dusting feet with gold pollen
such honey bee fun
By Sarah ©2018
Prompt: Olivante Poetry, #NaPoWriMo 2018 – Image 17; and also, Ronovan Writes, Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt, Challenge #197 – fun and sun
By Sarah 