stone – penned in moon dust

Bulgaria #haiku

June 11, 2016June 11, 2016 by moondustwriter, posted in carpe diem haiku kai, Haiku, Photography

sails browned by age

ancient are her treasures

footprints set in stone

The haiku prompt at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is Bulgaria

Feel the Stone #haiku

June 29, 2015 by moondustwriter, posted in carpe diem haiku kai, Haiku, nature, Photography, Poetry

birchand stones

eyes long to touch

spring rain fills the earth’s cup

her long finger caress

There is something about a smooth stone that draws the eyes and the fingers to palpate the pulse of the smooth stone.

This haiku in response to the prompt at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Castle #haiku #poetry #photography

October 7, 2014 by moondustwriter, posted in Home

castle entrance

a place to dream

fields catch the whispers of spring

castles in the sky

set upon a hill

eagle’s keen eyed defense

memories under stone

posterized castle door

Photography of Castles in England and Wales

The prompt at Chevrefeuille’s Carpe Diem Haiku Kai – Castles

Stone Cold #poetry #pen

February 18, 2014February 18, 2014 by moondustwriter, posted in horror, Pen of the Damned, Poetry

you whispered a story

deep in my ear

things

I’d rather not ever hear

fantasy

a bow about my heart

had screamed and tugged

torn me all apart

Imagined I

dark beasts and worlds

spiraling flames

that burned and curled

now the very thing

I dreamed

was the place I awakened

in a frightful scream

leave me not

no more alone

for in this grey reality

I awoke a stone

Please join me today at Pen of the Damned where my prose grew from this poem.

pen of the damned

Awaken Me #poetry #photography

February 4, 2014February 3, 2014 by moondustwriter, posted in Photography, Poetry

a new year 035

I lay here

cold and solitary

life passes by

I too inert to cry

Free once

to laugh and sing

formed of sinew and bone

I now a mindless stone

“Where do you go?”

I call as they pass

you eddy and whirr

I dream to momentarily stir

no use

I never can drift

with a meaningless sigh

once again I close my eyes

This poem is symbolic of my blogging state today. I am frozen and for some unknown reason can’t change a post I needed to reschedule. So I, like the stone, watch the words go by and I have little control.

Lonely Flower #haiku #photography #poetry

October 22, 2013October 22, 2013 by moondustwriter, posted in Haiku, nature, Photography, Poetry

Striving Alone

dead the stone grass

no home for me

(this photograph and haiku led to the Villanelle below)

Striving all alone

none can understand

I lie here as a stone

you hear not my pain’s groan

faint lifting of my hand

striving all alone

stripped clean like a bone

winter fell upon this land

I lie here as a stone

love I failed to own

life sifted like the sand

striving all alone

cold cannot atone

dark heart they call you man

I, silent as a stone

death has called me home

relieved of golden band

strived this life alone

I lie here as a stone

This “Little Ones” episode is about the Burmese poetry form ‘Thanbauk’. It consists of three lines of four syllables each. Traditionally, they are full of humor. It also has a rhyme in it. The rhyme is on the fourth syllable of the first line, the third syllable of the second, and on the second syllable of the third.

X X X A
X X A X
X A X X*

The highly structured villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The form is made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain. The first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poem’s two concluding lines. Using capitals for the refrains and lowercase letters for the rhymes, the form could be expressed as: A1 b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 A2.

Carpe Diem’s freestyle prompt Lonely Flower