Rationalize your gathering
Realize the same, but different
Person you’ve become at the end
Stage beyond moments mourned as the
Little deaths of you take their time
Beyond your need or benefit
Flow and ebb – move like an ocean
Economize your emotion
Downsize disorder, be ready
Make way, keeping means to your end.
Written for #downsize prompt @WeeklyPrompts, discovered via Sadje @KeepItAlive. Follow the prompt link for participation guidance; follow the latter for more prompted poetry!
Windstorm warnings sound
dusk to dark: tornadoes bud
down shelters
Rainwater’s morning
dawn uncovers damage done
new buds color scene
Featured original photo by C.E. Price via PIXNIO (CC0)
Written for Naturalist Weekly‘s mini-season/micro-season prompt to write a haiku or senryu that references buds or young plants—via Goff James Art, Music, Phototography, Poetry, and Quotations.
Our volatile sun
elemental brother
we’re in awe of you
your fiery upsets outshine
our greatest eruptions
No great flood could touch you
We cannot meet, even halfway
You intensely contribute
under duress, your energy
formation’s brunt within
release your stores
our warmth, water, standards
Our escaping world, which
eventually could outrun
Your extended, warm hold cuddles us
while your stalwart presence pushes us
away hot / cold
Sustenance, you bring us up
through your incompetence
We survive, perhaps dread the day
you may catch up; we admire your suggestive
Waving through our shield, casting
Aurora’s colorful shows; we adore
not without warning
Written for “Thursday Inspiration #185 ‘Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me‘“, via newepicauthor. Visit the link for participation guidance.
Featured Image: photo by Kaique Rocha via Pexels.com
“Ode to the Sun” is the 2nd draft of an original poem written in August and posted to Life Poetic on Aug 21, 2022
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