Tanka Tuesday 26th November

 

struggles and blessings

supply of silver linings

needed by us all

we need to hoard them when times

turn bleak and  dark storms prevail

FRIDAY WRITINGS #154...Poets and Story Tellers United

 SHADORMA

neglected

lonely old people

too many 

die alone

in this cruel society

our eternal shame

CINQUAIN

why not 

give them great care ?

it's not cost effective

they've reached their use by date so it's

sod off

Whats Going On....Say It With Flowers

 you always said it with flowers

your beautiful photographs

gracing our walls

you are still with me

but have left me as well

now but a mere shadow

of your former self

the cruelty of age

and its spear carriers

shows no mercy

TANKA TUESDAY

SHADORMA

 butcher bird

 aussie favourite

 beautiful

 sweet song bird

something to cling on to in

this sad troubled world

FRIDAY WRITINGS....POETS AND STORYTELLERS UNITED

while the world crumbles around us

the magnificence

that humanity is capable of creating

still shines through

if man

is made in the image of God

then this music and performance

is certainly a testament to that

Deo Gratias

R.Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto in A minor

 

TANKA TUESDAY....WHATS GOING ON

 takes me back to youth

 starting out in woodwind land

 wide eyed ingenue

 twas the golden oboe age 

all gone now makes me too sad

Friday Writings # 152

CINQUAIN

 oh no

don't hold your breath

tough times awaiting us

four long years are looming ahead

good luck

there was a guy so weird

who goosed the statue of liberty

without fear

he said god chose him 

cos he was the best

as millions of americans

seem to attest