Coming home to daddy, Poetic Blooms #55

Poetic Blooms #55

Coming Home To daddy And see him leaning on the kitchen sink Focused Washing dishes To see him arrange them neatly On the drier rack To see him Look at me with that amazing love I can’t help weeping for

Just coming there In my every dream And [...]

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Potent, Poetry Jam

Poetic Jam – Blind

We see afraid to look so blind in our desire to be potent

© 2012 Mariya Koleva

Image taken from the prompt site

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Here comes the blues, more of Day 4

Because this is the Poetry Writing Month, we should get poetic and poeming all the time, not observing days, boundaries and strict prompt requirements.

So, here is my answer to the prompt set by NaPoWriMo.net – write a poem that sounds like a blues song. It was a great pleasure:

4. NaPoWriMo.net – Blues song 

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Visit to a magnificent place, 50% discount

A poem about someone’s visit to a magnificent place: Poetic Asides – Visitor’s Poem and Being Poetry – Describe a magnificent place, then count the words and reduce them by 50%

[Notes: 1. It is a Sijo. 2. The second variant is reduced by 50%]

*** Below the azure sky rises a blinding rocky peak, Breath-taking with [...]

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Endurance, haiku

Haiku Heights #112 – Endurance. This may be a senryu, honestly speaking

 

endurance will

molest the brave of heart till

their final fall.

 

©  Mariya Koleva

Photo by: HMS Endurance Crew on their Antarctic expedition 1915

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Miracle, Shadorma

OSI (One Single Impression) #212 – Miracle

And do you recall the rules of the Shadorma?

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When I need

a blissful moment,

I only

look at you -

the bliss I find to bathe in.

Miracle.

©2012 Mariya Koleva

 

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Vietnam, Acrostic

 

Acrostic Only, March prompts

#ATW – Vietnam

V elvety, elaborate I   dive. E arth shaking T o collide N ot far A bove those M ornings after.

© 2012 Mariya Koleva

Image courtesy: 2mko excursions

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Finding – Nov PAD, Day 4

November Poem-A-Day Challenge, Day 4 – a poem about finding something unexpected:

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I roamed in darkness desolate And thinking tones of heavy thoughts. I closed my eyes and there it was – a coin shimmered down the gorge.

I blinked to see adventure there My eyes no longer shut And not a coin, but [...]

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What else won’t wait? – more of Day 7

I suddenly realized that…

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November never waits for you It goes on, flies, relentlessly ignoring your deficiency of muses your tired eyes, that “second best” you’re doing.

November come, November go The one and only NaNo’s over, And so is Nov PAD

Well, ain’t that sad?

© 2011 Mariya Koleva

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“Expecto Patronum”, or

 

the Impossibility of the Impossible

We Write Poems gave this as a prompt for this week:

Guardian Angel

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I wish I could stand up,

reach out with my wand

and say proudly: “Expecto Patronum!”

I wish HE would appear

in the form of bright light

to guard off whatever I [...]

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