Poetry Month by Red Room Poetry #30in30
Red Room Poetry are the organisers of Poetry Month and in August 2022, they provided 30 writing prompts for three line poems for 30 days.
I joined the challenge and here are my contributions.
If you would like to see the writing prompt for each poem, please click on the date link as it will take you through to Facebook where you can see the writing prompt, my poem, the engagement it received and some of the other entries (it was also run on Twitter and Instagram).
I started making contributions on 2 August 2022 and you can see them below.
The three of us
Together
Again
Radical responsibility
Ethical acceptance
Logical living
Going out bush
Never been before
Wishing for more
Take what resonates
Leave the rest behind
Sort in your very own mind
Between ground and sky
Here I am searching
For my way to fly
Body, mind and soul
Emotions kept on hold
Which of these is the most bold?
If I could truly be
What falsehood
Would you not see
Words escaped
That moment of dread
But the look on their face described all unsaid
Art
Is in the heart
Of all that I start
Trees and birds
Rustles and chirps
Blue sky above, heaven on earth
Where I live
Right now is home
Temporary resident, I roam
God may shrug
And wonder why
But never, ever, say goodbye
Anger is signal
Waiting to be
Seen, heard and dealt with
The Dance of Anger, Herriet Lerner
Waves and ways
Water flows
Life sows
Lavender outside the window I see
Bees working hard
I watch and be
I can’t believe it
That was so good
An independent report will prove it
Don’t shake your head at me
My strength you cannot see
That is my beauty
Katharine Hepburn
Even in concrete
Plants find a way
To shine and stay
My older brother
Why do I feel him
When I can’t see him
I sort my thoughts in words
My dreams in pictures
And my love in poems
Overlooking the bay
The mountains I see
Blue and bluer mystery
I spent a lot of time in 2016 at Clifton Springs (near Geelong Victoria) writing…and loved the colours of the bay and the sky and the You Yangs in the distance
In the hospital
A new mother
Joins the sisterhood of life
Cancer cells undetectable
Amazing news
How wonderful
Spoken versus unspoken
Choice versus option
Love’s motion
So when its time to go
You open the door and go whoa
What’s the first thing you say?
Generosity in all things we share
Love shows that we care
Let’s dare
Look for the lines of truth
Look for the lines of pain
Bask in the glory of all you’ve gained
Welcome back
It’s been too long
Rest in my rhythm
For your house is your home
Where your soul rests
In the harmony of your hearing
For freedom from fear
Of stormy seas
And broken hearts
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