Poetry Practice

Last year I was preparing to teach a class on writing and decided to do some practice to "limber up." Poetry really is a great way to exercise your writing skills. I should really make myself write it more often.

Relativity
(Triolet)

The year is short, the day is long

And hours move in stately dance.

How does time write its shallow song?

The year is short, the day is long.

The month comes slowly then is gone

Yet weeks speed past at just a glance.

The year is short, the day is long

And hours move in stately dance.

Sunshine

(Haiku)

Little cat sleeping

White belly turned to the sun.

Is she solar powered?

Blessing

(Sonnet)

I dance upon my Mother Earth

The bare rock throbbing ‘neath my feet.

I turn my face to heaven’s hearth

And let the Sun’s light set the beat.

Slowing now, I take a seat

Beneath her tree with branches wide.

With quiet song the Moon I greet,

To gentler face I turn my eye.

I lift my arms to Mother Sky

And feel her breath upon my bones.

In sheltering arms my spirit lies;

In her embrace my soul is home.

Earth and Water, Fire and Air

Mother, bless my spirit here.