Haiku

to London town

in babbling conversations

of new beginnings 

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

the repeat episodes 

we wrapped up in pain

old reels in a can

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

a matching pair

of shared memories and dreams

now he walks alone

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

sunrise to sunset 

another day passing by

and time heals all

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

written in the stars

clusters of fateful words

what’s your sign?

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

demons of fate wait

beneath the azure ripples

then gone for lunch

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

rushing water

caressing weeping willow

and silence remains

© JG Farmer 2013

Words at the Weekend 16/17 November

The idea of the challenge is to use any one or more of the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem.

For the weekend I am going to give four prompts that can be used individually or together depending on how the creative juices flow. There will be a single word with its definition, a word bank, three phrases and a photograph – all are random so may not connect in anyway but as is the way of randomness they may connect in the creative thought – you never can tell!

This week’s prompts are:

Photograph:

Rail Bridge Reflection by David Dalziel

Word:

Bursiform
Pronunciation: (BUHR-suh-form)
Meaning: adjective: Shaped like a pouch or a sac.

Phrases:

• law of love;

• fairy lullabies;

• happiness the hard way

Word bank:

scissors; RSVP; might; ball; campaign.

.

If you create something please link back to here

Haiku

potential

hidden in depths of slumber

as the sun goes down

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

gathering dust
silent figures stand and stare
at brick-a-brack


© JG Farmer 2013

Beyond

The wheel turns
around
and as I lay dying
I will not be crying
in the quest for eternal light
at the journey’s end
where my fingers reach out
to where she is waiting
always she is waiting
to take me home to rest
so love can begin again

© JG Farmer 2013

At Sunrise

Photography by Al Forbes

The sun stretches across the silken drape
In dawns of awareness there’s no escape
A breath of life in the darkness of sleep
With the sensual arousal of a dream
As confused euphoric tears gently weep
For the love that has come to find its voice
In the disarray of a world of change
As the past confounds in misinformed choice
With futures where all things seem new and strange
In new beginnings thoughts and dreams exchange
The ways that delve beyond deeper than deep
As the art of love takes a different shape
Acceptance replaces the panicking scream
And the soul of love once more can rejoice





© JG Farmer 2013

Prompt: : http://kattermonran.com/2013/10/19/weekly-photo-challenge-what-are-hue-looking-for/

Haiku

ancient thoughts rising

into the warming sunset

of dark frontiers

© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

still pools reflect

upon a floating bloom

then fade in ripples

© JG Farmer 2013

Monday’s Masterpiece 11 November

The idea of these challenges is to use the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem

Today’s challenge is to take inspiration from a work of art and write from it.

The masterpiece choice for today is:

Dark Night of the Soul by Alana Lake

View more of  Alana's work at:

https://www.artfinder.com/artist/alana-lake/

Please leave a link in comments or pingback if you join in the challenge

Haiku

lost hues

captured in crystalline

and the mind’s gone

© JG Farmer 2013

Summer

I watched you chase the shadows out to sea
while we played in borrowed time
against the odds we felt the summer sun
in those hazy days we thought we had won
the prize of life
of love
I heard your laughter trip across the waves
and dared to dream the impossible
unable to face the inevitable
saying goodbye
but it came anyway
so now I treasure those summer days
precious and free
when I held you
and you loved me.

© JG Farmer 2013

Dedication:

For my beautiful Gabbie
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Interpretations

Thoughts of love in random images
displaced yet making sense
in the randomness of dreams
a touch
a word
but are they the same
and what do they mean?

Deepest terror in a wedding dress
as the heart leaps from joy to fear
and a kiss becomes the venomous bite
of love
and hate?

Complex confusions
as opposites interact in chaos
and the mind jumps to another dimension
where all is lost in waking up



© JG Farmer 2013

Haiku

whispering blades

lost in the mowing of men

silence remembers

© JG Farmer 2013


Inspired by:

Haiku

lightning streaks

as a bough falls from the oak

and thunder claps

© JG Farmer 2013