Showing posts with label the RYŪKA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the RYŪKA. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

the RYŪKA...(this form of poetry has no title)



Today Poetic Bloomings challenges us with a form called the  RYŪKA. First I was a little dubious but it turns out to be quite 'more-ish'. Wanna try?

the RYŪKA.

Fear mocks in cold and bold attire
But He, above life’s tearful care
Is there: higher and greater than
Mankind’s despair: gentle, the Hand
That some misunderstand and hate
But God is great and He is love
While man debates vast galaxies
Beneath His whispers move
(8-8-8-8-8-8-6)

© Janet Martin

the RYŪKA.

Velvet vespers tickle trees
Waft, silk-soft, aloft
Clothed in mist-mauve benedictions
Over dusk’s stilly croft
(7-5-8-6)

© Janet Martin


the RYŪKA

White caps stun green sweeps
Robin rogue protests
Spring's crest of crystal confusion
A snow day in mid-May
(5,5,8,6)

© Janet Martin