Showing posts with label Phoenix Rising Poetry Guild. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phoenix Rising Poetry Guild. Show all posts

Monday, March 9, 2015

Where Does Time Go?


I hear people ask often, 'where does time go?!' No one seems to know...
The little fellow above that dashed through the door on NewYear's Eve is over a couple months old already! (I always look for this guy's cartoons in our local paper;)

Different Strokes; different folks. Phoenix Rising continues its look at rhyming...so I tried to incorporate internal, slant, near and perfect rhyme into this piece.

Where do you go, oh ether flow of gripping gossamer
The fabric of your free-fall fills us all with awe, kind sir
To touch you is like clutching at the shadow of a tree
Your essence undeniable, your presence none can see

The kiss of you can turn the hue of raven tress to gray
You tip your hat as That-and-This is sealed in Yesterday
Yet in your deft dispersal no rehearsal or rebuff
Can ever full prepare us for the farewell of you, love

Where, as you pass through our glass, is your ageless repose?
The resting place of moment-grace nobody truly knows
Its ilk of silk can bilk the heart until quite unaware
We earn the slow-burn of your hard-learned no-return Affair

Where do you go, kind sir and tell me then, why do you haste?
As seasons smile, still all the while you rile our Touch and Taste
With what we know we cannot slow; your sheer and sure demise
Veils hurricanes where lifetimes wane before our very eyes

© Janet Martin

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

For Those WhoThink They Drink Too Much... Ink





Eventually we hit a funk
Both Muse and magic go ker-plunk
‘I think I thunk too much’, Thought growls
Word-drunk on consonants and vowels

Janet~

Having a little fun with Phoenix Risings Reason for Rhyme Thyme, oops I mean, theme, of the week;-0

Wanna play?
Huh?
Eh?

Sunday, March 1, 2015

Rhyme-Time!




In March Phoenix Rising is going to explore the Reason for Rhyme...hurray!!;-)

Sometimes rhyme can distract and lull
The reader from experiencing a poem in full
I’m sometimes a rhymer when I’d rather be
Free-spirited, free verse, conformity-free
But something within seems to grin and say
Come here, my darling and rhyme, rhyme away

Janet Martin

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Loving Beyond Feeling



Phoenix Rising invites us to explore the sound of love; the sound in emotion...


On some days
The love she feels
Morphs into a monster
As something
Foreign reels
Ferocious as love,
These fork-tongued foes
Remind her
She cannot simply rely
On what she feels,
But knows

How is it, velvet touch
Can turn harsh
As scratches on chalkboard
And what she thought
She knew of love
Mocks loud
Where demons lord?
To simply rely
On feelings shows
How little of love
She really knows

© Janet Martin

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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Mon Amour





Greedy, garbled, gluttonous game
Want wastes words, barters with blame
If love loses its first flame
Lusting for self-satisfaction
Sorrow slips from fingertips
Forgiveness forges friendships
Laughter lavishes love’s lips
With ‘Mon amour’ attraction

© Janet Martin


...invites us to try this prompt; 
Sounds of love CACOPHONY and EUPHONY.