Haiku & Other Poetry – Page 55 – Tina Stewart Brakebill

The world spins around

Bringing a spark of new hope

As fuel for the flames

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I’ve been WP MIA for a couple of weeks. Between the heat and the constant rain and the general state of our world, I’ve been uninspired or depressed or lethargic. “Whatever” has been my go-to feeling of late. Ugh. But I’m trying to lift myself out of it. So thanks to Sue’s beautiful photo challenge for giving me a hopeful image to go along with the spark of hope coming out of Puerto Rico.

I’ll leave you with my title inspiration-Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come.”

Peace.

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Burning in Plain Sight

July 9, 2019January 28, 2020 Tina Stewart Brakebill

as we spin a tale

the beauty of youth turns foul

burning in plain sight

Thanks to Colleen’s Poetry Challenge for the opportunity to shout into the wind about climate change!!

Today’s challenge was to write a poem using synonyms for the two challenge words. I used “beauty” for pretty and and “foul” for ugly.

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Together Alone

July 9, 2019January 28, 2020 Tina Stewart Brakebill

outside looking in

watching you through downcast eyes

forever fearing

Photo by Lisa Fotios @ Pexels.com

Thanks to Kat for this thought provoking image. It’s not my usual micro-fiction Twittering Tale kind of offering but once this thought grabbed my brain, it wouldn’t let go.