#Poetry Challenge – Tina Stewart Brakebill

a new year comes to florida

January 4, 2023 Tina Stewart Brakebill

Shooting guns.

Exploding stars.

Drunken girls scream woo!

Another downtown Saturday night?

Or the sounds of new year’s mo(u)rn?

fireworks display during nighttime — Photo by Saeed Khokhar on Pexels.com

Thanks to Fake Flamenco’s New Years Challenge which asked us to “write about what the new year means to you.. We will write 5–7 lines of free verse for either subject.”

And to Linda Hill’s JusJotJan challenge I admit I cheated a little and used “stars” instead of constellation. The rhythm got me 😉

Visit their sites for further info and great writing. And Happy New Year y’all.

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

to become transcendent

June 23, 2020 Tina Stewart Brakebill

rising together

yesterday not forgotten

but looking ahead

for the hope of tomorrow

is to become transcendent

rainbow — Photo by Frans Van Heerden on Pexels.com

Thanks to Colleen and her Tanka Tuesday Theme Prompt. Visit her site for details and great writing.

My tanka was inspired by current events as well as the provided theme: A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

“…Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time…”

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

best part of waking up …

April 18, 2020 Tina Stewart Brakebill

finishing the grind

as the kettle starts to sing

practice makes perfect

closed book beside french press and mug — Photo by Lisa Fotios on Pexels.com

In honor of NaPoWriMo, this haiku is an ode to one of life’s small pleasures. For me it’s making our morning coffee. I love the whole process from grinding the beans to pushing the plunger on our French press. It’s an art and a science that never quite produces the same taste.

And as it sometimes happens, Linda’s SoCS prompt of “practice”was a perfect splash of milk to complete my thoughts. Thanks!

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

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.