National Poetry Month--Day Vier--Rictameter--Jesus Christ

 

Today I'm doing a Rictameter. If you're clueless of how to do one, go here. Actually I will have done this in the future and posted it to come up in the past.

 Jesus

Keeper of souls

He waits for us to come

Follow the shepherd to the fold

He weeps when we make choices that sting Him

He has reckoned for our mistakes

Though scarlet now are white 

If we listen

Christus

©2021 by H. Linn Murphy

National Poetry Month--Day 2--Couplets--Following Christ

 

 

Today we're doing couplets. If you want to know what they are and how to write them, go here:

Christ the Lord has ris'n for us

His pathway forward is a plus

He directs our steps in all we do

So we can take that journey through

The rocks and canyons of our day

We need to study, act, and pray

How can I follow at his feet

When all I do is incomplete?

Just keep my eye set on the prize

And I with Him will someday rise.

Though flawed, mistaken, sometimes fearful

We can prevail if we stay cheerful 

I choose this time to pay Him mind

To seek His light, His footsteps find.

Give fear, mistakes, and hate away

Remake me new for a new day

©2021 by H. Linn Murphy

National Poetry Month--Day 1--Lantern Poem--Bloom

 

 

Wow. National Poetry Month caught me off guard. So here's my first poem of the year:

Today it's a Lantern Poem. If you want to know what that is, go here:

Bloom

Fragrant

Color splash

Tiny painting

Flow'r

©2021 by H. Linn Murphy

National Poetry Month--Day 15--Tan Renga Poem--Dog Collaboration

We're supposed to collaborate on this poem. If you're clueless about what a Tan Renga is, go here. You'd think I'd have someone, but my husband is considered necessary, so he still works Outside. All I have is the Extremely Talented and amazingly intelligent and verbose Dogeroo, Sir Riles Barksalot. So here it is:

DOGEROO

Fearless hunter dog

Despoiler of trashcan wheels

Guards our little house

Bark bark whiiiiiiine woof sniff growl sniff

GROWL woof bark whiiiiiiine sniff bark BARK!

(Which means: 

Something's living in the shed

Eating it will make it stop.)

©2020 by H. Linn Murphy

If in the course of the day I find someone human to share with, we'll do another...;) So my daughter joined me for this one:

Run little Gecko,

 

Escape from Riley's sharp teeth, 

 

He's full of dog food,

little dash, sharp eyes follow,

oops no tail, it will grow back.

Natassia Scoresby and Heidi Murphy

And now for something completely and utterly different:

One Blade of Grass

One blade of grass so alone, so small

Insignificant in the scheme of it all

Hardly worth mentioning should it fall

No revelation should it stand tall

But unite it with millions of others

Standing together with sisters and brothers

Being good grass like their fathers and mothers

A verdant sea of soft green feathers.

Together they gladden the eyes and the heart

Filling their measure and doing their part

United, a force, while divided, mere starts

Making the world a little less tart

Perhaps we can learn from the little grass blade 

When we're going through life with our feet and heart clayed

Reach out to your neighbors 'til the dragon is slayed

Apart you're defeated, together, well-played 

 

 

©2020 by H. Linn Murphy