From Read Write Poem - Read Write Image #11 : Photo by: Camil Tulcan Haiku, Senryu & Tanka your earthy face I missed most when skies reflect my gloomy heart beyond the distance feathered...to castles capillaries of oxygen and love still beat in an icy world furry trees in spring, but fine feathers in winter as no bird stays long on a branch to serenade harsh cold hours of lost voice

From Read Write Poem - Get Your Poem On #66 : Topic: Re-imagine your life AND/OR Read Write Word #10 you graft focus onto love mysteries hung on beads around my neck your iron hands grab...linking locks, coveting time to stop ticking underneath swarms of stress-viruses you sow detours over a poorly sewn heart and from them, a pomegranate tree bursts to sudden passion, renewing faith

Because I've gotten busier with school, work, and life, I've combined the three challenges together. From Read Write Poem - Get Your Poem On #62 : I did Read Write Word #8 instead. From red Ravine - Haiku (one-a-day)/Daily Haiku : bog underneath skin bruise of someone faraway (heart)throbs of yin-yang gentle afterglow mischief slaloms through the woods echoes of nymphs' play

From Read Write Poem - Get Your Poem On #60 : Topic: Jump start your new year's writing goals I've written out my writing goals for 2009 already in a previous (personal) ongoing list, so I'll share...per week among all of the poetry websites that I am a part of, so that I could continue writing. It was difficult for me to maintain that last year, but I'm sure I can do it this year. :

(well...okay Regina--I'm doing it, too!  I  am...combined with a photo prompt) in the center of the swirling air I am standing I am the eye can you hear me through the cacophony harshness bending trees tearing limbs overwhelming I am the silence I am asking you to hear me photo: taka by Tres

a nightmare of breakfast dishes caked and parched hardly testify to halcyon days yet a fragile finger of sunlight teases me transcendence through the frosted window warm steam rises if I close my eyes...eyes I can just about see a pair of tree kings nesting calming the undulating water their legendary eggs hatching in halcyon bliss readwriteword 6 and homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Ceyx.html

Somewhere up in the mess of leaves a coal-miner's daughter ran smack-dab into a rum-runner. He took one look at that quiet country girl and built a nest. Don't know where he got his drinking gene-- probably...somewhere ripe enough to germinate; shooting home a tangled clump of roots still craving a cold one. If you look real close-- you can see a nest of empties in the branches. readwriteprompt 58

say a yellow fish swimming with a mermaid I'd have all the answers I'd know for example that mermaids don't school they thrive singularly and extraordinarily I could see that it's strange and a bit problematic...to go upstreaming currents when you're the big fish following all the little flat- eyed ones and maybe I would think that the plump blue fish looks a lot like dinner readwriteimage 5

From Read Write Poem - Get Your Poem On #55 : Topic: Free-for-all Note: I wrote this poem based on this IMAGE HERE . A Faerie's Abode I once loved a blue-eyed creature, his words charmed...of me. And because I looked back, my faerie dust became a pillar of salt, my body no longer real just as my emotions recycled back to things ancient in nature-- the ruins we all keep on revisiting

From Read Write Poem - Get Your Poem On #55 : Topic: Free-for-all Note: I wrote this poem based on this IMAGE HERE . Be careful with what you wish for because you will become it. At first...in a nice sauna-like forest today, never having to worry about fighting for food or my toes getting cold, but now you see me as a strange creature wanting to become something I should have never been