Places Unknown

Traveling to places unknown 
I depart the station
Going solo though not alone

Bumps and curves thrown
Quite an education
Traveling to places unknown 

Various skills I hone
Gradational transformation
Going solo though not alone

From time zone to time zone
Each stop a celebration
Traveling to places unknown

Love and kindness shown 
Intercultural communication 
Going solo though not alone

Autonomy I own
A sense of liberation 
Traveling to places unknown
Going solo though not alone

W3 Prompt #139: Wea’ve Written Weekly poet of the week, Punam, prompts us to write a Villanelle that includes the word ‘celebration’.

Sadje’s What do you see # 268

Winter Streams

TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge: Haiga hosted by Melissa.

Winter streams care not
The changing of the seasons
Unaltered their paths

Yoshitomo Nara

Link to website of YOSHITOMO NARA The Works

Starily scarely
Yoshitomo Nara
Depicts strong messages 
Through children’s eyes

Cultural barriers
His characters transcend
Identifiable
Emotions stirred

W3 Prompt #138: Wea’ve Written Weekly poet of the week, Lesley, prompts us to write a Double dactyl. Phew, this was a tough one!

Nature’s Playground

Earth
Our home
Magical
Mysterious
Natural playground
Available to all
Step away from distractions
If only to ponder the tree
An undeniable connection
Yet we search elsewhere for what we know not

Colleen’s TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge: Oracle Card Poetry. I chose to write a Classic Etheree inspired by Love of the Earth.

Image © Judy Mastrangelo

Cherish

Ghosts of Christmases past
Visit this season
Memories of love and loss
Joy and pain
Reminding to cherish those 
Who still remain

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Ghost by Sue W and Gerry C

Train Yard

Commercial buildings at the North Carolina Transportation Museum for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge hosted by Dan at No Facilities.

Berating Besty

Belligerently and bombastically she berates her best friend  
Excessively emphasizing her erratic views
Reluctantly she rescinds her repugnant and regrettable rhetoric 
Anger abated and abundant arrogance in check 
Traitorous tangent turns to watchful wonder
Incredibly impressed by her imperturbable friend 
Neutral and nonplussed throughout the nonsensical tirade
Genuinely grateful for her generous patience and compassion 

Berating besty stubbornly persists in behaving badly
Egotistical and embittered she emphatically explicates
Surely she will soon stop and surrender the absurdity 
Ten tumultuous minutes of torturous harangue
Yearning for the incessant yapping to yield

Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #394 – Berate

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For the Love of Pants

For the love of fresh coffee
Clumsy movement while groggy
Spilled coffee beans on the floor
Will get some at the bookstore

For the love of a new book
Out the door for a quick look
It’s at the local bookstore
A release I can’t ignore

For the love of god I pray
Nobody sees me this way
As I rushed from the shower
I forgot to don trousers

Reena’s XplorationChallenge #360

Images from Pixabay

W3 Prompt #137: Wea’ve Written Weekly by poet of the week Michelle

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Winter Skies

Winter nights
Firelight is nice
But those clear starry skies
Outdoors entice
Despite the cold

Eugi’s Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Writer’s Choice*

Brown Thrasher

Curious brown bird
Striking eyes colored yellow
Pops up from the bush
And rests there quite mellow

Back into the thicket
It thrashes about
The shrubbery wobbles
The bird pops back out

It flies to a tree
And a few songs it croons
From a large repertoire
Of improvised tunes

I. J.’s Birds of the Week Invitation XCIV

Brown Thrasher