The Metaphysics of Doubt
In metaphysics it's the rage
to conjure images of god,
like building bricks or light'ning rod,
a piece of wisdom, every page
a homily, insightful, sage.
The mind's a cauldron where a whirl-
ing witch's brew invokes a curl-
ing lip, an empathetic grin,
profound misgivings held within;
the grit which manufactures pearl.
Category: Licks
Stolen
A decima for Ronovan’s Challenge #44. Steal is the prompt word on rhyme line B.
Stolen Every creed forbids such sins. We're taught compassion, not to steal; provide each other with a meal; how heartbreak ends when love begins. Behind the background violins reality is held in check. This mote of dust, this tiny speck of carbon matter tries it's best to do no harm. But, like the rest, we steal illusions, cash the cheque.
Spring
A decima for Ronovan's Challenge #43 with Spring being the prompt word on rhyme line A Spring The transience of bluebelled Spring is like a mayfly's brevity, the spider's tumbling levity when darting to it's capturing. We're, each of us, held on this string, awaiting the incredible rebirthing of the edible; transformative resurgency, fecund sexual urgency of animal, vegetable.
Leisure
A decima for Ronovan's Challenge 42: Prompt word Care on the D rhyme line. Leisure In quietude we stand and wait like Davies hoped the time he dreamt that patient souls are not exempt from understanding; celebrate how looking out can penetrate such mysteries as doing nowt but breathing in and breathing out. So there is time to stand and stare, eschew a life that's full of care, bring quietude of self about. (Note: Nowt is a Northern English dialect word meaning nothing)
Haiku Challenge 342
Ronovan's # Challenge 342 ROUGH and Season Rough pruned in Winter bountiful Summer budding rose for all seasons
Seasonal
A contribution to Ronovan’s Decima Challenge No.41: prompt word Shimmer on the C rhyme line. Linked to the previous Haiku Challenge: Frost and Glint. A technical variation to the Decima form, with the use of half rhyme throughout.
Seasonal Snowflakes like a perfect crystal fill the fields outside our backdoor. On the horizon, see the deer searching for food near this coastal town. We know Winter can cost all our neighbouring beasts a Summer of feeding, as hedgehogs slumber beneath the glinting shards of frost. Will they awaken, be the first to encounter Spring's fresh shimmer?
Frost
Frost
Winter mornings wake
to the sound of glinting frost,
a crackle of white.
A crackle of white,
Winter's symphonic poem,
a season composed.
A season composed,
notes a frozen harmony
prefiguring Spring.
Abridged
For the Ronovan decima challenge No.40: FLOAT is the prompt word on the B rhyme line.
Abridged At Cowes, upon the Isle of Wight, a floating bridge appears to float across the river like a boat. It's a quaint and curious sight, Medina crossed both day and night, a bridge that gets it's trousers soaked, it's elevation now revoked. Reduced to ploughing through the spray to carry cars along their way, how was Saint Benezet provoked?
The Dream
A contribution to Ronovan’s decima challenge number thirty something with the tricky prompt word Contrast on the A rhyme line. Difficult, metrically, I found.
The Dream
It's time to get down on a fast,
eschew all the sins and the treats,
abandon the cakes and the sweets,
slim down, in a dazzling contrast
to the calorific repast
you dulged in for year upon year
swilled down with those gallons of beer.
Break out that old exercise bike,
swim, run and jump, go on a hike,
reducing the scope of your rear...
A Mused Limerick Challenge
Chel Owens latest Challenge is for a Limerick form with the theme of “Resolutions”. She wants them to be funny but not too filthy. That’s a challenge in itself! Here’s my attempt…..
The trouble with trying to be humorous
is that senses of wit are quite numerous.
This nonsense solution,
with a rhymed resolution,
is a punchline that stays unassumerous.