MOTHER AND CHILD SOMONKA

  I give you my heart Where you can always be home Wherever you go I sing you a lullaby Calling Heaven to your soul Burn into my heart A picture of this moment I am wrapped in love Whatever my future brings Your image, I remember ~~~~ Linking with DVERSE’ SOUL GAZING Prompt.

BELOVED (for WPC)

Last week’s challenge, Beloved,   brought to my mind my  husband and children.  The photo above shows my youngest playing with his toy colander.  He loves cooking.  Each morning, he would dutifully take out the skillet, cooking oil, and spatula from their respective storage places and put them in my cooking area.  He would help scramble

LOSS (for Jilly’s Half-a-poem challenge and WPC: Elemental)

Moon, lost in orbit looking for its sun, I am a gaping silence devouring your memory an altar of your absence   I am participating in Jilly’s Half-a-poem Challenge by writing the first part of a Somonka.   A somonka is a type of Japanese poetry framed in two tankas. It has love as the

SONG

The wind calls your name I do not know what to say My eyes have run dry but I always sing your song while I tend to the flowers Your song is the dew refreshing my parched spirit in this lonely place may the heavens hear your voice, grant me deliverance. ~~~~ This is a

STAY

The overcast skies drive autumn away too soon I’ll hitch on its tail that I can leap towards spring where warmth never fades Don’t chase after warmth. It will come to you. Seasons change. Be as you are. Even the coldest winter will thaw in your heart’s summer.   ~~~ The short holiday break stole