Towering over,
ill placed egos swell with pride
while victims cower
suffering from their birth rights
subject to fearful hate crimes
In response to weekly prompt (hate and pride) challenge #45 here: https://butismileanyway.com/2017/08/08/colleens-weekly-poetry-challenge-45-haiku-hate-pride/
Be in the moment
Allow yourself to focus
On what’s important
Those problems, tasks and burdens
will wait for your attentions
Glamorous it seems
from the eyes of a young child
taught to cover up
~
Accentuating
their natural-born beauty
artistically
~
Sashay Shante, Queens
Sis’ of Perpetual Sin
spreading awareness
2012 AIDS Fundraiser
Last week, I stumbled upon the below site hosting weekly Haiku prompts, and thought fun. This week, I decided to give it a go by using the words as the title with 3 different views in the form of Haiku.
RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #161 Painted&Lady
Three purple pansies
Caught running wild
Dehydrated and frolicking
Out in the midday sun
Wearing nothing but foliage
A magnificent green
Bringing out their violas
Looking a bit shunned
Until I poured them some
Rehydrating the fun
Excuse me
do you have the time
to scribble another
senseless line
of purple prose, and
stuttering rhymes
standing in line
buying time
fighting lines
wasting time
losing your
mind
A gentle breeze walks
Through my spirit, whispering
A canticulum
Freeing the atrocities
Constantly plaguing my soul
~Tanka
The creatures go bump in the night
Causing a fright
Peeking one eye
Trying to hide
White knuckles clinging to covers
Body shudders
Frantic heart beats
For lurking beast
Watching and anticipating
Speculating
One’s very fate
From growing hate
-Minute Poem
