As leaves on the breeze
Gentle winds blow through the trees
Leaving me at peace
Take a few moments and freeze
as we are feeling at ease…
-AAA 12/09/2024
Leaves On The Breeze
Category: Tanka (Rhyming)
Upbeat
Spring back like a ball
Bounced against a rock hard wall
Always give your all
No matter how far you fall
Positivity’s your call…
-AAA 12/05/2024
Three Things Challenge #888
Your three words today are:
DIVIDE
DERISION
COLLISION
Bullied
So much derision
Collusion or collision
Divide and conquer
Innocent or different ones
Could be your daughter or son.
-AAA 11/24/2024
New Poem Forms
Special thanks to my collaborator on this Rengay, Missy Daugherty
http://madmissywork.blog
Learning poem forms
It’s a challenge and it’s fun
Here I go again
These rules have me on the run
Count eight syllables or ten???
-MAD/AAA 11/19/2024
Patience Is Golden
Special thanks to my collaborator on this Rengay, Missy Daugherty
http://madmissywork.blog
Patience is golden
Patience is one of a kind
Many things can come
If you loosen up your mind
Many new things you will find…
-MAD/AAA 11/19/2024
Three Things Challenge #883
Your three words today are:
DEJECT
REJECT
SELECT
Rejection Then Inflection
Don’t feel dejected
Because you weren’t selected
We’re all rejected
Which cannot be corrected
Then feel somewhat inflected…
-AAA 11/19/2024
Tonight’s Our Night
Warm heat in the dark
You are near me like a lark
Your lips are the spark
Surely, mine find their mark
With some warm places, they’ll park.
–
There’s no need for fright
As tonight will be our night
With stars that shine bright…
-AAA 11/15/2024
Morning Boost
Special thanks to my collaborator on this Rengay, Missy Daugherty
http://madmissywork.blog
Yummy breakfast meal
Start to your day quite ideal
Day fuel with appeal
Aids in healing the brain, heal.
So ideas can come ideal
-AAA/MAD 11/09/24
Three Things Challenge #871
Your three words today are:
BOUNCE
OUNCE
ANNOUNCE
I Must Bounce
I must now announce
It’s about my time to bounce
I don’t care an ounce
Life with you I renounce
Opportunity, and pounce…
-AAA 11/07/2024
Santa Ana’s
A blustery day
Oh bother, it isn’t May
It is November
Not August or September
It’s a Santa Ana day…
-AAA 11/06/2024
Three Things Challenge #848
Your three words today are:
WARLOCK
WITCH
CRONE
Halloween Delight
Witches and warlocks
Dancing throughout the night
While ghosts and ghoulies
Boogie with the crones on sight
It’s a Halloween delight…
-AAA 10/14/2024
Three Things Challenge #840
Your three words today are:
CRUMB
NUMB
THUMB
I WAS DUMB
Your love, a mere crumb
Eight long years under your thumb
Deep inside you’re numb
These revelations were glum
For trusting you, I was dumb…
-AAA 10/07/2024
DETERMINATION
Get back on that horse
Which, violently bucked you off
Forward, stay your course
As the others laugh and scoff
Realize, you’re making a choice…
-AAA 09/29/2024
Three Things Challenge #832
Your three words today are:
RETRACT
DETRACT
SUBTRACT
SPEAK FROM YOUR HEART
Nothing to retract
Positive words don’t subtract
Nor do they detract
Rather, these words do attract
Making a happy impact…
-AAA 09/29/2024
SILENT
Answer no questions
Just stand quietly and still
No stress or tensions
Atop this high breezy hill
Nothing said or a mention…
-AAA 09/27/2024
Love Will Always Win
Special thanks to my collaborator on this Rengay, Missy Daugherty
http://madmissywork.blog
Hate will never win
As love undoes all its sins
Knowing that, we grin
Together we will begin
In our hearts, love grows within…
-AAA/MAD 09/24/2024
Citrus Adventures
Special thanks to my collaborator on this Rengay, Missy Daugherty
http://madmissywork.blog
Lemon lime and ice
Carbonation is quite nice
Refreshment entice
All it needs is a slight spice
Make sure it’s not overpriced…
-AAA/MAD 09/24/2024
Three Things Challenge #827
Your three words today are:
SHRINK
BLINK
RINK
NOT A GREAT ROLLER SKATER
Age 9 at the rink,
I’d hold the on side and shrink.
Trying not to blink.
As skaters went, I did stink.
And it drove me to the brink…
-AAA 09/23/2024
Three Things Challenge #M823
Your final three words for this week are:
ASSURE
LIE~
DECEIVE
SPIN ME LIKE A TOP
Your reassurance
A regular occurrence
Lies are lip service
You intended to deceive
Assuring that I’d believe…
-AAA 09/20/2024
Selfish Shellfish Shindig
Shellfish are selfish
Deep below the blue waters
Soon delicious meals
Eaten by countless otters
Along with the moray eels…
-AAA 09/17/2024
Damsel in Distress?
Damsel in distress
Or a damsel in a dress
Differently express
One in need, and one needless
I contemplate and digress…
-AAA 09/13/2024
People Fade Away
Conversions fade
When there’s nothing else to say
People do as well
As relationships decay
Then everything goes to hell…
-AAA 09/13/2024
Manipulated
I laid on my bed
Resting my strained weary head
For things that were said
Also, for being misled
Hanging on by thinest thread.
-AAA 08/28/2024
Contentments
My life can’t be beat
I live in pineapple street
A pleasure to meet
The sun’s warmth on my head feels sweet,
Nature’s embrace is so complete…
-AAA/MAD 08/06/2024
Your Own Lane
Stay in your own lane
Or else you will go insane
With unneeded pain
Less drama isn’t so plain
Far healthier for your brain…
-AAA 08/05/2024
Heavenly Night
Stars are dimmed by light.
Mister Moon is out tonight.
A beautiful sight.
Everything tonight is right.
Definitely worth the flight…
-AAA 07/24/2024
Pursuing Dreams
Pursuit of our dreams
Isn’t easy like it seems
Like catching sun beams
It’s tedious and takes means
For there are no in-betweens…
-AAA 07/15/2024
Mutual Amazement
Tell me something new.
About the amazing you.
What you love to do.
After you’re thoroughly through.
I’ll share my amazing too…
-AAA 07/10/2024
Breaking Cycles
Life will serve you pain.
Over and over again.
But it’s not in vain.
You have the scars and their stains.
Get off this circular train…
-AAA 07/09/2024
Time Never Pauses
Time keeps ticking by.
Any faster and I’ll cry.
I wish I know why.
Collecting myself, I try.
Then say a simple, “goodbye”.
-AAA 07/09/2024
Lady Faithless
Who’ll get hurt today?
Lady Faithless makes her play.
Good souls turned away.
Evil has led her astray.
One day, in karma she’ll pay…
-AAA 07/05/2024
Desert Fun in the Sun
In the desert sun.
We can have a lot of fun.
Wear sunscreen a ton.
If you don’t you’ll be well done.
Which wouldn’t be any fun…
-aaa
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