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I was just wondering if anyone on KP still write poetry and/or haiku’s? I was wondering if you wanted to talk about them, share them and critique them for each other! Just let me know!
I write poetry! And songs, which are basically poems with a melody.
Actually, the next part in Little One’s Journey will involve one of my poems, sort of like how J.R.R.Tolkien puts songs and things in the Hobbit and LOTR and also how Hannah Hurnard puts songs and poems in Hind’s Feet on High Places.
I write poems occasionally! 😀 My more recent poems are better than some of the ones I wrote like two years ago. XD
Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende
Sometimes I write prayers as poems/songs:
Thank You Lord that I’m no longer
lost as to my future
or hopeless as to my past.
the pain, terrors, fears and failures I thought would last
instead have melted away
in the light of the rays
of Your wondrous grace
and mercies new with the dawn.
Or little devotional thoughts:
When in the dark, lost and still void,
I lived for my flesh, but was annoyed
That other people didn’t live for God
And lived in unrighteous fog.
No moral compass to guide their way.
How could they be so bad… but, wait.
Who was (and am) I to judge ’em?
I wasn’t, either, listening to holy nudging.
But glory be to the God who has saved me
And day by day is working to rearrange me.
He’s given me a heart transplant, transformed my mind and my soul,
taken a useless broken vessel and fixed me to be full.
The thing with heart transplants, or ones of any kind,
Is your natural cells don’t wholly accept ’em; they fight.
Lord, be strong in my life, don’t let my flesh win out.
Bring the victory over fear, sluggishness, and doubt
Glorify Thy name and raise my life anew
Bless me in the valleys, by Your strength I’ll make it through.
Kill my flesh, put it to death; Lord, please make it die.
I can’t murder it on my own, no matter how I try.
Grant me wholly a heart holy like Thine
And in Your grace continue Your work to refine.
And when I look at others’ lives and the sin they have to face,
Let me be as You to me, patient with love and grace.
I need to work on not mixing my metaphors so much and also my freestyle rhythm and assonance are sometimes a little janky. But the Lord has placed in me a love for words and it’s so fun to string them together!
What poems have you written?
Those poems you wrote are amazing!! I would share some of mine, but I have them all saved to my moms computer which we packed away. I like to write about nature, people and basically everything! My most recent poem was for my neighbors, when they moved I gave it to them and they cried. It was all about how much of an impact they made on our neighborhood and how much they will be missed. Ill share that one when I can find it. 🙂
There is one poem that is taking a huge place in my book, I did not write it but found it online. I dont know who wrote it though…
When I need a reminder that God has truly blessed me,
I look at my friends and family
And know at once that they are a blessing indeed, and proof that
While I may not have been given all I want
I have all I really need.
I do write poetry occasionally. Usually ideas come to me at the most random times. The most recent one I wrote was about lost friendship. I can share it if you want!
He must increase, but I must decrease.
Yes, please share it! I would love to read it!
Ok! Here it is! Feel free to critique it as needed. This was written very hurriedly because I was supposed to be making lunch…but I knew if I didn’t write it down I’d loose it. 🙂
To the Friend I Once Knew
Years have passed since we’ve been in touch
The friendship we shared has faded,
Drifting into memories I envy so much,
Our exchanges are now belated.
Once we were friends and letters flew,
Passing each other through post
Our eagerness to hear something new,
Sailed from vale to coast.
Those special years of in between
Childhood and growing up
Were filled with fun and kindness keen,
Innocence like buttercups.
And then one day I wrote my last
Pages of words to you,
Unaware of the upcoming fast
The season of absence new.
No envelope came winging near,
Empty the mail box stayed.
I understood and waited here
Until my patience frayed.
Unknown is now our paths again
Just like when we first met.
Maybe someday, our roads will mend
Until then, I can’t forget.
Something about your eyes, your smile
Is seared on my memory.
If we can’t meet in life’s long mile
I hope in eternity.
He must increase, but I must decrease.
Wow! That was really good!
@acancello I do!! Poetry is such a fun genre to explore, not to mention it’s satisfying to write something short you can actually finish… unlike my novel WIP… 😂 Here’s one poem I wrote semi-recently from a prompt.
For My Sake
Because you never did teach me how to French braid
Because I’m counting on you to be my maid of honor someday
Because you still haven’t tried sushi
Because who else will I get to sing karaoke at the top of her lungs with me?
Because of the hundreds of thousands of stars we haven’t counted
Because I will always have secrets to tell you
Because you will always be on my mind
Because I haven’t told you enough how much you mean to me
Because I don’t want to imagine life without you
Please,
Fight to live
@felicity WOW that was so good!! I’ve had friendships like this and I feel like you captured that scenario so well. If that’s what you write in a hurry, the results of when you take time to write must be spectacular 😉-
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
@felicity I loved that!! (Ahh why do all the best poems come to mind while you’re in the very midst of doing something?!)
@starshiness I love yours tooo!! 💕This is my most recent one to complete (I’ve started and not finished 5 in the last two weeks due to poet writer’s block🤦🏻♀️)
My Impossible
March 21st, 2023
I was caught up thinking of Gods wonders and the story of Balam and his donkey who speaks when he’s to curse Israel and God makes it into blessings and the enemies don’t clue in that when Israel is blessed the first time perhaps they still won’t be cursed the seconds and third time too…My God is one of impossibles
He’s the one of living miracles.
He turns curses to blessings
And through hardships joy He brings.
The filthy grimy life He washes clean
The rusty bits He sands until they sheen.
He repairs the broken soul
And He makes it fully whole.
He turns scarrs into beauty
He turns bitterness to joy.
Curses become blessings
And the mourning one sings.
He causes the lame and cripple to stand
And He takes His lost children by their hand.
By Him the forsaken are adopted
And hungry souls are forever fed.
He takes outcasts and makes from them kings
And to the wicked, judgment He brings.
He crumbles the highest of walls
And at His voice time itself stills.
He wins battles with pots and trumpets
And His servants tear up city gates.
He gives children to the barren womb
And He raises dead men out of their tomb.
He makes a valley of bones into an army
And from the chains of bondage He sets people free.
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - Gandalf
@felicity @starshiness @elanor
Those are all amazing! They each are so beautiful and they paint a picture and are meaningful! If you have any more, please share! 🙂
Awh, your poem is so good! I can picture all the friendship and love. You said it was from a prompt. Is it inspired by one of your friends?
I love your poem! I too love thinking about God’s blessings and His ways of coming on the scene and bringing transformations.
This is based off of Deuteronomy 8:2-3
Journey on and don’t forget
the One by Whom you’ve been led,
the One by Whom you’ve been fed
Wand’ring in the wilderness.
Remember the road marked with tears
Yet held year to year
by your Guide Who loves you dear
Journey on and don’t forget.
Up and through and by and with
In dark storms or peaceful bliss
Down and out and up and in
He’s trustworthy; don’t forget.
@elanor Thank you!! Your poem is beautiful as well; what a joy to be inspired by the attributes of our God and create poetry from it in our meditations!
@janellebelovedpig Thanks! 😊 Well kinda! I’ve never had to lose someone close to me or have a friend who had to “fight to live” in that sense, but the prompt this grew from was “give someone a reason to live.” This scenario came to mind and I did base some of it on my personal relationship with my closest friend who happens to be my younger sister! She does still have to teach me how to braid, she’s def going to be my maid of honor, and she is the only person I’ve ever felt comfortable belting songs with, etc. 🙂
@acancello Aw tysm!! Sure, why not, here’s a simple free verse that was inspired by one of my fav classics, Anne of Green Gables 🙂You’re invited
to take a stroll
with me down
Memory Lane
Let’s off on one
of our old-time rambles
Through the forgotten passages
of years gone by and
Let’s stop for a moment and
Remember the bliss
of a day and a time that seems
not so very long ago.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
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