She stands
In tattered gold
Tossing bits of amber
And jade, jewels of a year grown old:
November.
~ Zephyr Ware Tarver (1886-1974), "A Queen Makes an Exit," Arizona Highways, November 1971
Autumn colour study
© 2013 Stephanie Guimond, 24"x18", acrylics on watercolour paper
Weekend Poetry Dates are a weekly series of posts reporting on this newbie's exploration of poetry during National Poetry Month (April 2012). See all the posts here.
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"Poetry... is ear candy. It's a blind date with enchantment. It's the first refuge against indifference."
It's the last week! Where oh where did the month go?
I didn't quite write as much poetry as I would have liked to nor did I read as much, but I did read some and I even tried my hand at a few superficial haikus (read: I only followed the 5-7-5 rule, none of the others and I'm now just learning that I counted syllables and not necessarily ons, soooo looks like I just wrote a few really short poems, but I digress...). All of this is more than I'd done in the past several years - plus I posted about it all here.
I'm happy.
I thought I'd leave you with one of the haiku-like poems I wrote following the haiku-based 5-7-5 syllable guideline and a beautiful true haiku by Issa.*
Mine was inspired by a child's reaction to, from an adult's perspective, rather unfortunate circumstances:
Toddler stomps with glee
Father sighs and brushes car
April snow falls white
~ SG
And I leave you with this one by Issa:
Live in simple faith
Just as the trusting cherry
Flowers, fades, and falls
~ Issa
I hope you enjoyed our weekend poetry dates. I know I did.
* I discovered the poem by Issa thanks to a lovely application I purchased for the iPad called Chasing Fireflies. Combining haiku with soothing sounds and visuals, it's a delight to the senses.