April 2016 Challenge Day 27: Respite

Respite
Taking a break
Walk on a country road
Recovering my peace of mind
Leisure

April 2016 Challenge Day 12: Replete

Glutted
Stuffed with fast food
No room for any more
How about an ice cream sundae?
Replete

April 2016 Challenge Day 9: Tangent

Tangent
On a circle
Intersects at one point
A math vocabulary word
Tangent

Tangent
Irrelevant
An off-topic comment
Tangents are sometimes important
Worthwhile

April 2016 Challenge Day 1: Abhor

abhor
violence against
anyone who's different
We are all different in a way
judgment
 

Fierce Abs

Fierce abs
Rock hard muscles
Endless crunching and squats
Why don't I look like the picture?
Six pack

Bamboo

Bamboo

Shooting green sprouts

A building material

A source of food for animals

Basic

Locker

Locker
Holding my stuff
Keeping it all secure
Don't remember combination
I'm stuck

Beetle Cinquain

beetle
diverse, common
crawling all over Earth
creeping, burrowing underground
insect

Bandage

Bandage

Covering hurt

It's keeping out the dirt

Letting the injury repair

First aid

Camel Cinquain

Camel
Dromedary
Traversing the desert
Carrying such a heavy load
Burdened

Guarded Turtle

Turtle
in his safe shell
won't stick his neck out far
feeling to impervious to harm
guarded

Night Poem

 

Nightfall
Absence of sun
Dozing, dreaming, sleeping
Period of rest and renewal
Bedtime

April Poetry Challenge #30

Sunset

Sky on fire

Disappearing sunshine

Giving off an extra bright glow

Day’s end

April Poetry Challenge #29

 

Table

Organized time

A well-planned agenda

I hope we accomplish something

Schedule

April Poetry Challenge #28

 

Wind storm

Fierce and savage

Blowing throughout the night

Will we still be here come morning?

Cyclone

April Poetry Challenge #27

 

Glass pane

Inside the frame

Baseball sailing through it

Did anybody see that throw?

Window

April Poetry Challenge #26

Acorn

Green, hard, and round

Planted in the soft earth

Years from now, it will grow up tall

Oak Tree

(Yesterday was Arbor Day.)

April Poetry Challenge #25

Chew toy

Slobbery fun

Gnawing, squeaking all day

Don’t take my precious toy from me

It’s mine

Robin

Robin
Industrious
Pecking earthworms and grubs
Migration the sign of spring time
Songbird

Winter Cinquain

Winter
Not much daylight
I want to hibernate
Until it gets warmer outside
Season