Category: poetry

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Tankas to Nature

Melinda Kucsera

Tankas to Nature* A collaboration with Carol from WritersDream9.Wordpress.com Carol is a skilled poet who excels at crafting haikus, haibuns and tankas that read like a Japanese master penned them. She also creates short fiction, longer poems and haigas of breath-stealing beauty. Stop by her site and let her words sweep you away to simpler life full of nature’s and the spirit’s bountiful gifts. It is warm outside Birds take off their feathered coats Seeds are bursting now Shoots thrust through the melting ground Welcome spring with green carpets ~ ~ ~ Daffodils trumpet Yellow heads tip back to sing Expose their nectar … Continue reading Tankas to Nature

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Give Truth a Chance

Melinda Kucsera

Give Truth a Chance*   *A collaboration with Manan, the talented poetess behind Manan Unleashed. Drop by her site and be dazzled by her wit, amazed at the beautiful images she creates and swept away by her heartfelt words. Give Truth a Chance Same old same old, that’s what we hear them say Same old miserable lie every day So much we conceal behind this same old For once let’s break the superfluous mold Break the chains of your silence–speak your mind. Voice your heart’s truth–please don’t keep it confined. Let everyone know it’s not the same old thing everyday–let the … Continue reading Give Truth a Chance

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Elemental Senryu: Fire

Melinda Kucsera

Elemental Senryu* *A collaboration with Rosema from A Reading Writer Rosema writes short fiction, poems and posts about the books she’s reading. Hop on over to check out her site and pick up a recommendation or two for your next read. Fire Purifies loved gold, strongest metals bend, mold licks life new or old. Sparks fly catch on wood; sparks in your eyes burn your heart– fires rage in both. ~ ~ ~ Well that’s all folks! This is the last post in the series Rosema and I did. We hope you enjoyed reading these senryu as much as we … Continue reading Elemental Senryu: Fire

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Stars Dance – A Kyrielle Sonnet

Melinda Kucsera

Stars Dance – a Kyrielle Sonnet Stars dance to music of the spheres within dark energy’s ballroom swaying through dark matter that’s there. Gravity’s pull makes them dance. In a vacuum their music sounds mathematical, oh what gloom– scientific, describes the boom. Gravity’s pull makes them dance. Colliding stars send shock waves out shaking the the long cosmic ballroom, the microwave background plays out– Gravity’s pull makes them dance. Stars dance to music of the spheres– Gravity’s pull makes them dance. ~ ~ ~ This was really hard. Not sure I’ll try this one again unless I need a poetic torture device 😉 … Continue reading Stars Dance – A Kyrielle Sonnet

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Curse Breaker | Intercepted

Melinda Kucsera

Curse Breaker | Intercepted “Easy,” said the newcomer, “It’s just Green Eyes.” Sarn risked a glance at the man standing at his elbow. Grime combined with the green glow of Sarn’s eyes made it impossible to tell what color the man’s garments were or if the fellow was sporting gang colors. The gap-toothed fellow waited for a response of some kind. Great, so word had spread that Sarn wasn’t mute. Damn it.  “How do you know me?” “Zaduke.” He owed Zaduke a favor. Anger flared up but Sarn squelched it and the memory of just why he owed a jumped … Continue reading Curse Breaker | Intercepted

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Elemental Senryu: Wind

Melinda Kucsera

Elemental Senryu* *A collaboration with Rosema from A Reading Writer Rosema writes short fiction, poems and posts about the books she’s reading. Hop on over to check out her site and pick up a recommendation or two for your next read. Wind Whispers soft and light, scream signals storm’s strong might, yet cradles flying kites. Wind whips tornadoes, hurls them across the grassland– toss cars and houses. ~ ~ ~ To be continued tomorrow … Continue reading Elemental Senryu: Wind

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Elemental Senryu: Water

Melinda Kucsera

Elemental Senryu* *A collaboration with Rosema from A Reading Writer Rosema writes short fiction, poems and posts about the books she’s reading. Hop on over to check out her site and pick up a recommendation or two for your next read. Water Evolves ceaselessly, frozen then flowing briskly, can’t live without thee. Water dashes rocks, falling in a silver spray– purity that flows. ~ ~ ~ To be continued tomorrow … Continue reading Elemental Senryu: Water

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Elemental Senryu: Earth

Melinda Kucsera

Elemental Senryu* *A collaboration with Rosema from A Reading Writer Rosema writes short fiction, poems and posts about the books she’s reading. Hop on over to check out her site and pick up a recommendation or two for your next read. Earth Above sprouts green lawns, beneath lies decaying bones, births, buries life zones. Cities rise and fall Earth remains spinning through all the lives led and lost. ~ ~ ~ To be continued tomorrow … ~ ~ ~ Continue reading Elemental Senryu: Earth

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Curse Breaker | Queen of All Trees

Melinda Kucsera

Curse Breaker | The Queen of All Trees Something tied the Child of Magic to the mountain and that tie refused to allow him to leave it. The Queen of All Trees tested its tensile strength and found the tie to be stronger than it. Each link was a promise forged in magic and blood. It led back to an unexpected source—a small child. The Child of Magic had a child of his own. Not well versed in humans, the Queen of All Trees flipped through memory’s pages seeking the truth. It found a sixteen year old boy and a … Continue reading Curse Breaker | Queen of All Trees

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Curse Breaker | Stupefied

Melinda Kucsera

Curse Breaker | Stupefied A keening sound startled Nolo and gave him a direction. He rushed off towards the source. He found Sarn staring at a broken child not two hundred paces away from the previous murder site. His hands shook where they remained suspended halfway between himself and the boy. Horror had shut off his reasoning. Beyond the child lay a dozen men, women and children all dead. They’re bodies had not been ripped apart or in anyway despoiled. Nolo noted all that in a quick glance before returning his attention to his stricken charge. The dead could wait … Continue reading Curse Breaker | Stupefied

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They might be Senryus

Melinda Kucsera

These might indeed be Senryus or some other species of micro poems. I just read three mystery/thrillers (audio books of course) back to back while cleaning house/walking/cooking/photoshopping etc and for some reason that led me to write these.  Go figure. Seventeen lifetimes he sat, in prison, scribbling wisdom on cell blocks Parted lips drip gold gold flecks smeared to make her bold she laughs, gold flashes Stars alight attract lovers with star-shot wishes their hopes soar space-wards Lovers who obsess future’s fate’s their obsession now’s not their concern Jealousy’s green eye casts itself on all around sees imagined faults Security woos … Continue reading They might be Senryus

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Goodnight – A Senryu?

Melinda Kucsera

Goodnight (Quite possibly a series of senryus) Let night break gentle on your brow and wipe away cares as it enfolds. Toss your wishes high so like the stars they scatter and night might gather. Night holds your wishes in its pocket, kept there safe ’till day unlocks it. Sleep now, wish no more let cares slide between the boards as bright dreams take wing. Let sunlight hold you; no nightmare can behold you; sleep now, dreams shield you. Fly amid the stars where wishes made become true; wake to wish granted. Sunlight breaks gently on your brow and embraces dreams as it enfolds. Continue reading Goodnight – A Senryu?

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Indentured | Curse Breaker

Melinda Kucsera

Indentured–one word with three syllables, in its meaning is found a lifetime’s worth of complexity, incalculable problems that his signature, an X, birthed. Yet fly to work he does for his master’s waiting and Sarn’s running, chasing the bells that chime the hours; yes run slave, run faster! Mount Erendren’s bells wait for none to knell, tell that day has ended for some, not you. Night’s rising, moon’s winging o’er Shayari and the Enchanted forest’s restless too. Quick, smart trees, all a-glow, need you to see what their daytime sport, that tends to distort, did to folks, who came ‘neath trees to disport. … Continue reading Indentured | Curse Breaker

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Little Christmas

Melinda Kucsera

Little Christmas (Picks up where The Holy and the Lowly left off) Ran awoke to familiar surroundings but his stuffed companion had gotten lost. Searching the room he shared with his sleeping Papa turned up no button eyed bear tossed aside when had adventure spirited Ran and his Papa to follow a star. Inari slept ‘neath a shawl she’d knitted She stirred at his approach, smiled like a star. “Where’s bear?” he asked anxious to find his friend and tell his Christmas tale to those stuffed ears. “Maybe in here, let’s look,” she extended a box, bow-topped, wrapped in star’s shine and tears. Ran opened … Continue reading Little Christmas

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The Holy and Lowly

Melinda Kucsera

The Holy and the Lowly (Picks up where Sons and Holy Ones left off) After their talk, Sarn had a better grasp of things; Ran was safe inside the stable. So he walked and wondered until a rasp drew his eye to the Savior’s slim, sable bearded step-father; out of wedlock’s born a Holy Infant, a bastard like Sarn’s son and Sarn himself and that made Sarn less torn up about his family and his son. The Holy Family was as broken as his own but united by love’s bonds. That was what mattered; all else were tokens of public goodwill without love to bond. … Continue reading The Holy and Lowly