"Drawbridge" (September Haiku, Day One)

I'm going to try to participate in this challenge from Haiku Heights and write a haiku (or something resembling one) a day.  The first word is "drawbridge."

It’s summer still.  Fall

Will lower the bridge over

Her castle’s moat.  Wait.

Live for the Love of it,

The Happy Amateur 


http://haiku-heights.blogspot.com/p/the-september-heights.html

"Aliya" (poem)

Written for Poetic Bloomings "memoir project."

"ALIYA"

She could not say my nickname – “Sasha,”

Could not master the shushing sound

Lots of toddlers have trouble with.

She was always different though,

Always doing things her own special way

She invented a new nickname – 

“Aliya” she called her aunt – me.

(It really is a nickname for “Alexandra,”

But she could not know that.)

So, for a few precious years “Aliya” I was,

Until she became all grown up – five years old – 

It has been “Sasha” ever since.

She is a beautiful young woman now.

Was she ever a toddler? Hard to imagine,

But to this day I treasure her childhood drawings:

A portrait of someone with curly hair,

A caption – carefully scribbled letters:

“ALIYA.” 

Live for the Love of it,

The Happy Amateur

© Alexandra Palmer

 http://poeticbloomings.com/2012/08/26/a-k-a-prompt-70/

Riddle (poem)

A new exercise from Margo.  Step-by-step instructions:

 

A) Look around you, or look around your mind, and choose something, to start. Maybe you chose a sunflower, a wine glass, a pillow… Whatever you choose, list four or five previously unthought of uses for it. Begin each use with an imperative — an active verb– as if you are listing directions for someone, as to its possible use.

B) Add a couple of lines about how your chosen thing looks. Remember to begin each line with an imperative.

C) Bring in other sensory details. Add a line or two about how the thing feels, or smells, or sounds. Continue beginning each line with an imperative verb.

D) Now you can play. You have your material. Add to it. Subtract from it. Yank lines. Rearrange them. Place them in any order you think sounds, or feels right. Leave the numbers, or not.

Here's the poem I came up with...can you guess what it is about?

See it every day – and see nothing

Take a close look – see your features

Feel its sizzling heat

Trace its coolness

Try its tricky twin – go flying

Get it backwards – choose a bright color

Let it sing – and star in the show

Put its name in front of the crown – do not go there, won’t make you happy

Take its name again, add a terrace (ter it’s called sometimes) – work some magic. 

Live for the Love of it,

The Happy Amateur

Visit Margo Roby at  http://margoroby.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/the-event-poem-tuesday-tryout/