Colors of Winter
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April Odds & Ends
too many dreams and
so little time to follow
any to its endif they don’t bathe in sunlight
daffodils will never bloom
Copyright © 2021/04/30, by Liz Bennefeld.
lying on the sand
looking up at Ocean’s mirror
the rain dropping through
brief remnants of the daylight and
their echoes—the stars and the moons
Copyright © 2021/04/30, by Liz Bennefeld.
TV noise …
I saw it before
Star Trek reruns eternally
Copyright © 2021/04/30, by Liz Bennefeld.
Poems in addition to the ones assigned to April days. Still looking through text files for poems I may have missed along the way.
Liz
Wide Awake | NaPoWriMo Day 30
sunny afternoon
no rabbits in the garden
nobody to chaseboth our people are asleep
what’s to do with time that’s free?
[tanka.] Copyright © 29 April 2021, by Liz Bennefeld.
Note: My husband requested a poem to go with his favorite photo of our dogs, The Scampers. The photo was taken in the spring of 2016, when they were four months old.
Trees and Rivers | NaPoWriMo Day 29
moss and scattered grass
trees stretch to reach forever
anchored in the ground
seeds drop into mountain streams
traveling to lands unknown
Copyright © 2021-04-29, by Liz Bennefeld.
Contentment | NaPoWriMo Day 27
wrap yourself in quiet
put sadness aside
look past pain to joydeep rivers carve their way through stone
falling tears both heal and burn
Copyright © 2021-04-27, by Liz Bennefeld.
Sound Barriers – NaPoWriMo Day 20
sometimes life becomes
a bit too full of people
walls, motion, wind, lighthours feel like mere minutes
words turn into jumbled noise
Copyright © 2021-04-20, by Liz Bennefeld.
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash
Tempted – NaPoWriMo Day 19
clear skies and sunshine
beckon those indoors to come
and play in the grass
meanwhile in growing shadows
water drops appear and freeze
Copyright © 2021-04-19, by Liz Bennefeld.
May Day – NaPoWriMo Day 18
rain in the morning
snowfall starts at afternoon
sunshine at evening
water for the thirsty plants
next comes warmth for May Day blooms
Copyright © 2021-04-18, by Liz Bennefeld.
Winter Storm Day – NaPoWriMo Day 17
rain, snow, and bluster
promise of a quiet day…
warm and cozy bed
surrounded by my pillows
piles of books and lots of tea
Copyright © 2021-04-17, by Liz Bennefeld.
Image by kristamonique from Pixabay
Transformation – NaPoWriMo Day 4
nature transfigured
the familiar wears a mask
streets and highways gone
seek paths to the beginning
restart the world…try again
Copyright © 2021-04-04, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Photo by Peter Oslanec on Unsplash
Fish, tonight
quivering of float and handline…
fish, tonightmurmur of the stream
the crackling fire
Copyright © 2021-04-02, by Liz Bennefeld.
Photo by Adrian Infernus on UnsplashD
Ancestors
Wake up! New day!
birds gather
on backyard cables
morning news
Copyright © 2021-03-31, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Photo by Hassan Pasha on Unsplash
The cold outside
cold fog and drizzle
standing water turns to ice
one more cup of teaa distant dog keeps barking
just outside a closed door
Copyright © 2021-03-17, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Remember
After the winter — Poem a Day — 30 November 2020
even in death
flowers speak of life
root and seed
sleeping through winter
new petals at spring
Copyright © 2020-11-30, by Liz Bennefeld.
Waking Up — Poem a Day — 26 November 2020
starting out the day
with my first cup of coffee
my dog on my legs
I am trying to wake up
while he’s fallen back to sleep
Copyright © 2020-11-26, by Liz Bennefeld.
At Morning – Poem a Day – 24 November 2020
at times a poem
that comes to me at morning—
too real to write—
takes away my trembling breath
as it breaks my aching heart
Copyright © Liz Bennefeld, 2020-11-24.
Image by Leonhard Niederwimmer from Pixabay
Signs of life — Poem a Day – 23 November 2020
at eight twenty-five
sunlight shines past distant trees
the first signs of life
through the misty glass I view
one car moving down the street
Copyright © 2020-11-23, by Liz Bennefeld.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 333 Life and View
All the Nuts — Poem a Day — 22 November 2020
crows smell the peanuts
bag and nuts across the road
they light on the ice
noisily they gather here
to search and eat and gossip
Copyright © 2020-11-25, by Liz Bennefeld.
Early Alarm — Poem a Day – 20 November 2020
on the flight path
heavy engines, flying low
unwanted alarmawake again at 5 a.m.
the FedEx plane’s on time
Copyright © 2020-11-20, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Image by ThePixelman from Pixabay.
Autumn Rain – Poem a Day – 18 November 2020
the cadence of the rain
Copyright © 2020-11-18, by Liz Bennefeld.
as it beats on the window
waking to morning
my heart picks up the pattern
of the untamed world outside
Image by jcheaneymckee from Pixabay
Morning Crows – Poem a Day – 17 November 2020
raucous family flock
crow antics in the morning
making lots of noise
the loudest dares all comers
boasting from the highest branch
Copyright © 2020-11-17, by Liz Bennefeld.
Image by Emilian Robert Vicol from Pixabay
The Tides of Love — Poem a Day, 16 November 2020 (#Ronovan #Writes)
life’s tides are certain
rhythmic changes shape our years
flow and ebb…and ceaseentwined hearts drawn in the sand
now buried but eternal
Copyright © 2020-11-16, by Liz Bennefeld.
No Path Back — Poem a Day – 14 November 2020
childhood memories…
walking through an empty world
branches whipped by windsall paths to home have vanished
fall rains turn to winter’s snow
Copyright © Liz Bennefeld, November 2020.
Photo art by E.W. Bennefeld. All rights reserved.
Cloudburst — Poem a Day — 10 November 2020
soft sunset colors
after swollen clouds and rain
winds fade and die
rivers overflow their banks
trees are mirrored in the streets
Copyright © 2020-11-27, by Lizl Bennefeld.
Going to Seed – Poem a Day – 7 November 2020
dandelion clocks
ice turns into water drops
time is running out
seed heads bask in daylight’s warmth
soar aloft on fall’s dry winds
Copyright © November 2020, by Liz Bennefeld.
Poem a Day – 6 November 2020
Echoes — Poem a Day, 4 November 2020
alone for a while
Copyright © 2020-11-14, by Liz Bennefeld.
gone are the distant voices
that faded, now lost
left are echoes of my words
burbling in the pebbled rill
Day 24 – Butterfly Memories | Poem a Day (NaNoWriMo)
cloudy skies
threatening late-autumn snow
leaves on the windmemories of butterflies
flower pollen, gentle breeze
Copyright © by Lizl Bennefeld,
2019-11-24. All rights reserved.
Day 23 – Listening | Poem a Day (NaNoWriMo)
no more ideas
nothing to be done with that
but to keep still
listening from my silence
to the heartbeat of the world
Copyright © 2019-11-23, by Lizl Bennefeld. All rights reserved.