Charmed Chaos
Musings on Life, Love, and Linguine-Poetry & Writing
#Haiku: New Coolness
early morning breeze
songbirds slow to awaken
in dawn’s new coolness
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Frank J. Tassone’s Haikai Challenge #156 New Coolness (shinryoo)
Author’s Note: It’s a new week and the start of my countdown to finishing up the radiation treatments for breast cancer. After today, 9 more to go. It’s been rough, but the end is near. Thanks to all of my wonderful friends who have given me the strength and willpower to go on.
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories. You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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Wait
“The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo
Wait until sweet morning dew
dries upon green velvet grass
delight in simple pleasures
a feather found, rich treasure
Saunter with stealth and grace
through mottled forest glen
leave no visible trace
of where you’re going
or where you’ve been
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
The Sunday Muse #125
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories. You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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When the Heavens Explode
“We all shine on…like the moon and the stars and the sun…we all shine on…come on and on and on…”
― john lennon
I heard the stars singing last night, an ancient lullaby
sharing their mystical wisdom from high in the nightwind sky
They sang to me their sorrow of man’s refusal to believe
how his actions are harming the earth, and the universe we see
For every action has a reaction like dominoes tumbling down
when you set one in motion, yes the world will still turn around
But the deepest question my friends we should all be thinking of
Will we be around to see it when the heavens explode above?
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
Author’s Note: A poem from last year. I have been dealing with internet problems all morning.
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories. You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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I Drank the Moon
“She didn’t quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
I drank the delicious moon one dark balmy night
as it flowed from the celestial blue sky,
An illuminated river of planets and nubulae
Tempted me with their moonlight madness.
The lustrous moon tasted of honeyed milk,
The bonbon planets oozed with dark chocolate
The nebulae, fragrant as crystalized ginger
Set my hungering afire with consuming desire.
And I became entangled and trapped
within this universe of delightful light,
a bodiless soul shimmering, in translucent air
floating among the stars and drinking the moon
Swimming in the insanity pool of my poetic mind.
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories. You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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Whisper of Autumn
“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
Indian Summer]”
― John Howard Bryant
Cool whisper
of autumn in dawn’s
morning breeze
despite the
brazen sun’s warmth on my face
refreshing relief
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge #194 Synonyms only Hint & Bold
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories. You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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#Haiku: Remaining Heat
summer heat lingers
into fading sunlight hours-
horned owl hunts for prey
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #155 Remaining Heat
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories. You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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Silver Threads
Silver threads woven through my hair
where once I defied my true age
an etching of lines on a weathered face
leaving a map of where I’ve been.
For a pandemic raging and a cancer in my breast
have done their damage and left me
-naked, for this disease changed, rearranged
a self-confessed charlatan who tried to age with grace
washed away all the masks, left no trace
-exposed stark beauty under skin.
And now my words, my thoughts, my feelings
all elements of my entire being
– coming from a different place
for pain peels away layers of self-preservation
leaving a yearning for a simple life again
to bask in the sun’s warmth caressing my face
and not think of battles raging within.
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
dVerse Poets Pub: Poetics Self Portrait– Come and Take a Selfie!
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories. You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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