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#Haiku: Budding Season
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
sun breaking through clouds
a brisk spring breeze sings through trees
the budding season
©2020 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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Magic Reapers
I can tell you I spend my days talking to the singing birds or
conversing with my little dog, who understands every word
My neighbors know nothing of me or what’s churning in my heart
I doubt they know my name, much less my poetic arts
When you say to someone ‘I’m a poet’, they look at you and stare
as if you are an abstract human with horns and flaming hair
And so I have no words to say, because I know there’s little use
unless you are a passionate writer, you have no heavenly clue
So a toast to all my comrade poets, my artistic moon dreamers
who soar among celestial stars for we are the magic reapers
©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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Tripping
It was a time of freedom- the seventies
Free love, free drugs, free to be me, free free free
Living with friends, aimless wandering
Never pondering the future
And then one night Bill Jr. came by
He wanted to share his latest find
Purple microdot in tiny squares
That would take you on a trip of your life
So my friends and I
We decide we’ll split one 4 ways
At first it wasn’t anything spectacular, at least for me
Then my three friends started tripping
Seeing lights, colorful rings, body tingling
And feeling other more unpleasant things
So I found myself saying to them ‘No, it’s not working for me’
As I spent the night waiting to come down from the high
While trying to keep at bay their fears and mine
I don’t know why but I kept hearing a train all night
as if it was bearing down on me and the other three
And what I learned from this whole scene
Is this- the only high I want or need is that of life.
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
dVerse Poets Pub: Poetics: ” Bartender I’d like to close out my Tab-oo”
Author’s Note: Amanda is asking us to reveal ourselves. This is me, it’s what happened, and I never tried acid again. These days, a nice glass of red wine is all I want.
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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#Haibun: Shades of Blue
On days like this when the wind is chill and the sun seldom peeks through the clouds, I wrap myself in a shabby cotton sweater. I am a butterfly in a blue cocoon, safe from the world and harm.
It’s an odd looking sweater, with snaps as opposed to buttons, and has always been misshapen, a loose mess. I bought it years ago, off a Macy’s sale rack for next to nothing. It’s lightweight and not very warm, but for some reason its scent brings to mind that of an old friend hugging me. There are random holes in it from snagging it on a rose bush or the huge thorns on the lemon tree, yet I cannot part with it.
When I need solace, I go in search of the sweater. Because it is so old I tend to throw it off when the temperatures rise, leaving it in a forgotten heap. And there it sits abandoned, waiting.
soothing spring showers
falling from colorless sky
lavender spikes bow
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge #168 Synonyms only- Comfort & Worn
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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What Stirs Your Soul?
What stirs your body’s soul and
sets your heart singing its own refrain?
Is it a glimpse of mountain range etching a stormy grey sky
or a sunset across sandy plains of rustling beach grass?
What cuts you to the quick like broken glass?
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
dVerse Poets Pub: Quadrille #99, Poems Stirred, Not Shaken
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#Haiku: Worm Moon
crawling into night sky
worm moon beckoning to spring
time between seasons
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Frank J. Tassone: Haikai Challenge #129- Super Worm Moon
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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Promote Yourself Monday, March 9, 2020 and Round UP, March 2, 2020
Good Morning all- It’s that time again! Pop over to the Go Dog Go Cafe for Promote Yourself Monday and share your latest. Be sure to read and comment on other writer’s work. Have a wonderful day-I am off to the dentist-UGH! Linda
Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed into the comments section below. If you post a link, be sure to read some of the other great writing people have linked to.
Many apologies for the confusion last week, I crossed my wires forgetting there was a previously scheduled post and created a new one. But that didn’t stop us from having another great week. Between the two posts we had over 60 likes and 180 comments and an amazing !39! shares. In the confusion did cause me to miss a whole bunch of writers, my humblest apologies as I do try to get to every post over the course of the day. So if I…
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