Charmed Chaos
Musings on Life, Love, and Linguine-Poetry & Writing
Promote Yourself Monday, October 14, 2019
Hello Everyone! It’s Promote Yourself Monday at the Go Dog Go Cafe. Pop over to the site, share your latest, and read what others have shared. Have a glorious week- 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.
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#Shadorma: Watercolor Sky
“In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib
Barren land
sunset warms sandstone
dry landscape
haunting place
as a watercolor sky
kisses the terrain
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge No. 148 #Synonyms only- Empty/Space
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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A Certain Death
Should someday I find myself alone with nothing left but my words
my soul content, will be at peace my heart will carry no burdens.
For poetry is in my every breath, and all that comes between
this life I live and a certain death both mystery and majesty.
When I see a color stained sky painting a farewell to apricot sun
my thoughts take wing, flying from mind to hands to vellum.
The scent of blooming lavender wafting on the nascent breeze
sets my romantic soul dreaming how it must feel to be a honeybee.
As grey mockingbird sings a joyous creation of what he’s heard
my trembling heart sighs trying to put his music into words.
Though gnarled fingers ache from the betrayal of these aging bones
my poetic words must live on with hope someone will understand.
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
Poets United: Wild Friday Sanaa has asked us to use a poem as inspiration from the book Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur. Below are the lines of a poem I chose as my inspiration:
‘my heartbeat quickens at the thought
of birthing poems
which is why I will never stop opening myself up
to conceive them’
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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#Tan Renga: Tranquility
on the Honeysuckle
the fragile wings of a butterfly
a fluttering sound
© Chèvrefeuille (October 2012)
Sipping flowery nectar
study in tranquility
©2019 Linda Lee Lyberg
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai #1760 Butterfly -Tan Renga Challenge
Author’s Note: Chèvrefeuille has given us a Tan Renga Challenge, which is to add your 2nd stanza of two lines (approximately 7-7 syllables) to complete or continue the given haiku through association on the scenes and images in the haiku.
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Happy Little Duckies
“Art is what you can get away with.”
― Andy Warhol
Happy, happy, happy
smiling little duckies
perched in rows and rows,
they’ll never reveal
what they see, see, see
which is why they are
the perfect friends
for you and me, me, me
as we in secret, steal a kiss
while floating
in a pineapple sea, sea, sea
of marshmallowy bliss,
dressed in our finest jeweled silks
with a grumpy blue teddy bear
between, between, between
innocence and intimacy
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
dVerse Poets Pub: Warhol in Words: Poetic Pop Art- dverse form for all
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A Peaceful Life
As vivid summer blooms fade
on now withering vines
when autumn’s breeze strolls in
on the cusp of a velvet peach dawn
I cherish these beloved times.
Closing my eyes and taking a deep breath,
Nature’s sounds surround me
as hummingbirds flit here and there
defending their territory in the air
grey thrashers sing a welcome song.
With each day comes a deep sense of grace
filled with the peace of quiet harmony
As I spend each exquisite tranquil day
cherishing the simplicities of life
with grateful humility.
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
Poets United: Midweek Motif Everyday Living
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#Haiku: Red Leaves
yellow veined red leaves
plump green grapes hanging heavy
vineyard in autumn
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge # 107 fall foliage
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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JUST RELEASED!
JUST RELEASED!
Linda Lee Lyberg
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