English: Pond Reflections Winter Scene. Glebe Gardens. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Pool reflecting world
Surface hiding the true depths
Like most that we see
DWPenner 2003
Poem Chain #1Margaret and I decided to try something different and created a chain of poetry. We decided to see what we would come up with if one of us wrote a poem and then the other wrote what poetry that might inspire in us. Then the other would do so – and-so-on…
Since it was my idea I wrote the first idea. We decided I might start with a poem inspired by a “colour”. Perhaps because I am rather taken with starting the day with a Haiku I instinctively wrote a Haiku and started with my poem “Green, Life in the Raw”.
This led to this 10 poem chain:
We each have our own style and so the poems while inspired by each other are very different from each other and cover a broad spectrum of topics.
I hope you enjoy this project. We plan to do it again some time in the future.
~ Darrell
I was inspired to write this while trying to help Margaret find her inspiration for a poem. She had a few words, “King” “Hill” and “Tree” and this is what my mind came up with. “Golgotha” is the name of the hill the crucification of Christ took place on.
King of Golgotha Hill
Fruit on man-made tree
Gift for all mankind
Lift us up forever
DWPenner, July 26, 2009
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Night
A kaleidescope of dreams
Parading for their purpose
Oft important it seems
Night
So full of vision light
Symbolic or direct
Where do you lead me tonight
DWPenner August 15, 2005
Written passing something personal
The river of Gold turns to River of Scarlet
I lay in pain on the grass
Though stones of this struggle be round or sharp
They will pass I know
But as I lay in pain on the grass
I spy a flower
A simple flower white like a daisy
With a simple yellow centre
And near it a ladybug
I see a butterfly flutter overhead
I lay in pain on the grass
The pain is still there.
But I know it will pass
But the beauty
Now a flower
Now a beetle
Now a butterfly
Will always remain
I will forget the pain
DWPenner 10 July 2008.
The sky is still up!
The ground is still down!
If you can still make your kids giggle,
There’s no need to frown!
DWPenner November 18, 2005