Colleen has selected storm and cold as her two words for this week’s poetry challenge. I have written a tanka and a haiku using synonyms for these two words. You can join in here: https://colleenchesebro.com/2019/01/22/colleens-2019-weekly-tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenge-no-120-cold-storm-synonymsonly/
Life’s noose
Dispassionate eyes
Watching as life’s noose tightens
Around my frail neck
Raging against the system
Only causes further pain
Pain
Pain debilitates
Penetrating barriers
desecrating hope
Robbie's inspiration 
Strong sentiments there. Well played Robbie!
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Thank you, Ritu.
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intense
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I always write about how I feel, Annette. I suppose I am very transparent that way.
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Powerful!
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Thank you, Bette.
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Wow, Robbie. You have expressed powerful emotions in both pieces. Well done! ❤
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Thank you, Colleen. My poetry is a window to my soul, that is for sure.
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I get you, Robbie. It always helps to channel those feelings. ❤
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Having dealt with chronic pain for years, the second poem accurately describes its sometimes effect. Fortunately for me, at least, hope always wins out.
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Yes, that is what keeps all chronic pain suffers going, Elizabeth. I am astonished at how many people suffer chronic pain. It is very sad.
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And it doesn’t show. We have a healing Mass a couple of times a year and I am always amazed by how many people go forward.
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Two pieces!? Wow, I struggle to churn out one – and yours are both great!
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Thank you. I only join in a prompt if I find inspiration on the topic. Colleen’s words this week exactly suited my black mood yesterday.
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Dark poems, Robbie, but great responses to the prompts.
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I need to find the lighter side of life today. My poetry is written in the moment so reflects my emotions at a point in time.
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That’s usually how it goes. I hope your today is full of lightness. ❤
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Is work bad again?
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I am feeling very claustrophobic and restricted in the new work environment. I enjoy regulation but there are limits. My strength has always been making the regulation work for a specific need. I am starting to give up with the world going in the direction it is.
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Robbie, incredibly powerful and striking poems … you capture extreme pain perfectly when it can lead to ‘desecrating hope’. Excellent responses to the prompt … a subject I feel you could write a lot more about.
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Yes, I could write a lot more about both of these poems. Some of my thoughts on corporate life and its place in society are reflected in my new WIP.
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Now I am even more intrigued…
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Poetry unleashes the emotion in the poet, and in those who read her poetry. Good job, Robbie. This poem can reach so many of us in different levels.
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Yes, Pam, I think that is the great beauty of poetry that it can make a strong emotional point in a few words. Have a lovely weekend.
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Nicely done, Robbie. How vivid!
It’s good that you can express yourself and get the emotion out. Much worse on the mind and body too if it is held inside.
That being done now, wishing you shimmering light to ignite the Light of your existence and bring joy to your universe.
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Thank you, Teagan, you do say such lovely things. Happy Friday.
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Sad to say, the first thing I thought of was all the books I read about hangings in the Old West. I think I need a break from that genre.
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I have been reading about all the hangings at Newgate Prison, Jacqui. Very interesting to learn about how these were performed and by whom. This poem was metaphorical, of course, we don’t have the death sentence in South Africa.
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Powerful and penetrating words, Robbie. Bravo! 🙂
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Thank you, Natalie.
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Vivid expressions of pain. (K)
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Yes, I know. It was my mood when I wrote it.
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I can’t say it any better than the others – dark and powerful, Robbie.
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Thank you, Teri. It was that sort of week for me.
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Your poems touched me, Robbie. They’re both beautiful, dark, and sad like cries for help. ❤ xo
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Thank you, VAshti.
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