Lent Challenge week 3

March 19th Wednesday

There are angels,

Around us now,

God's human agents

Who shine through our lives.

March 20th Thursday

Two oranges sit apart

On a country road.

Placed or random zen?

March 21st Friday   Sports’ Relief.

Unused muscles flexed,

Conquering fear to achieve,

Many help many.

March 22 Saturday

Sticky buds unfurl

Skylarks share joy in song, but

Kites circle their pray.

March 23rd Sunday

Gulls stalk the mudflats

Human voices sing of love,

Slowly the tide rises.

March 24th Monday

Plane Wreckage is found

Bringing closure of hope and

A chasm of loss.

March 25 Tuesday

Traffic jam, rain, gloomy news

Daffodils drip and

          droop

A day begins.

Lent Challenge week 2

Wed  March 12

Woods in fog look good

Trunks recede in shades of grey

Suggesting mystery.

Thursday March 13th

 Space can hold promise

A vacuum of potential

Or a fearful pit.

Friday March 14th

 Prism light shimmers

Scattering rainbow rays;

Truth can splinter too.

Sat March 15th

 Primrose edge the paths

The Angel gives pilgrims rest,

We journey in trust.

Note: the Group of pilgrims who came to known as the Pilgrim Fathers 

travelled together to Southampton where they were to catch the boat 

The Mayflower. They gave the name of The Angel to hostelries which

gave them shelter for the night, the day after they had stayed there..

Many publicans then and subsequently, honoured the 'name' given 

to the inn by the pilgrims.

Sun March 16th

 Three church butterflies,

One, striving to be free, two

Needing to know more.

Mon March 17th

 Askew and broken

The gate's home now to insects

Age brings new purpose.

Tuesday March 18th

A dark corridor lined with dark pictures,

Portraits which look down with bland, pompous,

Or cliché expressions of nothingness.

Art by the yard, relations relegated

To shadows: the place and poor artistry

Condemning them to obscurity.

They mattered once. 

Now, their dismal faces stand for untruth.

Lent Haiku's week one

Lent Haiku's 2014 Week one

I am challenging myself to write a haiku everyday of Lent!

Ash Wednesday March 5^th

Marked with an ash cross

Lent and Austerity begin

But daffodils blaze

March 6^th

Waterlogged lands smile

The sun shrinks the 'lakes' of wild rain,

'Retreat' has sounded.

Friday March  7^th

An airfield quilt show:

The growl of a Spit engine

Bonding with patchwork.

Sat March 8

Green fields of water

A Brimstone seeking nectar

Spring confronts the floods.

Early Tortoiseshell Butterflies

Sun March 9

There is a right way.

But which? Multiple choice confounds us

Ask what would Christ do?

Mon  March 10

The buzz has come back-

Bees about their nose business,

Be still and listen.

Tuesday March 11

Fight a proxy war:

Arm rebels, sit smug yourself,

The coward's way out.

Kingfishers