During National Poetry Month each year,
grand festivals are held throughout this land.
Excitement increases when time is near.
Variety is key. No event will be bland.
heartfelt
greeting
starts the
meeting
time is
fleeting
MC’s
leading
schedule
heeding
poets
sharing
deep thoughts
baring
scrumptious
dinners
contest
winners
speakers
first-rate
wise words
they state
short breaks
workshops
soon the
fun stops
all’s done
fest ends
homeward
each wends
April
next year
poets’
good cheer
will be
spreading
we’ll be
heading
to a
grand fête
that’s a
long wait!
Autumn festivals
harvest times to remember
ev’ry November ...
holiday season's delight
no time for anger or spite.
THIRD PLACE WINNER
written November 6, 2022
submitted to "A New Hiku Footle Tanka " Poetry Contest
sponsored by Brian Strand
1.Diwali..Festival of lights..
2.Holi..Festival of colours..
3.Krishnashtami..Occassion of the birth of krishna..
4.Sallikattu..Package of coins..
5.Karwa chaut..Women pray for their men..
6.Durga Puja..Worshipping goddess durga..
7.Navaratri..Nine nights..
8.Dussehra..The day of victory..
9.Ram navami..birthday celebration of rama..
10.Ganesh Chaturthi..Ganesh anniversary celebration..
11.Dahi Handi..Pots filled with yogurt..
12.Makar Sankranti..Transition of Sun into Capricorn..
13.Raksha Bandhan..Brother-sister relationship..
14.Mahashivaratri..Great Night of Shiva..
15.Chhath Puja..Sky worshipping..
16.Kumbh mela..River-bank pilgrimage..
Festivals are celebrated
In grand feasts, a socialized and modified way
Only feasts are remembered
But
Neither the interesting and mysterous stories or fairy tales
Nor the unique, strange, never-met ancestors
For they are too far away
To be understood
By the stonely hearts of this modern world
Festivals
We all meet each other ,greet each other
Happiness ,smiles spreading each other ,all around the world
Indian festival gives us fun ,new clothes ,pooja to the god in the early mornings ,so much of devotion ,prayers
Indian festival fun to celebrate
Festival makes us to foregt the bad past
Creates a new good begining
Festival fun to celebrate
So much of good happening spreading in the house
Lots of food preparing the house
Indian festival so much of fun to celebrate
Family staying together having fun together , strongest ,smart part of the Indian festival
Anyone would love to be a part of festival.
October 25th, 2020
Belgium All Star Festival
Variety of languages are being spoken
Church of Our Lady of Laeken smiles as she sees them gather
Across from her boats are being decorated for the festivities
We have the best festivals in the world, she thinks
Grand Palace would disagree.
She was haughty, and stuck up, thinking her festival was the top of the mark.
Flower Carpet Festival was fine but not held yearly, so Lady of Laeken discounted it.
We also have the Belgian Pride Festival every May, the bakery down the street
mentioned to her, so she knew she had been think aloud.
It was a fantastic festival too and well attended.
At least we do not live in Ypres the two landmarks said to each other, laughing.
That is where Festival of the Cats is held, honoring gruesome stories of throwing cats.
Church of Our Lady of Laeken felt sorry for her cousin St. Peter’s, for he lived in Ypres.
It was something he had to endure every year.
September, November seasons refresh,
trees change their colour to wear a new dress,
Rub hands, mist in breath, colder evening walk,
leaves rustling under feet, stroll in the park!
oil wicks lighting up, every home and door,
little lamps on windows, add to decor,
late shops, busy crowds, fill Indian streets,
fire works, new clothes buy Diwali* sweets!
More lights are lit, in other parts of world,
Thailand and Japan, fly lamps red and gold,
Lighted carved pumpkins in England are seen,
Beautiful Autumn! night of Halloween!
* Diwali= Indian festival of light in October
Autumn or fall poetry contest
12 lines rhyme
Tania Kitchin
written 10 September 2020
Vibrant Festivals Of India .....
Colourful, bright,
full of light ,
Lighting lamps,
spreading colours,
flying a kite ,
reaching a new height,
What a tremendous sight!
Worshiping God Lakshmi's might .
Holi is Vibrant and colourful ,
In Diwali you 'd better be careful .
It may be lunch or dinner hospitality is our mentality,
Christmas is here Christmas is here,
the festival of joy and cheer!
Eid Mubarak to everyone !
come lets have lots of fun ,
Every one is going to mosque to pray .
People are grateful
it's special day.
India has its culture display in customs and traditions.
It's known for its festivals and celebrations.
What a colourful land India is!
Various religions, faiths innumerous
Sometimes Christmas, sometimes Diwali
Sometimes Id, sometimes Baisakhi
Celebrating people
Happy, cheerful and hilarious
Unique celebrations
Grand receptions
Creating love and brotherhood
Zeal and livelihood
Every day seems new
Drenched with
Hearty feeling dew
May Lord! Grant her
Prosperity and endeavor
To mingle the whole humanity
Into one eternity
To colour every heart
With love and sanctity
Her feelings of true love
Be a feature all above
Glistening and gleaming
Bright eyes lighting up so wide
The innocence of children dreaming
About all the wonders that are inside
The ice sculptures coming together
With their carved out faces
For everyone to remember forever
The enchanting landscape places
This winter wonderland a paradise
A festival celebrating the snow
And all the slippery shapeable ice
Making all want to go
Just to see the creativeness
Of the latest snow made figure
What it will be, can you guess?
And if you can, are you sure?
CLOUDS AND FESTIVALS
He lay out on the cellar door
one day
lazy
gazing at the sky
A child
Before he knew why
clouds move
Sunny
Late afternoon
Grey ghostly moon
The busy honey bees
Suspended
Sip
Then BUZZ zip!
He’s heard the Earth goes round
His following eyes go round
and round
Suddenly!
he’s off the ground
quite a vital sort of primal ecstasy
Clouds and Festivals
Surreal
Nature’s sounds
Music in the air
infects the skin
the veins
A shiver!
ah those few moments so rare
then
Mother calls him in to dinner
The summer brings out a multitude of things
from blossoming trees to colourful flowers
onto music festivals,glastonbury showers
standing soaking dancing, but that all brings
A sense of bonding as we all in the same boat
some barely naked not possessing a coat
from Leeds to Bristol,London and France
hundreds of tents all ages will dance.
Not minding if it`s a field of soggy mudd
their taste in music blasting, that surely would
turn off the thoughts that may carry
uncomfortable attire, and happy as Larry.
They billow just above that far hill
I think I see old Zeus peer out
the piercing eyes ulotrichous beard
hair a roiling wiry nest of whirls
Father of the universe
those Olympian palace trumpets bear
It is the wind and such a wind those sirens
crying shaping sounding
Old Zeus is soon become in depth his invisible blue
Such agitation! I cannot tell ground from above
I sit on cool damp grass dizzy dizzy
the wet-sense separates myself from on high
Clouds festivals and sirens....
Debussy must have laid out on such
hearing post horns in the chase
the chase of clouds and sky
Yes a stallion's head his flaring nostrils form
And I am soon mounted riding wed
Bodiless I dodge and call ahead
"Afternoon!" transformed lifted off the meadow grass
"Take me!" tossed among the fickle folds gaping
A trip like this comes but once in mind's mystic shaping
I hear the golden brass in perfect organ tones
with sirens unite
Earth passes 'neath my enchanted sight
a festival of lights
sun-clad in blue and white
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