yes, I am thankful for poetry’s gift
exuding worshipful gratitude-bliss
humbling me to praise God* for being blest
directed toward caring kindness-route
showered by heavenly fulfillment-triumph…
poetry’s bliss, blest toward triumph
Psalms 109:30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
February 7, 2025
1st place, "A Personal Valentine Phoenix sixain" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Suzette Richards; judged on 2/9/2025
Phoenix sixain --- It is a 6-line verse invented by Suzette Richards (2024).
Five consecutive lines are chosen from one of older poems, verbatim.
Line 6: A word from each of these 5 lines, in sequence; therefore, a 5-word line. Rhyme and metre are optional, and the syllable count per line is irrelevant.
[The 5-line verse is from my poem, “THANKFUL FOR POETRY’S GIFT” (2024)]
Categories:
sixain, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Verse
For her own sensual pleasure, she loved to dance
Never giving in again, to her need for romance
for once, long ago, a man had broken her heart
To this wild gypsy woman, the dance was an art
Her torrid gyrations were evidence of her passion
Sensual, her heart to passion
*Phoenix sixain form
Categories:
sixain, dance, passion,
Form: Other
Note: the first five lines of this phoenix sixain are from my poem Sweet Peas and Periwinkle on PoetrySoup.
Won't you join me in my garden?
I'll plant periwinkle bliss.
Won't you join me in my garden?
Then you can plant a kiss.
I love you. I love you. I do. I do.
My bliss, my kiss, you.
Categories:
sixain, valentines day,
Form: Other
Love is a soft and sweet triumph.
And triumph fills our every breath.
When we drink at the shore of Leth
Love's memory will not depart
Its passion fills the depth and breadth;
Sweet triumph of love's passion.
Categories:
sixain, love,
Form: Other
trailing her fingers through the crystal water
momentarily leaving a disturbance
soon to return to a calm mirror
believing woman’s love to be brief
driven mad by the longing and grief
water momentarily return woman’s longing
Categories:
sixain, longing, love, water, woman,
Form: Other
SIMPLE&SPIRITUAL
Oh Holy Spirit,come
be done
In me reside,this day
always
Grace gifts,on me bestow
and know
based on Crawshaw a 6-2 example
Categories:
sixain, christian, word play,
Form: Didactic
SIMPLE&SPIRITUAL
Oh Holy Spirit,come
be done
In me reside,this day
always
Grace gifts,on me bestow
and know
after Crawshaws sixain 6/2,6/2,6/2 aa bb cc
Categories:
sixain, faithme,
Form: Verse
I flit and flutter on the wind
blown as the spirit leads,
drawn by colour and intense needs,
my journee erratically unfolds-
I alight,spread my wings,
in still life,to make poets sing.
A sixain inspired by a garden view on holdiday recently and by Wordsworth poem 'The
Butterfly
Categories:
sixain, nature, places
Form: Verse