HAIKU: MUSIC IN YOUR HEART

By Charles Robert Lindholm

MUSIC IS HIDING

HAIKU: TRUTH IS NOT FAKE NEWS

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Scribbling In The Sand

He Writes The Accuser’s Sins

A National DNA Day Limerick

A study by neuroscientists at the University of Oxford shows that mobile genetic elements that were active in the genomes of our ancestors could be closely linked to important functions in our brain and might diversify our behaviour, cognition and emotions.

Seasons

His voice is all I truly know.
His holy wind through fire will blow
and where He goes my seasons go
in faith as Spirit-led.

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Ronovan Hester offers “season” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poetry, Short Prose and Walking.

John 3:7-8 KJV
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

HAIKU: HENCHMEN

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Bozo Has Henchmen

A National Bucket List Limerick

From Inc. Magazine – John Brandon, Jan 23, 2018
What do you want to accomplish in life?
Pick things that bring lasting joy.

In your list, it’s also important to think about the things you might regret not doing in life. Do you want to write a book? That’s on my list. It’s OK to have items that are career-oriented, although “rising the corporate ladder” is also not normally something you’d think about in that hospital bed. Donating a month of your salary to charity? Maybe. Tutoring a college student? For sure. Pick things that will be highly rewarding, the long-term big picture items.

THE SUN IS A FICKLE LOVER

By Charles Robert Lindholm

The Sun’s Love Affair
With Summer Is Over, For Now

It’s Not Like It Is
A Sudden Surprise

The Most Famous Speech In The English Language Reduced To A Five Line Limerick With A Texas Twist

This is one of my best and my favorite limericks. I wrote it twenty-nine years ago.

THE SHANGRI LA OF US

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Life Is So Fast Paced
Anymore
And Time Seems So
Fleeting

With Us
Rushing Around
In Our Own
Little Whirlwinds

The Roses
Go Unsmelled
Along With The Coffee,
Too

We Are Always
Leashed Up
To Electronics
And The Whole
Wide World
Around Us

While The Important
And The Lovely
Are Left Unattended
And Not Admired

I Want To Stop
Our World
From Spinning
Around Us
In A Vortex

I Need To
Hold You
In My Arms

And Look
Into Your Eyes

For You Are
My Anchor,
You Are My World
And All That
Really Matters
To Me

We Need To
Protect
The Shangri La
Of Us

So We Can
Grow Old
Together
And Still Be
In Love

Copyright © 2018 Charles Robert Lindholm – All Rights Reserved
Inspired by a comment to my friend – Beth of Midwest Fantasy

HOW A GUY CAN BECOME A HERO IN THE KITCHEN – HOW TO OPEN A STUCK JAR LID

By Charles Robert Lindholm

You Can Always Tell
When A Hero Is Needed
In The Kitchen
When You Hear
Your Sweetie
Scream

ALLITERATION ATTACK

By Charles Robert Lindholm

My Words
Will Always
Want To,
Play
Around

With Rhythms
And Rhymes
And Meaningful
Lines

SHE WAS MY WILDFLOWER

By Charles Robert Lindholm

She Brought Joy
Into My Life
Everyday
And Because Of Her

An Anniversary Poem

Yesterday was my wedding anniversary. We celebrated our wonderful years together with many accomplishments and adventures filled with love and laughter. The fun is just starting. The best is yet to come. I LOVE YOU.

A wedding anniversary
Is cause for a celebration.
Marriage isn’t always a walk in the park –
There’s tough times and sometimes frustration.
But there’s nothing you can’t overcome
With real commitment and dedication.
True Love will always conquer all…
And an anniversary is a special occasion!

A Passover Limerick

To all my Jewish friends – Happy Passover. Passover is the holiday when the Jewish people celebrate their escape from slavery in Egypt. Like all Jewish holidays, Passover has holiday specific symbolic food. Matzo, unleavened bread, is the focal point of the Passover food and it takes great cooking skill to turn this edible cardboard into something palatable. But making it easier to go in does not make it easier to go out…..

A TWILIGHT KISS

By Charles Robert Lindholm

I Sit Alone In Silence
As A Summer Afternoon
Slowly Surrenders
To The Evening Sunset

Relief

The Lord’s strong favor brings relief
and guards against wild unbelief.
The devil is a wily thief
who’d snatch the way side seed.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “relief” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poetry, Short Prose and Walking.

Matthew 13:19
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

HAIKU: LIFE IS A PATHWAY

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Life Is A Pathway

Life IS Hard And Yogi Got It Figured Right

Yogi Berra is as famous for his “Yogi-isms” (philosophical observances and sayings) as he is for his play on the baseball diamond which got him into the Baseball Hall of Fame. When I saw this post on Facebook, I immedietely thought of one of his more famous Yogi-isms and with the truthful statement above, this came to me.

HAIKU: FISHING IS

BY CHARLES ROBERT LINDHOLM

FISHING IS HUNTING

HAIKU: BUILDING SANDCASTLES

By Charles Robert Lindholm

BUILDING SANDCASTLES

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES AT THE BEACH

HAIKU: MY HEART’S CATHEDRAL

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Votive Candles Burn

A Masters Sunday Limerick

Amen Corner at Augusta National – holes 11, 12 & 13 – where for golf lovers all over the world, the excitement that hinges on every shot on Masters Sunday begins for, arguably, the greatest golf tournament played every year. The golf course is architectural magnificence on a canvas of natural splender.

HAIKU: A LAKE CALLED TAHOE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

What happened to you? – Poetry by Sofia Kioroglou

HAIKU: THE HEART KNOWS LOVE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

There Is A Quandary

HAIKU: A FANTASY LIFE STORY

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Bozo Is Busted

HAIKU: OUR FIRST KING??

By Charles Robert Lindholm

The Ringmaster Is

Maintenance

When stuff breaks down as stuff will do
recall the joy the Lord brings to
the heart that beats inside of you.
Then praise Him all the more.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “maintenance” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poetry, Short Prose and Walking.