Peter Norman Levesque

Clothes

Piles of your old clothes
You try them, toss into piles
To keep, give away
There is a metaphor here
About our life in general

#micropoetry #tanka #sorting

The sand on the beach
Reminds me that life is short
And temporary
While we may frolic and bask
Each small shell once had a task

#tanka #captiva

Lunch

I was traveling
Lawn is somewhat overgrown
To a wee rabbit
This field of wild violet
Looks like a open buffet

#tanka #bunny #lunch #backyard

The Poet's Tomb

His muse sits alone
Agony before his tomb
Here lies her poet
There is never time to waste
Write your heart while the blood flows

#tanka #málaga #museudemalaga #spain

Painting: The Poet's Tomb (1901) by Pedro Sáenz y Sáenz

Watchful

She minds the bathers
Frolicking about in waves
Sunning on the sand
Steady in her watchful gaze
Ready to save a lost soul

#tanka #sitges #spain

Solitudinarian

Should time come to pass
That you are no longer here
I may just give in
Walk away from it all, be
Solitudinarian

#tanka #obscureword

Portrait of Douglass Morgan Hall, oil painting by Thomas Eakins, 1889

Welcome Home

Home is not a place
It is that feeling you have
When surrounded by
People who love who you are
Holding you in their spirits

#tanka

Becoming

Every season
Has a way that we become
Summer is for blooms
The Fall is our soft tumble
To rest and then Spring again

#tanka #lisbon #poppy

Distraction

They will distract you
Feed you lies, make you swallow
No, spit in their face
Do not believe, resist, fight
For the world we need is us

#tanka

Stoics

Momento Mori
Amor Fati
Premeditatio Malorum
Sympatheia
Summum Bonum
The Obstacle Is The Way
Ego Is The Enemy
Act Accordingly

#marcusaurelius

Caught for a Moment

The light catches it
Holding it for a moment
Then releasing it
Into the ether of thoughts
That becomes the stuff of dreams

#tanka #malaga

Consumption

Growing consumption
Has me quite confused really
Do we buy for need
Or is it unrequited greed
Capitalism explained

#tanka #capitalism

Summer Sweat

Quiet summer day
Hot, humid air hanging low
Like uninvited
Lovers at shotgun wedding
A sticky situation

#tanka

The Hurricane Inside

My heart does not pump
It unleashes a vortex
Hurricane inside
Rushing all I need to my
Body, soul, extremities

#tanka #heart

The Hopefulness of Bearberry

Hey bear, please eat me!
Let me hibernate with you
Together asleep
Rising in the Arctic spring
Then you can amble away

#tanka #Bearberry

Faith

Not the old building
Not the rituals or pomp
I believe in love
Compassion, shared suffering
Rising spirits for life's joy

#tanka #faith #compassion #joy

Your Light

The light that shines from
The aura of your spirit
Leads me into grace
Grateful for your bright presence
Warmth that reaches across time

#tanka Kat Foto

Little Bicycles of Barcelona

Hers has pink tassels
His is blue with red fenders
Two little bicycles
On paths of Barcelona
Adventures of a lifetime

#tanka #barcelona #bicycle

Our Light

Our shadows don't lie
Even when we try to be
Decent and proper
The light of our glowing hearts
Gives us away to the world

#tanka #lightplay #theshadowknows

I want to wake in the morning
See her eyes on me and bathe in her smile
I want hope, joy, warmth, beauty
To be wrapped tightly in a little life...

From the poem Tired

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Click

Of all the possibilities
The unlikely probabilities
My unrealized fantasies
It is you who astounds me most
With the click of your heels
You walked into my being
Revealing this world I am seeing
Seemingly for the first time
A vision quest
Decades in the making

#newyork

Poet Era
This is my poet era
A time for lines
Written on pages & on my face
A time retreat to advance others
To encourage fresh voices
Speaking with courage
About truth, love, possibilities
Ground up from compassion
Our shared suffering
So that I may eventually leave
With nothing but remains & peace

Racism is Something we Teach Children

When I was a boy
Before I learned to be "man"
I only knew friends
And strangers who might become
Friends, I still try to feel this.

#tanka #Brooklyn #blacklivesmatter

I didn't know that Pride was happening the weekend I arrived. The city was buzzing.

Beacon

In times of trouble
May you find needed refuge
May your neighbours hold
Your heart in their intentions
Preserving humanity

#tanka #Sitges #spain

Standing in Motomachi Park in the Rain

The rain falls softly
On Motomachi today
You stand and watch me
Forever proud of your place
Near the old Prefectural

#tanka #hakodate #motomachi

Not Separate

Science is human
An action towards the truth
With Society
To imagine better life
How we live together here

#lk102024
#tanka
#Scienceandsociety

Impatience

My life has shadows
Hovering above my view
Reminding me that
Despite what I may desire
Everything comes in time

#tanka #57577 #patience

Brockville Stroll

It is a crisp day
A bright Sunday aptly named
To the waterfront
To breathe in the cold fresh air
Pray that Sunshine marries Spring

#tanka #brockville #Tallships