A-Z for April 2016 T b

Unofficial A-Z challenge 2016

(On Sundays - still using Kipfer’s book for inspiration for Instant or Just Karma)

“Now is the Time : 170 Ways to Seize the Moment”

By Patrick Lindsay

Now is the time ...:To choose freedom.

“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”

~ Thucydides (460 BCE - 404 BCE    BCE=Before the Common Era)

Moral Code?

Courage

Can be

Inaction; no response

To attempts at goading

Gossip

I have, fortitude,

attitude, guts, glory; for

my own story

Happiness

Can be

Gained; overflowing joy,

Accepting that which is

Important

I have little

Regrets of what was; so

I progress forward

Freedom

Can be

Found in art;

Decorative words that bring

Awe

©JP/dh

(Elfje 5 lines/ words: 1/1, 2/2, 3/3, 4/4, 5/1 alternate

with Collom American Lunes: 3/5/3 words in three lines)

(With quotes by famous folks

Whose last names start with the alphabet

Or at least have those ‘tricky letters’ -

U, Q, X & Y in them)

A-Z for April 2016 S b

Unofficial A-Z challenge 2016

(On Sundays - still using Kipfer’s book for inspiration for Instant or Just Karma)

“Now is the Time : 170 Ways to Seize the Moment”

By Patrick Lindsay

Now is the time ...: to read a classic.

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly

exhausted. You should lead several lives while reading it.

~ William Styron (1905-2006)

Great Books, Second Looks

I’ve read at least ten out of thirty on the list...

Some more modern than others that one might

Be surprised to find, just because a classic by someone's definition

That I read somewhere should be at least over fifty years old...

Becoming them, each

And every character ~ to

Breath their fire in dreams

To be refreshed in waking

In the waterfall of dawns

Believing that we

can find some truth between the

Flipping of pages

I have heard of, seen or have some knowledge of several

Of the other titles on a list that bespeaks of thirty literary classics.

Some I have no desire to read, and others I think I would

Enjoy if I read them once again.

©JP/dh

(renga sandwiched by free verse)

(With quotes by famous folks

Whose last names start with the alphabet

Or at least have those ‘tricky letters’ -

U, Q, X & Y in them)

A-Z for April 2016 R b

Unofficial A-Z challenge 2016

(On Sundays - still using Kipfer’s book for inspiration for Instant or Just Karma)

“Now is the Time : 170 Ways to Seize the Moment”

By Patrick Lindsay

Now is the time ...: To be passionate about your work.

“I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is to not take

yourself too seriously.” - Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (1946 - 2016)

Nonsensically Sincere

genuine

the mystery

as to why

acceptance of self is

faltered

me, myself, and I

tripping through the daisies

err goes my ego

faltered

in believing we must

always please or

be someone

else

©JP/dh

Haiku sandwiched by Elfje and Reverse Elfje

(With quotes by famous folks

Whose last names start with the alphabet

Or at least have those ‘tricky letters’ -

U, Q, X & Y in them)

A-Z for April 2016 Q b

Unofficial A-Z challenge 2016

(On Sundays - still using Kipfer’s book for inspiration for Instant or Just Karma)

“Now is the Time : 170 Ways to Seize the Moment”

By Patrick Lindsay

Now is the time ...: to help the earth breathe.

“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second-best time is now.”

Anonymous for Q

qualify

quietly

quiz qi

quantify quality quickly

question and quote queens

quarterly

Plant quince or quercitron oak or any tree!

©JP/dh

Elfje & one sentence verse

(With quotes by famous folks

Whose last names start with the alphabet

Or at least have those ‘tricky letters’ -

U, Q, X & Y in them)

Qi = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi

A-Z for April 2016 P b

Unofficial A-Z challenge 2016

(On Sundays - still using Kipfer’s book for inspiration for Instant or Just Karma)

“Now is the Time : 170 Ways to Seize the Moment”

By Patrick Lindsay

Now is the time ...: to recapture the wonder.

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios

Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso ; This name uses Spanish naming

customs: the first or paternal family name is Ruiz and the second

or maternal family name is Picasso.

perplexity (penned)

astonishment,

awe, reverence, fascination

curiosity

all things a person should hone

be aware, and “fear no art”

©JP/dh

(tanka as I was taught...syllables in line/ line space/ syllables in line):

5/7/5 line space 7/7

   

(With quotes by famous folks

Whose last names start with the alphabet

Or at least have those ‘tricky letters’ -

U, Q, X & Y in them)

A-Z for April 2016 O b

Unofficial A-Z challenge 2016

(On Sundays - still using Kipfer’s book for inspiration for Instant or Just Karma)

“Now is the Time : 170 Ways to Seize the Moment”

By Patrick Lindsay

Now is the time ...: to go organic.

“When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.”

David Orr (1944 - )

Help Find Order in Natural Chaos

On the shelf in the stores

We get to choose to pay now or later...

Some of us can grow our own but most of us must

Harvest our supplies from others production.

Be it animal, vegetable or mineral, one can make smart choices, we

Can live comfortably within our means...learn to renew and recycle

Start with simple steps, drink more water,

Use cloth shopping bags, eat more fruit

Respect how things are made - while appreciating advances.

There is a place for all peoples, things and science.

©JP/dh

(free verse)

(With quotes by famous folks

Whose last names start with the alphabet

Or at least have those ‘tricky letters’ -

U, Q, X & Y in them)

ik 365 for April 2016 b

This Sunday using Kipfer’s book for ‘Instant Karma’

ik 365

pine and spruce?

(three haiku 3,5,3)

weekend sleep

no alarm clock buzz;

just bird chirp

continue

list of things to do

in and out

clear corners

of empty cobwebs;

wake with spring

©JP/dh

Pine and spruce are trees but also mean;

Pine: yearn or fret/ spruce: neat, smart, trim

Inspired by: Get the cobwebs out of your head.

From: Instant Karma by Barbara Ann Kipfer

8,879 ways to give yourself and others

good fortune right now.

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Karma is cause and effect. Dharma means cosmic law.

Yoga is enlightenment through movement and Tao is the

practice of acting in harmony with the fundamental essence

of everything you encounter.

Note: My haiku (or other forms) are my interpretations

or of how I might put the inspirational sentence

into practice, for me.  Also, I am going in my own order.