Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

Spring Has Sprung

The Spring is stirring from this cold dead white,
From dark beneath oppressive night.
The searching sun reveals how bright
And fresh is morning air.
May I walk within such light
Where mercy soothes, where tears turn right,
And humble hope plants flowers everywhere.

Linked to Cosmic Photo Prompt. Dale offered the theme of “Spring has sprung”.

Linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile with thoughts of a coming spring smile to everyone.

Also linked to dVerse Quadrille. De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) is hosting with the word “stir”.

Looking Forward to April

Liquids

Wavy water, sunny sky, 
Smiling while white clouds float by.

Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale offers the prompt of “Liquids”.

Linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. My smile this week is much like my smile for the past weeks. Every day this past week has been an opportunity. I smile and hope I lived each well.

Bubbles at Rest and in Motion
Bubbles at Rest and in Motion

Waiting

I’m waiting patiently. Why not?
Hands stay busy all the while.
Cold contrasts with summer’s hot.
I’m waiting patiently. Why not?
In the end all that we’ve got
Is what will make us ever smile.
We’re waiting patiently. Why not?
Hands stay busy all the while.

Linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar where I am hosting with the theme of the triolet poetry form.

Shape

Impermanence

See how water tests the shore
Teasing its resistance,
Resistance to becoming more.
See how water tests the shore?
Be the change that you’re made for.
Change with fresh persistence.
Be like water. Test the shore.
Tease away resistance.

Linked to dVerse Poetics. Merril is hosting with the theme of impermanence.

Also linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar where I am hosting with the theme of the triolet poetry form.

Morning Water From the Shore

Set In Stone

A miracle I’d like to see
Might make some mountain slide.
Explanations won’t agree.
The miracle I’d want to see
Would peel this raging heart from me
That seeks a place to hide.
The miracles I’d long to see
Would make my mountains slide.

Linked to dVerse Quadrille where Mish is hosting with the word “peeling”.

Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale offers the theme of “set in stone”.

Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. That I’m here at all is enough motivation for praise, thanksgiving, hope and a smile.

Also linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar where I am hosting with the theme of the triolet poetry form.

Bloom

Justice and Mercy

A devil pointed out some sin
That happened long ago.
I knew that justice ought to win.
A devil pointed out some sin,
But mercy found a back way in
So gratitude could grow.
A devil pointed out some sin
That happened long ago.

Linked to dVerse Open Link Night where Lillian is hosting.

Also linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar where I am hosting with the theme of the triolet poetry form.

Vine and Palm Tree

Poppies

Colorful when given light
Shadows turn away
Waking bravely from the night
Colorful when given light
Proof beyond the sense of sight
Like a rainbow’s sway
Colorful when given light
Shadows turn away

Linked to dVerse Poetics where Linda Lee Lyberg is hosting with the theme of “to be a flower”. I picked poppies at least that is what I think those brightly colored flowers are in the photos. The form of the poem is intended to be close to a triolet.

Not Winter
Not Winter

The Dark and the Light

Morning’s sun takes evening’s dark
To bring on light past gray.
Fading stars in silence mark
Morning’s sun with evening’s dark
Like old fears swept away
Refreshed by night for day.
Morning’s sun takes evening’s dark
As light wipes out what’s gray.

Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale’s theme is “the dark and the light”.

Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. What brings a smile this week is waking up in the morning realizing I have another opportunity to smile.

Morning
Morning