Knotty Sapling ~ Word Offering

Knotty sapling spreads
Gangly limbs and lofty thoughts
Of life beyond us

© B.Y. Penman 2008 - All rights reserved.





Photo: Poplar Sapling by Carolyn Krause

Hypervigilance ~ Word & Image Offering

Always listening
For the sound of life stopping-
Hypervigilance


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Toward Nothing ~ Word Offering

Over pine needles
And pavement, these gypsy feet
Rush toward nothing

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Caught ~ Word & Image Offering

Caught between here and
There are no happy endings
Just new becomings




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Walking The Walk ~ Word & Image Offering

A new route taken-
The maple sheds her red leaves
To soften the path

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Misty morning air-
I walk beneath changing leaves
and think of you





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Sidestepping

Humbly I sidestep
To get out of my own way-
Clouds part for the sun


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A little music to go with image & words. Bedouin Soundclash - Wall Fall Down

Moving Into Clarity ~ Image & Word Offering

Moving Into Clarity

Old ways and stale thoughts
Brushed aside for clarity
Cobwebs of a life



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Acoustic Boogie & Between

Between


Between the sheets
He brings the beach to me
Grain by grain





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Tommy Emmanuel - Boogie

Tuesday Word Offerings With a Little Music On The Side

Vibrations

A life's vibrations
Unnoticed by others
I feel you leaving


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Caught

Afraid to dance
Caught up in should and must
These bones know how




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Nicholas Barron - This Train


Photograph of The Dancing Tree from Source Of Light Portal - Photographer Unknown.

Wandering Wednesdays - Music & Word Offering

Toes tap in time
A gypsy wanders
Without leaving

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I decided to combine a word offering with my favorite of the week today just to mix things up a little. Along with Blues, I love listening to acoustic guitar and when I stumbled across the following video of Don Ross on youtube today I felt compelled to share. Enjoy.


Don Ross - Jesse Helms' Night In Havana



Photograph of Dance Shoes by Washington photographer Sally Ehrlich Hoffmann.

It's a Jazzy Sort of Day

Time for a little soothing jazz and a new word offering. I'm moving through my day with one eye closed while trying to chase away a migraine. I should know better by now and just hide out in a dark room and rest but I'm stubborn. I like to write through the pain and distract myself.

Moving Through

Riding the pain train
Moving through life with eyes closed
Just feeling the way

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Foolish Girl by Jazz Guitarist Matt Otten

Monday Word Offerings

Guardian mother
Between the madness and them
My body a shield


In soul cut moments
Without arms, only words left
To stem the bleeding


Burn the blue incense
Of forgetting and cleanse these
Word cuts from this soul

© B.Y. Penman 2007
- All rights reserved


Photograph - Guardian (Mother & Child Sculpture) by Ruth Burink

Blue Notes Etched In Bone - Collection of Word Offerings

In touch with those roots
Touching roots of becoming
Blue notes etched in bone


Moments of wanting
I play those blue notes to soothe
These old restless feet


Feeling the old ways
Vibrating through two old soles
Blue notes mark the way


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John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom

Word Offerings To Start The Week Off Right

Chosen

Some say he chose us
From that place of becoming-
Love mends broken wings

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Something Bent

I fear the rainfall
And the mountain's slow shed tears
Waking the river

I shall wish for something bent
To cling to as we float by

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Lawnchair Lovers

Lawnchair lovers sit
Sipping sunshine like coffee,
Rooted in asphalt


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Drifting - Word Offering

I am just colours
Reflected by the world's eye
Words drifting on air








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- All rights reserved.

Wanting Red Galoshes - Word Offering

Wanting red galoshes-
Wading through the tides of life
Splashing through the fear


© B.Y. Penman 2007
- All rights reserved.


** I cheated a bit on this haiku. 6-7-5
But it works and -wanting red rainboots-
just doesn't have the same feel or sound. **

The photo of the boots is from Funky Wellington.

Spring Themed Word Offerings

Grey spring sky above-
The Dogwood wears her white dress
Soon she'll change to green


The wind stole my breath-
Ship made of paper and string
Now sails the spring sky


Spring sky's reflection
Puddles of grey clouds explode
While the raindrops dance


© Copyright B.Y. Penman 2007 - All rights reserved.

Unseen - Word Offering

Unseen spring blossoms-
Air heavy with perfume
On this damp dark night


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Witku - Haiku Contest With a Twist

It's your turn to have fun and play with words. Tickle my funny bone
with a well written Witku (witty haiku) and receive a chance to win a
Moments Matter Most reminder band. Contest starts now and ends at
midnight PST on May 31, 2007. To enter, please post your original Witku
here as a comment. Don't be shy. It's all about the process and having fun
along the way.

The writer of the Witku that tickles my funny bone the most will receive
an original Savvyology™ Moments Matter Most reminder band. Please be sure
to check back on June 1st, 2007 to read the winning Witku and those worthy of
honorable mention.

How to Write a Witku -

A funny Haiku consisting of 17 syllables arranged in
3 lines of 5 - 7 - 5 syllables

To learn more about Haiku visit HAIKU for PEOPLE

Examples of funny haiku written to replace Microsoft Error
messages can be found here.

Now, grab a pen or keyboard and get creative!

** Your Witku can be about anything at all. I just gave the funny Microsoft Error message page as an example. **

Soggy Third Day of Spring

It sure doesn't feel much like spring here in soggy British Columbia. Although the trees have started to bud, the temperature is around 47'F and it's expected to stay like this for the next several days. We get that heavy, grey socked in feeling with low lying clouds that cling to the mountains out here where I live. If you can look beyond the dismal grey sky, the low lying clouds can be quite beautiful.

Here's a picture I took from the window of our hotel room on the last respite trip my husband and I took. You can see the mountains that surround us and the way the clouds hug them.

It's been unusually wet and grey this winter, and I can honestly say I've been homesick for California weather. I used to live there in the 80's and have fond memories of the San Francisco Bay area and the weather. Sure, it rains there in the winter too but it's not the same bone chilling damp rainy weather that we have up here.

To help get myself in a spring mindset, I created this abstract image of spring's first crocuses and wrote a haiku to match. Yesterday, to celebrate the first day of spring, I made the finished haiga (haiku and artwork) available for purchase through Savvyology Designs. It's as much a positive affirmation and short prayer for personal renewal as it is a simple haiku.

Renewed Haiku Affirmation © BYP 2007