Sonia Heidi Unruh

Joined June 2022

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I love: my husband and children; all who claim me as family or friend; the first bite of chocolate; the last blue before sunset; solving puzzles; stroking cats; finding myself by writing; losing myself in reading; the Creator who is love.

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Next Time, I'll Write Myself a Note
A pill to help those who forget?! Yes please! I'll take the whole set! I go out the door And drive to the store ... ... Now what did I come here to get?
By Sonia Heidi Unruh3 years ago in Poets
Brevity vs Levity
The bard had an impatient son Who thought writing verse was no fun. He penned his third line, Then started to whine, "If this was haiku I'd be done!"
By Sonia Heidi Unruh3 years ago in Poets
Just Water for Me, Please
The wine at Le Snooty Café Costs a fortune and tastes like stale hay. No one wants to look crass So they down the whole glass,
By Sonia Heidi Unruh3 years ago in Poets
Leprechaun's Revenge
With a skip and a smile malicious, I conjured him three pungent dishes. He let out a shout To see cod, carp and trout,
By Sonia Heidi Unruh3 years ago in Poets
Ana's Home . Second Place in Under Purple Clouds Challenge. Top Story - March 2023.
Every night at midnight, the purple clouds came out to dance with the blushing sky. Then came the azure flowers dotting the golden grass, springing up lushly around the brook of palest green. A few coral birds were added to wing gracefully over the meadow.
By Sonia Heidi Unruh3 years ago in Fiction
There once was ....
I wanted to write from my bed As purple clouds danced in my head But it was a strain With covid on my brain So I wrote a limerick instead!
By Sonia Heidi Unruh3 years ago in Poets
11:58
After long labors, I finish my poem. You say, "Well, it's about time!"
By Sonia Heidi Unruh3 years ago in Poets
Remember, in Advance
I won't get to choose which stories about me go in your time capsule ; ; This haiku is the fourth in a time capsule quartet:
By Sonia Heidi Unruh3 years ago in Poets
Please, in Advance
In my last moments I will wish that I could take a capsule of time ; ; This haiku is the third in a time capsule quartet:
By Sonia Heidi Unruh3 years ago in Poets
Apology, in advance
All those boxes stashed in my basement -- not clutter but a time capsule ; ; This haiku is the second in a time capsule quartet:
By Sonia Heidi Unruh3 years ago in Poets
Thanks, in Advance
I pack my haiku in a backlit time capsule that you just opened ; ; This haiku is the first in a time capsule quartet: Thanks, in Advance
By Sonia Heidi Unruh3 years ago in Poets
Flint Hills in May
Viridescent sheet billows ... Wish I could bottle this view in a poem ~~~ Yes, the Flint Hills of Kansas really are this beautiful. I had to add a new word --"viridescent" -- to my palette.
By Sonia Heidi Unruh3 years ago in Poets