Bubbles

with bubbles she just blew
she floats up up and away
as she watch them rise

PR

8/25/15

Post for carpe diem haiku :Modern Times Haiku Jerry Kilbride

Inspired by:

 the wheelchair child
reaches for bubbles
she just blew
© Jerry Kilbride

 http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2015/08/carpe-diem-modern-times-haiku-3-jerry.html?m=1

Echo Stillness

At the cool of twilight
In the stillness of my mind
floats that image
A glimpse of us
Transient
Like an echo in the wind
Carried from another time

Pat R

8/25/15

Peony

peony flower

in surrender to the sun

those warm days of spring

PR

8/23/15

http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2015/08/carpe-diem-special-163-lollys-fifth.html

Brush

Impression, Sunrise 1872  Claude Monet

with new brush strokes
a new impression started –
chasing the light

PR

8/23/15

Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), 1872; the painting that gave its name to the style. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

https://haikuhorizons.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/haiku-horizons-prompt-brush/

Dawn

on blades of grass
beads of water teeter
awaits break of dawn

Pat R

8/23/15

Fireflies

Try to choose a favorite haiku or tanka and tell us why you do like it and try to write/compose an all new haiku or tanka.

Here is my choice.

Fukuda Chiyo-ni (Kaga no Chiyo) (福田 千代尼; 1703 – 2 October 1775) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period, widely regarded as one of the greatest female haiku poets.

kawa bakari
yami wa nagarete
hotaru kana

the only river
where darkness flows:
fireflies (Chiyo-ni)

Why I like it?  The imagery that came to me was that it had to truly be a heavy swarm of fireflies to give the image of a ‘glowing flow’. I looked up ‘swarms of fireflies’. Its a mating ritual. How relatable is that? Putting our best foot forward in the hopes of attracting a mate.

The following haiku was inspired by Chiyo-ni’s haiku

(A rewrite)

dark of night

earthbound stars twinkle –

fireflies

2

whirlpool in the creek
the colors
of autumn

PR

8/22/15

For other responses follow link below.
http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2015/08/carpe-diem-utabukuro-8.html?m=1

Yellow Nile

Photo credit: Yellow Nile

Yellow Nile Blue Nile
White Nile – by every other name
The Nile from antiquity
Still influencing cultures

Pat R

8/22/15

Post in response to Carpe Diem Haiku Prompt, for other responses and further reading on the prompt follow link below

 http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2015/08/carpe-diem-804-yellow-nile-wadi-howar.html?m=1

Lake Tana

Islands of Lake Tana
a place for oneness with faith
on sacred sites

Pat R

8/22/15

For further reading on this prompt from Carpe Diem Haiku please follow link below

 http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2015/08/carpe-diem-803-lake-tana.html?m=1

Safflower Crowns

photo credit: wiki pedia

bees deep in the belly
of a field of yellow
safflower crowns

Pat R

8/21/15

 http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2015/08/carpe-diem-801-khartoum.html?m=1

How Long

how long
before my whispered prayers
reach your heart

2
how long
before geese fly south
coming of north wind

Pat R

8/21/15

Written for carpe diem haiku
http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2015/08/carpe-diem-on-trail-with-basho-encore-12.html?m=1