Thursday Doors

This used to be a bank (Williamsburg Bank), now condos.
The first photo is of a building that used to be the phone company building. It is now repurposed as condos. Very pricy condos.
Manhattan has moved across the Brooklyn Bridge into Downtown Brooklyn. And with it came the traffic. It used to take me 30 minutes from my neighborhood to the bridge. That now takes 90 minutes. Progress.

For #Thursday Doors
over at Norm2.0

Pat R

3/30/17

https://miscellaneousmusingsofamiddleagedmind.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/thursday-doors-march-30-2017/

Weekly Photo Challenge:Dense

Pat R

3/29/17

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/dense/

Wordless Wednesday

Arise

Arise! Spring has sprung
Mountain creek is holding court
A roaring spring melt

Pat R

3/28/17

For Carpe Diem Haiku
For more details on the prompt or to participate go here

Inspired by:

O slumbering one, the beloved has arrived, arise!

Brush off the dust of sleep and self, arise!

Behold the good will has arrived,

Come not before him with tears, arise!

The mender of concerns has come to you,

O heavy-hearted one, arise!

O one afflicted by separation,

Behold the good tidings of the beloved’s union, arise!

O you withered by autumn,

Now spring has come, arise!

Behold the New Year brings a fresh life,

O withered corps of yesteryear, up from your tomb, arise!

© Tahirih (Tr. Farzaneh Milani)

Clouds & Spring

the light of the sun
in hiding behind dark clouds
a rainy spring day

I embrace the first raindrops
thankful for hidden blessings

Pat R

3/28/17

Tanka Tuesday

Spring & Fresh

starting fresh
in gentle spring rains
youthful leaves

Pat R

3/28/17

For #Ronovan Writes Haiku

&

Daily Haiku Challenge

Spring Rains

tear drops
hang from bare branches
spring rains

Pat R

3/28/17

Daily Haiku Challenge

Door

ah! first blooms
the door of spring is
flung open

Pat R

3/26/17

For

Haiku Horizons

&

Carpe Diem Haiku

Oddball Photo Challenge

I was thinking these were toes in the sand. But they just might be fingers. This was at a ‘sandcastle building’ contest on Coney Island Beach.

For

Cees Oddball Photo Challenge

 

Pat R

3/26/17

Memories

Muted shapes and colors tangle with memories loosely tethered

Emerging from the cloud, warm memories, us holding hands

Laying in tall grass, listening to the sound the earth makes

Pat R

3/25/17

Over at Cape Diem Haiku we’re being introduced to the Sijo. A Korean form of poetry “…more ancient than haiku, the Korean Sijo shares a common ancestry with haiku, tanka and similar Japanese genres. All evolved from more ancient Chinese patterns.

Sijo is traditionally composed in three lines of 14-16 syllables each, totaling between 44-46 syllables. A pause breaks each line approximately in the middle; it resembles a caesura but is not based on metrics.

Oh that I might capture the essence of this deep midwinter night (16)
And fold it softly into the waft of a spring-moon quilt (14)
Then fondly uncoil it the night my beloved returns. (14)

© Hwang Chin-i (1522-1565) most revered female Korean classical poet…”

To read more about this, read other samples of this form or to give it a try go here