I was up in the mountains yesterday sitting by the creek, listening to its stories:
creek running wild, spring dance
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sitting by the creek
listening to its stories
clear waters running wild
spring dance
Pat R
4/19/17
DP Weekly Photo Challenge: Earth
Arise! Spring has sprung
Mountain creek is holding court
A roaring spring melt
Pat R
3/28/17
For Carpe Diem Haiku
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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)
my inner voice
like remnants of an echo
thrives in true silence
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in the peaceful scenes
of the mountains silence reigns
melodious creek
and the wind in trees bring me
to a place of true silence
Pat R
3/18/17
For Carpe Diem Namasté The Spiritual Way #5 self consciousness
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Inspired by:
old barn
in the middle of the field
so desolate
a playground for the wind
deep silence of no where
(c) Chèvrefeuille
&
“…There is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold grave—under the deep deep sea,
Or in the wide desert where no life is found,
Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound;
No voice is hush’d—no life treads silently,
But clouds and cloudy shadows wander free,
That never spoke, over the idle ground:
But in green ruins, in the desolate walls
Of antique palaces, where Man hath been,
Though the dun fox, or wild hyena, calls,
And owls, that flit continually between,
Shriek to the echo, and the low winds moan,
There the true Silence is, self-conscious and alone. …”
(c) Thomas Hood
Also for https://booknvolume.com/2016/10/18/lavish-dailyhaikuchallenge/
Recent Photo of Brooklyn skies
at daybreak
melody from creek
fills warm air
lark’s occasional warble
rounds out the chorus
Pat R
12/15/16
sound of noisy creek
song birds and the wind in trees
the route to silence
Pat R
10/27/16
For Carpe Diem Haiku
under full autumn moon
we sneak down to the creek
to see how it behaves
in moonlight
Pat R
9/18/16
