a tumbling creek
truly cleansing melody
calming to the brain
Pat R
7/25/18
For Ronovan Writes Haiku where the prompt is Brain & Cleanse
Tag Archives: creek
Winter Ice
Pleasantly Surprised – Haibun
It is an odd view from the window. Bare woods, tree branches stark naked unmoved by birds or breeze. Just engulfed in fog. The type that brings with it a chill that is not easily shaken. I sit cuddling my mug of tea pondering the movement of the sunlight through the morning fog. I liken it to an impressionist painting without the colors. What else could be moving through that mist unseen, I wonder. Then, there they were!
family of deer
fawn lags behind distracted
headed to the creek
Pat R
12/11/17
For dVerse Poets Pub where tonight is haibun monday and the prompt is : Pleasantly Surprised
Ode to Mountain Air
This mountain air
Grabs ahold of me
Mind and body
Feels lighter in this air
In this mountain air
Songs of the wind
In trees a more baudy chorus
In tumbling creek
Rivulets and gurgles
Dance their way
Into my consciousness
Calming me before I know
In this mountain air
A bird holds fast
To swaying branch
As wind ruffles his tail
A gust of wind
Has never been so vivid
My sleep is deep
Restoring my soul
In this mountain air
Pat R
11/10/17
For dVerse Poets Pub where the challenge is to write Odes, poem of praise.
Another first for me ☺☺
&
Thorpurge. Micropoetry Month Day 10
Weekly Photo Challenge: Earth
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
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)
True Silence
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
To see other entries or to join in go here
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/
Melody from Creek
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
Wordless Wednesday
Silence
sound of noisy creek
song birds and the wind in trees
the route to silence
Pat R
10/27/16
For Carpe Diem Haiku
