Road

mountain road
chaos left behind
leaves russle

Pat R

5/16/17

Haiku Horizons

&

Daily Haiku Challenge

Elements

Photo: Taken at the beach on a end-of-summer day, hurricane was in the winds. As the waves swept back out to sea I got this shot. Very shiny!!

wind and rain
torturing young leaves
– bruised buds

mountain trail –
the silence broken
monk’s footsteps

river calms –
summer breeze hugs frame
as she strolls

snow atop
sparrow’s evergreen –
now, blue sky

For
OctPoWriMo
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Carpe Diem Haiku prompt: Full Circle

Weekly Photo Challenge: Shine

Words to be used, in clockwise order, one in each line of haiku :-

rain, young leaves, buds, mountain, silence, monk, river, summer breeze, she, snow, sparrow (s), blue sky

Full Circle

Photo: Taken on the butterfly bush outside my window, a windy day.

misty rain
sprinkling young leaves..
tender buds

in mountain vistas
therapeutic silence..
a monk contemplates

sounds from the river
feel of balmy summer breeze..
she sits with eyes closed

before the first snow
sparrows feast on red berries..
gray replace blue sky

Pat R

10/20/16

For

OctPoWriMo

Carpe Diem Haiku prompt: Full Circle

“Full Circle” means:

“…the goal is to write haiku with the twelve (12) words I will give. It’s a kind of word-whirl and you have to use the words given in the clock-wise direction. So every word has to come in the line of it’s place on the clock e.g. rainbow you have to use for line one (1) and autumn for line two (2) and so on… twelve (12) words (for every ”hour”) one word. The goal is to write haiku using the words as given in the clockwise way”.

Here are the twelve (12) words, for every hour one word, you have to use this time:

1. rain
2. young leaves
3. buds
4. mountain
5. silence
6. monk
7. river
8. summer breeze
9. she
10. snow
11. sparrow (s)
12. blue sky

Mountain

on this mountain path
I pause, lost in
the poetry of it all
with each pause
the path feels clearer

Pat R

8/27/16

[…] “Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. ” […] Theodore Roethke”

For Carpe Diem Haiku

Echoes of My Neighborhood

This week my neighborhood is more suburban than urban. I am in the mountains breathing good air, and getting good sleep.

              last night the rains came
nature’s lullaby
dreams danced in childhood

                Twin maples, now bare

The smallest of the forsythia bushes, such curves.

Something was slittering through the crunchy ice

Remnants of fall long gone

That picnic table is doomed after many harsh winters

Old mini cabin holding secrets of tiny creatures

Crunchy snow and ice along upper edges of the creek

The winter sun was starting to set the light on the water was captivating.

Pat R

2/25/16

For
http://acookingpotandtwistedtales.com/

Where you offer a glimpse of your neighborhood in pictures

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http://acookingpotandtwistedtales.com/2016/02/25/souk-madinat-the-mosque-and-others-echoes-of-my-neighbourhood-11/

Mountain Mists

mountain mists

gray clouds conspire

then comes the sun

Pat R

Inspired by

cloud peaks
how many have crumbled
on the mountain of the moon

© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)

For Carpe Diem Haiku

 

Serene Mountain

serene mountain gifts
a oneness with nature
thunderous waterfall

Pat R

11/26/15

For

Carpe Diem Haiku

A Summer Mountain

Post in response to prompt from Carpe Diem Haiku: A Summer Mountain

a summer mountain
journey for solitude
I pray for guidance

PR

5/18/15

For further reading on prompt and other responses follow link below
http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2015/05/carpe-diem-734-summer-mountain.html?m=1