Haibun Monday – Kindness

It’s Monday over at dVerse poets. Haibun Monday. This week the topic is “kindness”. Pop over, have a read and join in from here.This is my entry.

I’m in the Victorian House enclave of Brooklyn. They’re filming a movie. So this usually means no parking spaces for mere mortals. I find a spot. I’m backing in and the guy behind me is opening his hood. I park and go about my business.
I come back to my car and there’s a ticket on it. I’m irritated. I don’t remember a parking meter. Damn!

This guy is where I left him. Only this time he has booster cables attached to his battery. Traffic is slow, yet no one stops I pullout and back up next to his car. I pop the hood of my car to the sound of blaring horns behind me. He turns the key in his ignition, the car starts. He gave me the biggest smile, thanking me perfusely. Then I noticed his small grand daughter in the car. Suddenly, I was no longer irritated.

in the shelter
of dried maple leaves
a seedling

Pat R

10/30/17

For

dVerse  Poets

 

Daily haiku challenge

#OctPoWriMo

Wrong & Touch

a touch of autumn –
pesky vines can do no wrong
splashing fall colors

Pat R

10/23/17

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge

Wrong & Touch

Daily Haiku Challenge

 

Jazz

cauldron of rhythms
bass, drums, wailing tenor sax –
jazz cacophony
summer night under the stars
soulful rhythms fill the air

Pat R

10/23/17

WP Daily Prompt : Cacophony

 

City Life

Photo by Andrew Benz

eyes scan the car, reading others
a thread in the fabric of city life
in a train full of stories

Pat R

10/20/17

For Sonya. over at 3 Line Tales over at “Only 100 Words”

The Rules :
Write three lines inspired by the photo prompt

&

Daily Haiku Challenge

OctPoWriMo

 

Leaf

autumn leaves
frolick here and there
free at last

Pat R
10/15/17

For Haiku Horizons

For Daily Haiku Challenge

OctPoWriMo

http://www.octpowrimo.com/2017/10/day-18-everyone-went-on-eating.html?m=1

Calm Lake

calm lake –
another world
beneath

Pat R

10/16/17

For

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge

&

Daily Haiku Challenge

&

OctPoWriMo

 

 

Tranquil

Sunrise two days ago

the call of seagulls
slow swish as ocean kiss shore –
early morning stroll

Pat R

10/13/17

Carpe. Diem. Haiku: Tranquil

Daily Haiku Challenge

#OctPoWriMo

 

Quiet Surrender

asway in hammock
wrapped in the arms of nature
quiet surrender
to sound of tumbling creek
and the wind in trees, healing

Pat R

10/11/17

For Carpe. Diem. Haiku Prompt: Wordlessness

( an exceptional weekend)
To read more about the prompt go here

OctPoWriMo

 

 

 

Into The Sea

melting into the sea
the full moon
leaves a candle bright (Jane Reichhold)

blanket of dry maple leaves
crunch beneath my feet autumn’s gone

Pat R

10/09/17

1. Carpe.Diem.Haiku
2. Daily Haiku Challenge

Red Leaf

1. 

one red leaf
brought by autumn wind
sits alone
at my door others scattered
farther still I pause beguiled

Pat R

10/08/17

Daily Haiku Challenge

For Carpe. Diem. Haiku

&

OctPoWriMo

Distilled from the Robert Frost (1874-1963) poem:

OCTOBER

O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
To-morrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call.
To-morrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow,
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way you know;
Release one leaf at break of day;
At noon release another leaf;
One from our trees, one far away;
Retard the sun with gentle mist;
Enchant the land with amethyst.
Slow, slow!
For the grapes’ sake, if they were all,
Whose leaves already are burnt with frost,
Whose clustered fruit must else be lost—
For the grapes’ sake along the wall.

(Source: http://www.poets.org)