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Adrift (Haiku)
adrift in the street / cherry and pear blossoms – / out like a lion / ◊ adrift in the pool – / blue above and blue below – / sunbather sandwich // ◊ adrift in the wind – / the leaves of ten willows /...
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Summer Wings, Winter Wings (Shadorma – Haiku)
I’ll never / cling to a gull’s back / as he skims / the ocean – / but perhaps one wild summer / I’ll wing over waves // gull’s wings / racing the whitecaps – / remembering snow / silently – / on...
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One Brown Apple / Thawing in the Sun (Haiku)
◊ one brown apple / dangles from the gnarled branch – / first snow falls // ◊ thawing in the sun – / the pink and white tulip / in its ice cocoon // ◊ Written for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, where our...
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Autumn Leaves (Haiku)
autumn leaves and the heavens unravel – winter shakes out her hair ◊ Written for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Time Glass, where we were given 12 hours to write a haiku inspired by the prompt “autumn...
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In the Pressed Leaf (Haiga)
Created for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Arti-Visual in the pressed leaf summer’s scent – winter writes haiku ◊ ←◊→ Tagged: arti-visual, Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, Edgar Ent, Ent, Fun with PicMonkey.com,...
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White Sleet in Peach Street Lights (Renga)
white sleet in peach street lights – he walks alone on morning’s edge his footsteps blossom and die on the wet sidewalks from ten stories high I sketch his retreat – warm face, cold...
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Tall Grasses (Haibun)
Let us pause and enjoy the tall grasses today – The brown stalks that surround the empty cornfields are just as lovely when they are brown as when they were fresh and green. They bow with the wind...
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Nature Sleeps (Tan Renga)
At Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, our task was to take this lovely haiku by Becca Givens and add two lines (in approximately 7-7) to create a tanka. This is called ‘tan renga’. Here is our host’s offering:...
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Exhaling Vapor (Tanka)
exhaling vapor everywhere I go – cold forest walk – a damn fine cup of coffee waiting at the end ◊ Linked to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Pop Culture. Yes, I know — shake your head in dismay, it’s alright...
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Listen (Haiku)
listen – tall grass says plenty in the first snow ◊ Linked to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, where “miscanthus” (“susuki”) is our inspiration. It is another of the seven sacred flowers of autumn....
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32 Degrees (Haibun)
Shoveling snow at 32 degrees – I love it! – even when Mother Nature can’t decide what to send. “Snow! Sleet! How about slush? Mmm … no. Ice pellets, perhaps? Let’s send it all! Why not?” I...
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Night and Full Silence (Haiku)
night and full silence – stars are coming and going in the sycamores ◊ night holds its breath – strings of pearls in the sycamores ◊ Linked to Carpe Diem Special #116: Tomas Tranströmer’s “And the...
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First Sleet of Winter (Haiga)
◊ first sleet of winter – even reflections shivering ◊ Linked to Haiku Horizons: Cold ←◊→ Tagged: cold, haiga, haiku, haiku horizons, reflections, shivering, sleet, winter
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russet and scarlet (haiku)
◊ russet and chestnut – green leaves take new names marrying winter ◊ Linked to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Kanshicho and Heeding Haiku with HA: (chestnut or balloon) ←◊→ Tagged: Carpe Diem...
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Riding a Cold Wind (Haiku)
riding a cold wind mottled leaves take flight – pintos on the move ◊ Carpe Diem: Escape Haiku Horizons: Cold ←◊→ Tagged: Autumn, Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, cold, escape, flight, haiku, haiku horizons,...
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Shadowy Things (Haiku)
shadowy things on the fringe of a winter’s night – scowling at lanterns ◊ Linked to Carpe Diem #612, where “lantern” is our inspiration. Here is some background on the traditional tōrō lantern,...
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With Face Upturned (Tanka)
with face upturned and wooden with cold I meet winter as each star blinks out behind the first snow ◊ Linked to Carpe Diem Ghost Writer #35, where I was honored to be able to introduce Otagaki...
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Mountain Roared / Roads Glisten (Haiku)
then the mountain roared: flames of snow burn the forest and the farmlands, too ◊ the roads glisten where the silver dragon hissed – fog on the mountain Linked to Carpe Diem Special #119: Tomas...
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Spiraling Snowflakes / On a Crisp Morning (Haiku)
spiraling snowflakes – the path of water striders on a rippling creek ◊ on a crisp morning the whirligigs are bouncing – cold water, boiling Linked to Carpe Diem Little Creatures #13: Whirligig...
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Dream in a Dream / Dissolve (Tan Renga)
Linked to Carpe Diem Tan Renga #61: A Dream in a Dream. Our task was to add two lines (in approximately 7/7) to Georgia’s wonderful hokku: a dream in a dream sand slipping through old fingers autumn...
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