Kasuga Wakamiya On-Matsuri Festival ~ passepartout.travel
A goblet of crops
motley-dressed fest on the street
guided to the shrine
Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI Kasuga Wakamiya Festival
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Friday, October 30, 2015
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Breadcrumbs trail
etsy.com
Daytime saving
bread crumbs I prepared for birds
one hour back
Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI
Chichibu Night Fest
*
Clatter
the
castanets, drums
enliven
hearts.
**
Chichibu
Night love-
red curtain
behind
floating
lanterns.
***
Firework
highlights
flickering
eyes
of darkness.
Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Sail your smile in the air *
'Sail Boats' by Valda Fitzpatrick ~ pinterest.com
When early cheerful birds break the eggshell of
morning
routinely mingle with clock’s ‘tick-tock’, - the
bustle enliven me, even if I’ve been drinking only one cup of coffee yet lit up lavender candle with late regret of suspended moment…
When early cheerful birds scattered to first morning
class,
the school attendant, not placid crow cowing - proclaims
silence – the rain desired before, dies… leaving nondescript grey
remnants in air to the discretion of magpie tales and quirks….
Along with birds
Mimicking “I’m great” pose,
I sail my smile in the air…
On the spot
'Raven flying home' by Lindsey Kustusch
*
Nondescript
grey day
Under the
raven’s wing -
A puddle.
**
A puddle
Mirroring a
placid sky –
The quirky
life.
Read more at: 3WW, CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI : haiku technique 'shasey'
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Taiko Matsuri
*
Taiko Matsuri
Abundant
autumn harvest
Thanks
giving!
**
Taiko-dio
floats
Shoulders of
100 men
Moving in
unison.
***
Sun, clouds
& rain
Team up show
Nature's blessings!
Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI
Hiroshima remembered...
*
The Lanterns
on the water
Sailing Long
Letters Home
One way…
**
The moment of
silence
Remembering,
Earth breathes
Hiroshima…
Friday, October 23, 2015
Farewell
pinterest.com
*
Drifting clam
shell
we send
farewell
ebb and flow.
**
When the sun
goes down
by the
waterfront line
the
footprints.
Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI
Ava Odori
*
He mimes
controlling
A Live
choreography
Kite dance.
**
Crisp kick
behind
Restrictive
kimono
Gestures to
sky.
***
Turning in no time
Cartwheels
& somersaults
Omnipresent spirits.
Note: Ava Odori - Dance festival in Japan. Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI
Shared with PU Poetry Pantry
Shared with PU Poetry Pantry
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Tanabata
pinterest.com
*
Rain falls on
Orihime
weaving again
the rupture
tales.
**
A flock of
magpies
carries on to other side
of the story.
of the story.
***
Milky Way
deepen
two
star-crossed lovers
Tanabata.
Note: Tanabata - Star Festival. Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Stargazer
etsy.com
Stargazer's tallest cap
cheers many stars arrived
to celebrate a fall.
Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI #176
she - fall...
She – fall-
ing
with
a
tree…
yellow…
maple…
leave after leave,
the fantasy
of free
chains changing
to field;
recollection begins,
when between eyes
of two alike days
the lightning glimpse
with sunny rain,
or first frost at
crispy track
alters/creates
a new pattern,
the mark
of new facet.
Its music reminds
the ancient revels’ flow,
the prophecy/foliage
at the earth altar
autumn will throw.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
...a little taller
Harvest Moon above the Chicago Harbor Light ~ Carpe Diem Haiku Kai
Intrigues
Multiplied
like summer flies
Blotches at
the moon
*
The path
untraveled
Outside the
Earth orbit
Lighthouse
dream
Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI #174
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Carving soul
d'Verse Poetic ~ Carved in stone
I’ve sensed your soul
in the depth of the
century
Promoted the den(s) city
to family falling
rocks, mountains
Shoulders, spine bent
long ears – open
to farewell
Crushed
in the grinder
of age
A m a z e… we found
unconsciously follow
in the spiral
of carving…
Synesthesia
Pablo Picasso. Music painting
“Why do two colors,
Put one next to the other
Sing?...”
P. Picasso
1.
I speeding up every time
Nearby the Hwy 169
A coffee shop.
2.
I swiftly sink
In the flowerbed
Such a fresh aroma.
3.
His eyes caught the smell
The particles of burnt out maple leaves
Landed on the asphalt.
4.
I saw your breath
Sahara warmth
My shoulders loose.
5.
Radiant aura
Around treetop on the hill
When she spoke.
6.
Heavy steps on the stairs
In her heart chamber
Still knight approaching.
Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI #14 ~ Synesthesia
Sharing with PU Poetry Pantry
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Edges
You said: we must cut
the sharp edges
to smooth the life of
the risk and trial
(in your near-sight-
edness)…
Instead we got double
efforts, and querying:
how to overcome
underwater rocks
and craters, escape
the pokes of
wicked spindle…
you said: now,
in no time,
we can afford
the lethargic sleep
for (another?) 100 years…
Monday, October 12, 2015
Vacillate no more!
George Tooker, self-portrait
fantasy
fantasy
My place, where I live now, is in the ravine.
Any wondering anemic katydid delays the leap, when
sense the twitching placenta over it….
Once inexplicable melancholy took hold on me. I found
in a stash the written mantra. It assisted me in the
transformation…
The shell – an artifact, belong now to the museum of
human limitations.
Metamorphosis
Human intervention
Shell limits.
Wordle #82 ~ Mindlovemisery's Menagerie
Read more at: Magpie Tales, Mindlovemisery's Menagerie Wordle #82
Saturday, October 10, 2015
To ride or not to ride...
photography-on-the-net
Wasn't it odd?
tracing the patterns,
curves
through vicinity -
pond erring
shorebirds
on the mudflats,-
we pandered
our whimsy.
Wandered on dunes,
between the cabins,
the distance -
illusion,
natural wonders
behind
the thin wall
of a reason...
Whirligig # 28 ~ by MMT
Friday, October 9, 2015
One of a kind
If you asked for a chocolate, but got only the lemons –
grimaced, teeth set on edge - keep on walking on the curb, bypassing the debris
of the construction area – open unpaved road/skin, wind world wide…
‘corn candy hot tube’,- he’s saying distinctly and
point in a new school’s direction, red with orange blues leaves installation,
‘so they’ll melt then…why?’ – she shrugs, hands
endless in air.
The sun highlighting preschooler’s smile, and nearby
cloud become a face of someone familiar from afar…
Enchanted road!
See! – the staring deer, not asking for tickets yet; a turkey, crossing the road in a rush; a dog on the
grass – the face sealed with white royal stamp, - hosting the morning, his invisible human stopped him from ranting…
The trees whispering fall foliage forecast, - still
time to change…
The mystery lives just next to my neighborhood –
Nature and human
Vulnerable, wise
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Time lingo
wallartidea.com
You woke me up. Instead of weightless soft lips - gimleting text buzz, ricocheted off in the right hip. The vibes have
shifted. The recent changes I’ve gone through seemed were not enough…
For only one day I've lost a new, only 3 months old job, but acquired 4 new students. Time indeed got squeezed. Though the headlight
accidently was set with 60 sec. delay, as said the mechanic at the dealership.
There were no emotions produced by thoughts. I hung in limbo, remembering to breathe. Only by evening, exchanging messages with the
friends, crying and laughing simultaneously, I felt a relief.
The new day’s rain drummed cheerfully on the tops of
the roofs, celebrating last days of Mercury retrograde.
The growing can be lighthearted…
Intermission…
Only a reflection pause
Before a new act.
Monday, October 5, 2015
Twilight of memory *
Khalil Gibran ~ autoportret ~ 1911
…While reaching the hilltop they began to climb and
dance,
tired lambs
turned in painless…
Once discovered, the path was already on the other
side
of threshold of mind…
Deeper song
when life and death are one
sea between souls
* Note: written for d'Verse Haibun Monday2, hosted by Bjorn, inspired by Khalil Gibran quotes.
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Clocked threat
Watch his erotic hands…
They high-light the fragments,
Poke with the needle threat
Our lives
& whims.
Eye for Eye -
Days gone
dark,
Leaves change
colors
As the thief –
gloves & dreams.
Read more at: Sunday's Whirligig 27
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Recollection
Sabin Balasa. Freedom in the Aquarium, n.d. WikiArt
The fort open wood gate
uneven sand paths
When sun swiftly surfed
beneath pastel skies
Free versed we cruised
as the black swans of sea
In earthy aquarium
the splatters of we.
*
Sun surfing.
Aquarium. Earth.
Reversed time
cruised under
focal, the pastel blue sky -
reminiscing joy.
Notes: The last 6 lines - shadorma 3/5/3/3/7/5
Read more at: B&P's Shadorma & Beyond: Shadorma Summation
Shared with PU Poetry Pantry
Friday, October 2, 2015
Soul Song
I’m humming…
When a body
put
a pressure on
me,
when its
conditional
chain armor
shows
in disguise
ostensibly
the
programmed,
squeezed,
frozen me…
I’m humming…
an eye into
sky,
a beak knocks
in the glass
helmet –
I’m humming…
yellow in the
blue,
penetrating
the time, dimensions
step
skipping, leap,
flit flutter
fly
through
leafs, lives,
the transient
path…
Notes: I was inspired by photo and quote I found on Carrie's Van Horn blog "A Net Full of Butterflies". Thank you, Carrie!
Thursday, October 1, 2015
A touch
Lion love
When I touch him…
a chin lies on the chest,
swelled love drops,
foggy thoughts,
leaning toward,
asleep…
while music on,
people move
in the rhythm flow..
When I touch him -
He awakes.
When I touch
his shoulders
offering to heal…
what was that
challenged him,
his creative will,
what’ve come up
as a block
to protect the past,
to resist the change…
“Everything
I touch
let become a gold”
mantra/chant/exhale
Let the issues go;
open to be healed
let the light in.
Read more at: PU Mid-Week Motif
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