Birch alley

Birch alley ~  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

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Birch grove

figures stretched out

whispering

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Should I give it a try…      

rough bark on the grass

a birch wine

     

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fill me in

new path leads to crossroads

again

Read more at:  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI: Mysterious nature: Birch

rain falling

rain falling
who collects all grief
from the sky

* Create a haiku inspired on quote by Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC) :  “ Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

Read more at: MMLM Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille, Confucius

A lonely shore

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The boundaries

we built the castle of the sand

so brittle

a lonely shore won’t stay too long

impatient tide swish walls, and filter

life’s misery with love

*Use that quote:

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where

none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more." 

Quote by: Lord Byron "

Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI, Tokubetsudesu #85, Back in time: Use that quote  

A ghost deserving love

MLMM ~ Writing Prompt #165 ~ Collage #26

We are living in our head

after long meditation

an idea dived through the crown…

a headache riling

along hemispheres;

they say: conflict feelings-

priority matters

give it a name, a voice

express with confidence

you’ve earned in a hard way

driving a meat coated

skeleton made from stardust

through all bumps on the road

you are the Chariot,

sitting on both seats

at once

a ghost, deserving Love -

what do you have to be

scared of?

Read more at: MLMM, Writing Prompt #165, Collage #26

by the mountain spring

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by the mountain spring

we talk about the same things

just in other words

©Goda Virginija Bendoraitieue

interpreted as hearts leap

touching the base of tarn

©Humbird

Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI, Tan Renga Challenge #104

Back in time

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Summer fest

a princess weeping

under the willow

the whole oasis

near palm tree

passerby camels

a cruise-ship

Snow White route

over the rainbow edge

filled with yellow sunbeams

a shrine I built

in my prayer

* 12 words to use for this Tokubetsudesu haiku challenge

Summer giveaway

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~ 1 ~

June open

the summer giveaway steam

early this year

~ 2 ~

latte sun

I eager to drink

even in a steam weather

~ 3 ~

frozen in AC room

melted outside

a heart

sighing & bleeding

tears boiling in heaven

~ 4 ~

thunder at night

thousand raindrops at my threshold

questions, no answers yet

~ 5 ~

yesterday

the shadow overgrew me

at escalator

leading to “South Pacific”

the musical at “Gathrie”

~ 6 ~

furious seagulls

battle for crumbs at the seacrest-

splash!

Sharing with PU Poetry Pantry

a flash of lightning

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a flash of lightning –

passing through the darkness

a night heron’s scream

© Basho (1644-1694)

in the tense broken voice

a potion of eve

© Humbird

Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI, Tan Renga Challenge

uncertainty

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wind paused

entangled in her curls

on sunny day

the girl’s cheeks are blushing

in uncertainty

Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI: CD Special with Joyce Lorenson

before you fall apart...

MLMM ~ Writing Prompt #163, Collage #25

Cheer, cheer…

and cardinal appears -

a cycle, season’s call

keep faith

through year of days and nights

despite the errors

a broken branch

sometimes not fatal -

the sign of growth

a leaf, a fruit, a flower

you’re too big for fragile tree

stand tall – to feel your power

before you fall apart

the task – to recreate,

to plant new sprouts

Read more at: MLMM Writing Prompt #163, Collage #25

Shared with PU Poetry Pantry

the plum blossoms gone

Gogō-an, the cottage where Ryōkan lived from 1804 to 1816  

the plum blossoms gone,

they look older than they are,

ancient cottage eaves

©Ryokan Taigu (1758-18310

dropping by Temari ball

in Zen meditation

©Humbird

Read more at: CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI, Tan Renga Challenge #102 

Prosaic life

Writing Prompt #161 Collage #24 ~ Mindlovemisery's Menagerie

Alas, our life sometimes prosaic,

when we are not aware

of the wings behind…

…love bags, tears puddles

mirroring the only faith

as transportation,

the world around -

a lonely bird case;

sometimes a leap

to neighbor’s windowsill

where dry perfume in

shiny bottle

replaced  with undermined

bug! - such fate,

the scented path,

entrusted leaves entangled

in the hair, and open view

to powerful, but wore off

a hot air balloon,

the kind of parody on moon

I plan to catch in silky

Zodiac moon cycle

crystal grid

to carry me upward
                      to see the ground…

Read more at: Mindlovemisery's Menagerie Writing Prompt #161  Collage #24

at dusk

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at dusk

sun glides across the lake

day ripple smoothed out

Read more at CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI Special  "ripple in the lake" by Joyce Lorenson

Sunflowers

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Sunflowers

see-saw in the breeze

above us

the wilderness

olden times cast

in the grass

a secret of poem

squeezed in the fist

7 syllables-seeds

*Dedicated to 13th c. poet of Tuscany Brunetto-Latini

Read more at  CARPE DIEM's GINCO: EUROPE

Trust

pinterest.com ~ 'Rain of spring' by  Kouji Tomihisa

Trees entrust their secrets

the tears shine

in the puddles

sun peeking from the cloud

for queue to enter

the thunderstorm scene

today may come

the time to fill in a blank

all where? what? and how?

listening to ‘coo-coo’ song

I learn to move in small steps

Shared with CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI : Utabukuro episode/'poem bag'

first autumn morning

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First autumn morning

the mirror I stare into

shows my father’s face

©Murakami Kijo (1865-1938)

testimonials from soul view

ego refuse to surrender

©Humbird

Read more at:  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI, Tan Renga Challenge 

self-healing

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I open myself

folding hands in a prayer

for divine love & wisdom

chanting with words to heart

reading my soul desire

Read more at: Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille: prayer

a birdsong

                      a birdsong

lasts, from the treetop- ripples

after the bird left

Love in every cell

groves to horizon

Sharing with CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI