Autumn's chance meeting Eyeing each other, agog Under cloudy skies Lillian is the host of dVerse' Open Link Night. Linking this to it.
Category: haiku
Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, August 28th 2019, waterfall
Dry hard mountain but its mossy waterfall keeps it misted and fresh. * A mountain's tears are cried for ten thousand years -- even the clouds weep. * Angels ride waterfalls down mountainsides, hidden in the morning mist. * Astronauts surprised -- waterfalls look like trickles on pebbles. * Immortan Joe* laughs; He's gated the… Continue reading Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, August 28th 2019, waterfall
Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, 8/21/19, love ultimate and dVerse OLN
Ultimate Love (Dutch website; photo © unknown) For My Sons I'd give my life for you without a thought; live on -- sometimes think of me. You Make Me Sparkle Experiencing your laugh lights every fiber of me, like fireworks. A Prayer Knowing your grace keeps me human. Feeling loved, I beam it back to… Continue reading Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, 8/21/19, love ultimate and dVerse OLN
Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, August 7th 2019, daisies
A million yellow- cushioned buttons, white-framed polka-dotted carpet. * yellow featureless faces, wearing white bonnets look up in the field * A sea of white with yellow polka-dots -- a bird's eye view. * Warm summer winds -- music that makes daisies hula, dreaming Hawaii. * Yellow, white, green a perfect summer outfit sunny field… Continue reading Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, August 7th 2019, daisies
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai — Fields of Flowers
image link textured color rainbow or monochrome -- happy, tired bees drone * sea of white lilies sweet waves rise in warm afternoon -- calls bees to swim * summer flowers, colorful and social, cluster across fields * Pollack's ideas whispered to him from flowers – color-splashed canvas. * Ants and grasshoppers dine under colored… Continue reading Carpe Diem Haiku Kai — Fields of Flowers
Carpe Diem #1703 skinny dipping in the moonlight
our ripples flutter like angels wings as we merge under moon's wise gaze luna's spotlight shines on ecstasy's theater moans accent stillness land long forgotten our skin shrivels, waterlogged our mouths stay warm evening loons pass accepting our presence as part of the night nighthawks wait for us our cavorting disturbs fish easy midnight snacks… Continue reading Carpe Diem #1703 skinny dipping in the moonlight
Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, July 10th 2019, friendship
laughter and straw hats navigate festival crowds fun weather friends whiskey and ears navigate breakup tears all-weather friends coffee and muffins friends laugh while infants play at their mothers' feet anything happens feel first, then think of sharing with my best friend a real friend's advice more precious than gold no pyrite suspected quiet cafe… Continue reading Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, July 10th 2019, friendship
Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, June 26th 2019 … sun bathing with link to dVerse OLN
Sun Bathing Sunlight's magnet pulls our clothes off as if metal. Skin burned in toaster. Our beach blankets lie close enough to cool wet sand to feel the wind's chill. All-sized birds sunbathe; regardless, clothing optional – tan lines or no? Surf's constant shushing is sunbather's lullaby -- soft blanket's cradle. Sunscreen is poison; sunlight… Continue reading Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, June 26th 2019 … sun bathing with link to dVerse OLN
Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, June 19th 2019, summer solstice
Summer's Goddess Blesses with her golden orb Heals us with her light * Golden zenith rains On fields of blossoming green -- Cornucopia * Darkness gets cheated While long summer days play Owlsongs are cut short * Solstice strawberries Are the deepest red -- and sweet! Shortcake's dance partner * Spring's asparagus gone Solstice berries… Continue reading Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, June 19th 2019, summer solstice
Santa Agua
Image by enriquelopezgarre from Pixabay When I attended college in Spain, I was blessed enough to stay in a "dorm" room at the Palacio del Santa Agua. The palace was built as a public monument to life-giving water when an 80-year drought had afflicted the area. During the drought, the mango fields withered and even… Continue reading Santa Agua
