Shattering Winter’s Night Candle numbers change But lighting is universal – Flame shatters dark * Winter Pheasant Gold, green, red contrast, Warm against the cold white – Loud cry breaks silence * Winter Holiday Evenings Cats curl, warm, sleeping Red green lights polka-dot fur – Mouse sugar plum dreams Frank J. Tassone is…
Category: haiku
#Haikai Challenge #115: Advent
Manger straw smells sweet Heaven’s choir rehearses Bethlehem’s star ascends Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haiki Challenge. Frank says: Here in the Northern hemisphere the darkness lengthens and deepens until December 21st. Then the days lengthen. Is that not a sign of hope? What better kigo for this week, then, but Advent? This…
#Haikai Challenge #110 — Halloween and Samhain
For Halloween: Opal days wane, carved faces shine thrice in moon’s light smiles sharing soul cake. For Samhain: Stubbled fields’ sun sets Cattle fall by bonfire’s glow Toasts raised to fiddles Fairies flit in warm shadows Nibbling apple nut bread. Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haiki Challenge. Frank says: This week,…
Bug-eyed — dVerse OLN
Autumn’s chance meeting Eyeing each other, agog Under cloudy skies Lillian is the host of dVerse‘ Open Link Night. Linking this to it.
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…
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…
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…
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