Poetry ~ Waka
Our host has introduced Karunesh – Magic Fields as our inspiration to write a haiku. Here is our host’s offering:
magic is in the air
the sweet perfume of autumn
brings ecstasy
© Chèvrefeuille
nature’s glory
whispering grace,
mystic fields
© Tournesol ’14
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© Tournesol ’14
A story and haiku both written in English and in French.
When I saw this photo taken by Georgia at Basket and Sekhmet’s Library, I had to smile. I had taken a phto of 2 pay phones in the Métro last Spring. The fact that these are near such a lovely green space stirred contradictions…beauty, ugliness, pleasure and pain and this is what my muse came up with for Bastet’s Shadorma Prompt at MindLoveMiserysMenagerie.
(shadorma)
Assaults lurk
In the dead of night
behind trees
far from phones
cyclists never heard her screams
would have dialed for help.
(senryû)
predators always
study their territory
and their prey.
(shadorma)
phones by parks
gives false illusions
of safety
late at night
listen up! one`s never safe
when monsters still breathe
© Tournesol ’14
Now to make this fun a little and give me more of a challenge, I am adding my photos of these phones in the Métro. Having looked at them, my muse seems fixated on sad affairs.
(shadorma)
unused phones
ever see someone
actually
Use a phone?
subways are sometimes seedy
all’s in the open
(senryû)
people make believe
blind to sordid actions
“I ain’t seen nothin’”
(shadorma)
Unless there`s
a Samaritan
does good deeds
calls for help
shouts out loud scaring monsters
back into their hole.
(tilus)
Wherever you go, bring
along a
friend.
© Tournesol ’14
Originally posted at Tournesol dans un Jardin, by Cheryl-Lynn Roberts
This prompt is a tan renga challenge. Our host, Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, has chosen a haiku written by Magical Mystical Teacher (MMT).
It was her response on this haiku by Basho:
how rare!
on leaving the mountain
the first eggplant
MMT’s response haiku was the following:
how rare the sight—
yellow blossoms brushing
the sky with light
© MMT
now we are to write a tan renga two lines of 7 syllables to this haiku. Our host`s tan renga is here:
how rare the sight—
yellow blossoms brushing
the sky with light (MMT)
I always will love her
underneath the Laburnum (Chèvrefeuille)
I struggled with various responses because I had several images of “yellow blossoms” from my personal life. So I broke it down to two and here they are:
Across the street from the church at my hometown, there is a small garden by the river, with various flowers. I remember taking a picture in June of the lovely yellow lilies and wished I could come back later in the summer to catch the flora at its peak in blossoming. Well, I did not but here is snapshots from June.
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how rare the sight—
yellow blossoms brushing
the sky with light (MMT)
Across the church, newly weds
yellow lilies cheer them on.
(c) Tournesol ’14
Of course there are also lovely daisies and sun roots in my friend’s garden in Bromont facing several mountains. This is where we went to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary last Sunday. A huge tent was pitched next to the Willow tree…what a lovely day celebrating such a lovely couple. To this day, I have never met a loving couple like these two people. You can feel the love they share. They still cuddle and always hold hands sitting close together.
how rare the sight—
yellow blossoms brushing
the sky with light (MMT)
Underneath the Willow tree
sun roots scan the mountains.
(c) Tournesol ’14
Originally posted at Tournesol dans un Jardin
Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge #47, MMT’s “how rare the sight”
Life as you see it
may not be in my
line of vision.
don’t see eye to eye
differences of opinion
just a different lens
why must you argue
over and over and
over again?
wars have erupted
for far much more
and much less
what are you waiting forÉ
mediate for peace now
love, hate, greed
trigger some form of hell
we can all avoid.
© Clr – Tournesol `14/08/17
© Tournesol
Originally posted by Cheryl-Lynn at Tournesol dans un jardin
(c) Tournesol
Originally Posted by Cheryl-Lynn Roberts ’14/08/17 at Tournesol dans un jardin
