pensée du jour 14 février ’16 demeure aimée

maison plein d’amour
parsemée de son essence
mon âme sœur
~
house full of love
sprinkled with her essence
my soul sister

Daily Moments Feb 14 2016

Daily moments Feb 13’16 Cold Mountains (haiku)

brief peak at winter
bitter cold blows across the field
awe of the mountains

Daily Moments Feb. 13/16

Daily moments – Feb 10 16 –burden of thaws

After a week of spring thaw, winter resumes its course. Walking on the soft powdery snow, she shuffles slowly using its step as a human broom…swish, swish. The soft powder lifts lightly above her leather boots like a shower of white sparkling dust. Dust with spots of diamonds glistening in the soft light of the street lamps.

unusual thaws
ice weighs on spindly limbs
snap

©Tournesol’16/02/10 Daily Moments

tranquility (troiku)

© OliG'15 (Gaspé - marguerite) — © OliG’15 (Gaspé – marguerite)

field of daisies
arms spread wide
dancing in the wind

field of daisies
laughing at the sun
makes her smile

arms spread wide
chanting
Om Tat Sat

dancing in the wind
carefree
-and barefoot

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai “Spirituality”

Love has no borders (haibun)

I witnessed an act of kindness and an act of consciousness today. My heart fills with such joy and love it is bursting at the seams and the only way to establish some equilibrium to continue my shift at work, I am writing this narrative. This will be my offering to Karuna’s challenge on Love.

Today I was waiting for the bus and it was bitter cold with the winds felt like minus 20; I held my hood under my chin squinting now and then to see if the bus was turning the corner soon. A young man was walking towards me and stooped to pick a plastic bottle on the road in front of me. He went on his way with two items in his left hand. I looked at him in awe! If we all did this regularly, wouldn’t our world be cleaner? brighter? prettier? What an environmentally conscious person this was!!

Later I received a phone call from a young man who wanted advice on how to help a homeless teen he had met on the street. It certainly is NOT a day to be panhandling on the street for anyone today. He was concerned for this young person and wanted to know if there were shelters I could recommend. I suggested he try Covenant House since youths can stay up to three months and counsellors on staff might be able to help this youth settle into housing and get support. I also recommended our phone service since our phone lines were free and anonymous. Any information shared with us would never be reported since we do not have call display on our phones and we cannot trace calls either. All a youth has to do is dial from any public pay phone and it’s free and open 24/7.

I could not help but thank this caller for being so compassionate and generous he was for helping this youth and offering to bring him to get a hot meal. He said, it was just part of his training in advocating for youths. But I disagreed because this innate, it is not learned…compassion was part of who he was.

I am filled with so much love seeing people around me who are so giving and conscious on how we are all interconnected.

compassion
thrives like an epidemic
love has no borders

Written for Challenge for Growth Prompt #5: I am Love

Daily Moments Feb 7/16 – coming home (haiga)

Karuna's photo edited — Karuna’s photo edited

heavenly arms
embracing their new angel
welcome home

Daily Moments Feb 7 2016

Daily Moments Feb 6/16 – une colombe (Haibun)

Elle savait que sa mère, Colombe, qui aimait tous les enfants de tous âges, accueillera ce nouvel ange. Cela la consolait sachant que peut-être qu’elle sera là parmi sa famille qui ont déjà traversés au delà…

délaçant ses ailles
accueillant ce nouvel ange
cette colombe

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She knew her mother, Colombe, who loved children of all ages would be one of many to welcome this new angel. It comforted her knowing that perhaps, she really was there among his family who have already crossed over…

unlacing her wings
welcoming this new angel
this white dove

Daily Moments Feb 6/16 – Une Colombe