lily pads
nature’s gondola
lovers’ rendezvous
lovers’ rendezvous
roll out the green carpet
lotus greets her prince
© Tournesol’16/04/14
L is for Lotus (haiku)
Category: Blogging from A to Z
K is for Kite (Haibun)
He walks to the beach with his little guy whose eyes are wide and sparkling. The sun is glowing and there is a gentle breeze. “Just perfect”, his grandfather says.
blues and yellows flap,
waving gently to the clouds
little boy’s first kite
© Tournesol’16/04/13
J is for Joy (Troibun)
Life offers many joys. One just has to stop and notice they are here even in the saddest times, under grey clouds and personal strife. She shuffles reflecting on her solitude wistfully aiming for the city park.
(troiku)
sitting on a park bench
giggling children
joy etched on lips
sitting on a park bench
swallows chirp
telling stories
giggling children
skipping, running joyfully
tag you’re it
joy etched on lips
brings new life
spirit glows
©Tournesol’16/04/12
My haiga for this prompt at Carpe Diem:
giggling children
swallows telling stories
paints joy on lips
I is for Iris (Blogging from a to z challenge)
suckling nectar
lazily
bee on an iris
bee on an iris
quenched – embraces
rainbow of colours
rainbow of colours
giggling children searching
pot of gold
(c) Tournesol ’16-04-11
H is for Haiku (Blogging A to Z Challenge 2016)
helps me breath
savour nature’s moments
writing haiku
G is for Generosity ( Troiku) Daily Moments April 8 2016
G is for Generosity (troiku)
generosity
precious moments
selfless acts
generosity
is giving
without a receipt
precious moments
priceless gems
diamonds in the sky
selfless acts
warm the heart
feed the universe
© Tournesol’16/04/08
Daily Moments – April 8 2016 – Blogging from A to Z
Daily Moments – F is for Fed-up (haibun) Day 7 of NaPoWriMo
F is for Fed up of the Mister Winter raining on her spring!!! Rain, snow, ice pellets, sunshine and drizzle and last night she walks home with blowing snow and snow building on the ground. She’d heard of the forecast and thought little of it since she was sure the snow would melt hitting the streets of the city. Not so! Late that night, walking home from work, she cut across her short-cut to get to the Métro, avoiding her usual longer walk on the slippery streets and sidewalks. Walk was slow but arriving home, she notices someone waits with anticipation.
emerald eyes look out
snow flurries blur her vision
a loyal friend waits
(c) Tournesol ’16-04-07
E is for Emerald (Troibun) Day 6 NaPoWriMo
E is for Emerald and my mom’s favourite colour was green makes this post all the more meaningful. When I think of the word “emerald” however, I also think of Emerald City in the land of Oz which was the famous dream of Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. I was quite surprised when I read that this children`s book was published in 1900, written by Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. If you look at the illustrations, you can see the characters in the movie (1939) were pretty darn close.
Every October the movie played on television when I was growing up and my father would call my sister and me to come watch the movie with him and my mother. It was a tradition, sort of like The Sound of Music was with my children and other holiday classics.
Ah that Emerald City was the place where Dorothy would get all her problems resolved and get home to Kansas. How I loved her red patent leather shoes!! And the famous phrase was on the lips of many after a long trip, “There’s no place like home, There’s no place like home.”
No matter how many times I saw the movie, each time I would still fear that wicked old witch and her soldiers and those trees too!!! Oh, my goodness!!
I never realized how much that movie became a part of me until I was a young adult and read The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty and every night I was so scared of the devil (being Catholic we actually feared being possessed!) for three months after reading this book, I would cross my arms over my chest and repeat “I don’t believe in the power of the devil, I don’t, I don’t, I don’t” I became the Lion that lacked courage at 20 years old! I never could see the movie…if ever it was television and I turned the channel on that movie by mistake, just a few seconds hearing a deep voice coming out of that little girl, I would have nightmares for days! Yep, that’s how scared I was.
Emerald City was such a place to be and I loved the part where Dorothy is getting all prettied up ( my mother being a hairdresser made it even more meaningful). My mother loved Judy Garland (who played Dorothy) and even when her dementia was very advanced, I would sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow and her eyes came back to life.
Emerald City
somewhere over the rainbow
dancing with Mom
Emerald City
answer to all your wishes
come true
somewhere over the rainbow
leprechauns fight over
a pot of gold
dancing with Mom
turning back the clock
unforgettable
© Tournesol’16/04/06
Interestingly as I was looking for a word synonymous with never forgotten, I heard the voice of Nat King Cole crooning “unforgettable” in my mind, and just knew, Mom was near me at this very moment.
D is for daft (haibun) NaPoWriMo day 5, 2016
I realize the letter D is for Tuesday which is Day 5 of NoPoWriMo the prompt to talk about April being the cruelest month or choosing another month, seemed fitting to call April quite “DAFT” with the hot cold hot cold, like Mother Nature has hot flashes and has to stick her head in the freezer for a few minutes. So I used the Day 4 idea for Day 5…amen.
D is for DAFT
The weather this week is daft alright. Friday was a balmy 14C and sunshine. It was her first day off and she needed to rest. She looked at her grimy windows and thought, she would have time on the weekend to wash them. Now that would have been nice IF it was not windy and bloody cold at -5C. She walked to the grocery store to pick up a few things, wearing winter boots, gloves and her winter coat but refused to wear a hat. “Enough of this daft weather, she thought, I refuse to go back to winter.” Thank goodness she had a thick warm scarf to keep her neck warm but was it really enough?
5-3-5
frigid April day
braves March winds
truly a hat day
It was not unusual, however, to have snow in early April….the sky could hold clouds that may start as snow and end as rain. Ah, it was the transition from cold to mild. Perhaps even seasons go through endings and Mother Nature tries to soothe one season before letting go.
5-3-5
time to shuffle off
old father winter
let spring carpe diem
(c) Tournesol ’16/04/045
C is for crescent (Blogging from A to Z) haibun
Looking up at the sky she smiles having a sense the moon is smiling down on her. There is this pull that gravity resists and yet, if only she could, she would fly up above the stars and seek comfort in the arms of that man on the moon.
walks in dark alleys
crescent moon
still, glows on her path
© Tournesol ’16/04/04
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