Category: Daily moments

Daily moments – lost innocence (haibun)

Today, she sits in quiet contemplation. A day of rest for the body and yet, the heart remembers stories of untold secrets that remain silenced. Too many pieces to that puzzle missing, she sighs, wishing she could do more…

no one could resist
weeping
 lost innocence

no one could resist
dancing to wise women’s song
free the children

Somehow, that song and action to free other children around the world soothed her…for today.

Daily moments also written for the secret keeper: (5) Words: | SONG | WOMAN | FREE | NO | LOST |

letting loose (haibun) Song Lyric Sunday – Daily Moments June 26 2016

 

She can’t help it. Every time she hears that song, she is reminded of the gas bar scene, the footloose extravaganza and pure, innocent bliss.

 

head starts shaking
foot tapping and shoulder rolls,
smile forms on my lips

©Tournesol’16/06/26

What a treat to see this prompt on LindaGHill’s blog – Song Lyric Sunday Theme “happiness”

Daily Moments June 26 2016 – letting loose  (Haibun)

bonne Saint Jean (haiku) daily moments

(c) Clr'16
(c) Clr’16

children squealing
school`s out
time to play

time to play
dancing in the street
fireworks at night

fireworks at night
summer’s here – celebrate
Bonne Saint-Jean

(c) Tournesol’16-06-24

Daily Moments – Bonne St Jean (haiku)

June 24 2016

savouring milk moon (haibun) Daily Moments June 19 2016

 

(c)Clr'16-06-19
(c)Clr’16-06-19

 

Sitting on the balcony at 3 am praying for a soft breeze. Leaves are still, hardly a waver until a sudden breeze makes one believe there is more to come. Times like this, makes more sense to set up a cot and sleep under the elm. It’s a special time, this week for her. Summer solstice falls close to her mother’s birthday, June 22nd. It is as if the moon is glowing in celebration of a blessed soul.

canicule en juin
rien de mieux pour apaiser
une nuit blanche
éclat d’une lune quasi pleine
solstice d’été

June heatwave
nothing better to pacify
sleepless night
glow of a moon almost full
summer solstice

(c) Tournesol’16-06-19

Daily Moments – savouring milk moon

Daily Moments June 18 2016 bittersweet day (tanka)

(c)Clr’16

sunny June day
mixed with emotions
bitter and sweet
perfect cycle of life
beginnings to endings

Daily Moments June 18 2016 bittersweet day

Spica shines (haiku

moon floats
glow of Spica
all night long

inspires words
near the heart
wanting mind consumes

©Tournesol’16/06/14

The Secret Keeper INSPIRE | NIGHT | MIND | NEAR | WANT |

Daily Moments June 14 2016  Spica Shines

Daily Moment June 11 2016 Treasures never expire Troiku

tied with red yarn
words from long ago
love letters

tied with red yarn
those liquid blues melt
her beating heart

words from long ago
feel like
just yesterday

love letters
indigo on paper
all worth the wait

©Tournesol’16/06/11

Daily Moment June 11 2016 Treasures never expire Troiku

recipe for a home (tank-Art)

©Clr'16
©Photo credits – HallMark

 

a new house needs
dollops of harmony
buckets of love
painting every wall
draping each window

traces of you
fragrance of each of you –now!
you may call it “HOME”

©Tournesol’16/06/08

Congratulations to a dear colleague in her new home!

saying goodbye to a friend (haibun)

 

A friend and colleague is leaving the workplace nest…time to discover other adventures.  Although she will be terribly missed, it is such an exciting journey ahead.

© Clr'15
© Clr’15

caterpillar rests
absorbing nature’s bounty
waits at the crossroad
drenched in strength and symmetry
butterfly’s next odyssey

©Tournesol’16/06/08

Daily Moments – June 8 2016 Saying goodbye to a friend (tanka)

Voracious predators (haibun)

 

(c) '16-05-13
(c) ’16-05-13

 
She was so proud of her beautiful lilies and loved to sit by the patio window and admire each new blossom that appeared each day.  But then she was puzzled one fine morning, noticing holes in the leaves…she could not see any insects and hoped the rain that day would wash away whatever was nibbling away at her Mother’s Day bouquet.

A few days later, she saw an insect and thought at first it was a beetle…a harmless little potato bug.  A few days later, however, she thought differently…

©Clr`16 Scarlet Beetle
©Clr`16 Scarlet Beetle

perplexed invasion
outlandish as this may seem
Eurasian bugs skulk
nibble on leaves of lilies
voracious scarlet beetles

©Tournesol’16/06/08

Daily Moments – June 8 2016 – Voracious predators

Three Word Wednesday – Perplexed, outlandish, nibble