Category: Haiku

goose feathers embrace (troibun)

Georgia (BastetamdSekhmet)  has been my friend from afar (Italy) and mentor in writing poetry of every form, having first discovered her through prompts at “We drink because we’re Poets”. It is through her I learned more about haiku and discovered Carpe Diem. I especially enjoy her morning haiku and  waka (Japanese poetry form) and here is one that I have chosen to share. This morning waka inspired me to compose this troiku.

morning chill
raindrops fall on these flowers
awaiting May warmth

laying in bed
listening to the raindrops
warm under the sheets
drifting in and out of sleep
so hard to leave my dreams

those chiming bells
echoing in this loneliness
their hollow call

© G.s.k. ‘16

vignette of mom signed

I chose this haiku and waka because it reminded me when I  would wake up from a  nice dream.  Many times I could go back to sleep and pick up from where I left off…but when my deceased mom visits in my sleep, I cannot seem to bring her back.

new dawn grips
throws me in hibernation
goose feathers embrace

new dawn grips
wilted petal drops
ending my dream

throws me in hibernation
seeking what is familiar
her warm presence

goose feathers embrace
playing make-believe
Mother’s still here

©Tournesol’16/06/06

Daily Moments – weekend’s end (senryu)

©Tournesol’16/05/05

tends to her garden
waiting for blossoms
home sweet home

parasites
invade her lilies
try to call it home

weekend ends
pleasant conversation
with a new friend

©Tournesol’16/06/05

reunion (tan renga)

First autumn morning
the mirror I stare into
shows my father’s face.
© Murakami Kijo

a tear trickles
recalling that last season

memories spool back
split second flicks
fast-forward

arrested in mind’s eye
a smile forms on our lips

©Tournesol’16/06/04

pont d’Avignon(troiku)

Saint-benezet in southeastern France.jpg
Wikipedia – Pont d’Avignon (St Benezet, Fr)

 

parfum d’été
sur le pont d’Avignon
bras enlaçant

parfum d’été
séduire
tous les sens

sur le pont d’Avignon
on y danse
tous en rond

bras enlaçant
désir muet sur ses lèvres
regard sur le Rhône

© Tournesol’16-06-04

summer’s fragrance
on the bridge of Avignon
arms entangled

perfume Summer
seducing
every sense

on the bridge of Avignon
dancing
round and round

arms entangled
silent desire on lips
gazing on the Rhone

field of flowers (haiku)

scented mayweed
wild flowers cast their spell
sleepy meadows

(c) Tournesol’16

 

first butterfly (haiku)

©Clr'16
©Clr’16

filled with life’s promise
fluttering butterfly rests,
suckling sweet nectar

©Clr’16/06/01

Daily Moments first butterfly   June 1 2016

Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille at MindLoveMiserysMenagerie

reflecting on may flowers (troibun

©Clr`16
©Clr`16

spreading  beauty
nature bows in honour
honeysuckles bloom

Thanking our host and mentor, Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai  for teaching and inspiring us to not only write haiku or other forms of Japanese poetry (waka) but to grow in the experience…as a good parent  he nurtures and breathes harmony and enlightenment among the family.

 

a lone flower
yearns to rise in splendour
field of sunflowers

a lone flower
searching for the sun
at one with nature

yearns to rise in splendour
embroidering each petal
one thread at a time

field of sunflowers
seventeen syllables
forming corolla

©Tournesol’16/06/01

Daily Moments – reflecting on May flowers- June 1 – 2016

Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu Looking Back

the artist’s touch (haiku)

©Clr’16

dusk enters slyly
paints magenta hues
covering the sky

on a clear night
lovers dare to dance
`til dawn

The Secret Keeper
(5) Words: PAINT, CLEAR, DARE, COVER, DANCE

waves crawl (tan renga)

do not doubt it,
the bay has its spring too,
the flowers of the tide
© Basho (1644-1694

languid whitecaps edging
coastline peonies

©Tournesol’16/05/30

do you remember? (troibun)

She remembers metals taps on the soles of her shoes, click click clicking on the sidewalk pretending to be Gene Kelly. Do you remember buying bubble gum for a penny? Oh! and for nickel, you could get an ice cream cone or a loaf of bread! She remembers scratchy feeling crinolines and hula-hoop slips…the latter you could not sit unless you wanted everyone to see your undies. Thanks goodness mini skirts came out…no room for crinolines!

She remembers when she was ten running to the chip wagon with a quarter and getting a small order of French fries and a hot-dog. Those were the days her mother was too busy in the beauty parlour…she loved those days and preferred this meal to Swanson’s frozen dinners where meat tasted like cardboard.

 

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She remembers watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show and falling in love with John; that’s when she bought his book of poems and fell in love with poetry.

Sonny and Cher in Soho Square, London to promote ‘The Beat Goes On’, late 1966 or early 1967. Photo by Jan Olofsson.:
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Do you remember Sonny and Cher. Those were the days the only fake thing Cher had were her eyelashes…how I found her so beautiful!! Did you know that her real name is Cherilyn? (Thought that might be an interesting tid-bit.)  She remembers her first love lasting twenty-eight years; married the year the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour started.

Do you remember when milk was delivered to the house in bottles? She remembers the bread man delivering to the house in a horse drawn cart. How she felt sorry for that horse who looked so tired and old! She remembers watching the fireworks at St-Jean Baptiste on June 24th and eating her nickel cotton candy!

Then came mini-skirts and fast cars, sit-ins and love-ins. Teenage love and wedding bells…baby carriage and empty nests…and suddenly grandchild  is soon entering high school!

(troiku)

time passes
such delight in innocence
like wind gusts

time passes
every year
spring returns

such delight in innocence
remembers
that first kiss

like wind gusts
taken by surprise-
how time has passed!

©Tournesol’16/05/30

Haiku Horizons “remember”

Daily Moments May 30 2016 “Do you remember” Troibun