Category: Tournesol dans un jardin

Sunday reflections (troibun) Daily Moments March 4, 2018

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©Clr’18
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©Clr’18
Image may contain: ocean, cloud, sky, outdoor, water and nature
©Clr’18

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walking on her usual path to the bus stop, she rolls  her beaded bracelet with two fingers, whispering. At first she looks up at the sky, then notices the trees and branches waving shyly. Images of Amma floats in front of her, smiling…always smiling. Her mind is like a field of bumper cars going, coming and crashing. She has to slow down and whisper louder to block the distractions that clutter her mind.

Amma is known for her embrace but also for her compassion and humanitarianism

After several series, she is in her own world, sitting on the bus, watching the ice patches floating on the Saint Lawrence. Another mega bridge is being built parallel to the one the bus is crossing. All those men working in the cold. She shivers at the thought.

clouds holding secrets
Mother Nature knows
Snow, rain or hail

clouds holding secrets
Chaos in the world
Tears from heaven

Mother Nature knows
How it will all end
Sins we committed

Snow, rain or hail
March wavers tween two seasons
always be prepared

 

© Tournesol’18/03/04

Written for Haiku Horizons: prompt is hail

Daily Moments – Sunday reflections – (troibun) A troibun is a term I use to term a haibun but rather than having haiku within the text, I have a Troiku which is a new form of haiku created by my mentor, Chevrefeuille at CarpeDiemHaikuKai

February 8 2018. Daily Moments – California goodbyes

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Beauty slips slowly (troiku)

Beauty slips away
Leaving me nostalgic
Until tomorrow

Beauty slips away
Last glimpse
I hold my breath

Leaving me nostalgic
That last page of a novel
Like saying goodbye

Until tomorrow
But how many will remain
sunsets

© Tournesol ‘18/02/05

Daily moments- twilight and me (troiku)

Land of Oz (troiku)

(C)Clr’18-02-04

Snow covered roads
Brisk winds carry me
Down South

Snow covered roads
Skilled drivers
With nerves of steel

Brisk winds carry me
Despite
Ice tipped wings

Down South
Like leaving Kansas
For the land of Oz

© Tournesol’18/02/04

A girl called gift (troibun)

This photo challenge inspired this story…from MindLoveMiserysMenagerie at Sunday Writing

Life was intolerable. Little One could no longer let this happen to her. This was the last time she would sit still while being violated; she did not cry herself to sleep tonight like most nights. Instead, she sang a chant the old lady in the village taught her. The Elder told her as she knitted on her porch,”These words bring home justice…always, If you chant this chant 10,000 times in a row without interruption.” The old lady gave her turquoise mala beads, “Here, these beads will ensure your safety if you chant as I have instructed.” She held her gift preciously all the way home.

Little One took the beads from under her pillow and began chanting. She pulled the curtain beside her bed to let in the light of the full moon. The universe kept her up all night…by sunrise, she was chanting her last set. It was quiet. The house would not come alive for another hour. She had time…

Her backpack had all her necessities had been packed for months, hidden under her bed. She dressed quickly and slipped out the back door and made her way to her secret place by a pond in the woods behind her house.

Sitting by the pond
Heart filled with hope
A lotus blossoms

Sitting by the pond
Birds chirp happily
Morning songs

Heart filled with hope
Frog sits on a lily pad
At peace

A lotus blossoms
Exhales equanimity
Touched by an angel

©Tournesol’18-01-30

winter scenes

daily moments Jan 19 2018 winter scenes

yesterday
sighs of wonder
form curly white puffs

a winter scene
snow drops onpine cones
hoot of a snowy owl

nature’s masterpiece
fusing with the current
impermanence reigns

season’s beauty
frozen in time
in my mind

©Tournesol’18/01/25

Daily Moments – January 19/18 Nature’s Life Lesson (troiku)

©Clr’18

yesterday
winter watercolours
today a memory

yesterday
sighs forming
flow with the current

winter watercolour
once frozen in time
now a puddle

today a memory
nothing lasts forever
change is constant

©Tournesol’18/01/19
Daily Moments – January 19/18 Nature’s Life Lesson

End of year reflections (troibun)

(C) Clr’17

December 26, 2017

Family gathered last night for dinner.  Was it out of tradition  or duty more than yearnings?   Some with childlike passion and wonder, some giddy with holiday excitement and one with a sharp tongue dripping with  masked humour hurting the target who’s left screaming silently with a heavy heart.

Where has love gone
Forgiveness and bygones…lost
Tales of yesterday

December 27, 2017

Honey, it’s cold outside at minus 19 C with the wind chill feels like minus 27C. Each day since Christmas it gets colder. Nothing to talk about except the weather. She sits in her mother’s rocker with the paisley covered cushions; she tries to write but nothing feels right and certainly nothing filled with holiday cheer. She thought of journaling but same difference, grey tones mixed with dark notions not fitting for this time of year.

White landscapes
A winter wonderland
Outside her window

Lethargy filled days catching up with much needed rest. Sleeping, reading, daydreaming, weeping and watching movies filled her days. Whenever she tried to write, only the pain resurfaced, and so she escaped in her dreams and her stories on the screen.

Cutting the current
In her brain
she finds relief
A winter wonderland
Outside her window

December 29, 2017

Knits her thoughts
wrapped in melancholy
she waits

knits her thoughts
dropping stitches one by one
a new year

wrapped in melancholy
masking old wounds
and forgiveness

she waits
tic toc tic toc
countdown to midnight

December 30th. 2017

Time freezes
Subzero temperatures
For awhile

Time freezes.
Midnight revellers
Numbed with champagne

Subzero temperatures
memories
In perpetuity

For awhile
Until twenty eighteen
A new chapter

(c) Tournesol’17-12-30

Daily Moments December 26th to December 30, 2017

Getting to know you and me…

A friend of mine posted these questions on her facebook page.  To answer I thought it would be nice to post here and invite anyone in the blogging community to participate…skip some if it feels too personal.

 

 

  1. Favourite smell? A newborn’s skin,  home baked bread and leather

  2. Last time you cried? Two nights ago

  3. Favourite Pizza? Mushroom

  4. Favourite flower? Daisies

  5. Favourite animal? Not fair because it’s equal…cat and dog

  6. Did you go to college? Yes, university

  7. Untie your shoes when taking them off?  Sometimes

  8. Roller coaster? Definitely NOT

  9. Favourite ice cream? Laura Secord chocolate chip

  10. Shorts or jeans? Jeans

  11. What are you listening to? Lady in Satin, Billie HolidaY

13) What Christmas cds are you listening to this year?  Aretha Franklin – Silent Night

  1. Tattoos? Not yet

  • Hair colour ? Silver\blonde

  • Eye Colour? Blue

  • Favourite food to eat?  Langoustine and rice

  • Favourite holiday? Easter

  • Beer or Wine? Organic beer

  • Night owl or morning? Night owl

  • Favourite day of the week? Sunday and it is also the day I was born in my Grandmother’s bed

  • Do you have a nickname? Cher, Lynn and my grandmother called me “La Grand Jaune”

  • Favourite season? Spring because I was born in March…a rebirth every year

  • Favourite place to get away? California

  • Missing someone? My mom (especially this time of year)

  • Dream vacation? Southern India, Southern Ireland, Australia and Brazil

  • What would you do if you won the lottery? Buy a house for both my adult children, set aside a trust fund for my grandson when he turns 25 or if he goes to college; buy a studio condo in Montreal, a cottage in Easter Townships and studio in southern India (Kerala) and another studio in California – Mendocino county.

  • Regrets? Yes, and have learned from them and I’ll probably come back to right them in another life

  • Middle name? Patricia

  • Go back to secondary school? Not really

  • Ocean or lake? Ocean

  • Who do you think will do This? Not sure but it is fun

    • Copy and paste into your status and change my answers if you are posting this in Facebook.

    Silent Sunday – 7 Days of B & W Photos

    I was challenged last week to post 7 days of B&W photos, with no people or comment on Facebook. Here are the 7 days where I will describe briefly where the photo was taken.

    Day 1 of 7 B & W Photos – shop on boulevard St Laurent, Mile End, Montreal, Qc.

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    ©Clr’17/12/01

    Day 2 of 7 B & W Photos – view from my birth home – Yamaska River, Farnham, Qc.

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    ©Clr’17/12/2

     

    Day 3 of 7 B&W Photos — rue St Denis, Montreal, on my way to work

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    ©Clr’17/12/3

     

    Day 4 of 7 – B & W photos – boul de Maisonneuve, Montreal facing le Pont Jacques Cartier

    ©Clr’17/12/4

    Day 5 of 7 of B & W Photos – my front balcony

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    ©Clr’17/12/5

     

    Day 6 of 7 of B| & W Photos – My home with my BFF (best feline friend posing)

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    ©Clr’17/12/6

    Day 7 of 7 of B & W Photos –  The restaurant in my office building (Mile End, Montreal, Qc.)

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    ©Clr’17/12/7