Luminescence – Tan Renga
Category: Tournesol dans un jardin
Tranquility-Haiku (Carpe Diem TackleItTuesday #1 Serenity)
Sri Swami Sivananda (1887-1963)
This week the first episode of Tackle it Tuesday is Serenity and it is based on the philosophy of Sri Swami Sivananda (1887-1963) who composed the song of the 18-ity. He was born in the south of India an studied medicine. He worked as a doctor several years in Malaysia. After that he settled in Rishikesh at the foot of the Himalayans where he devoted his life to yoga and the spreading of it.
The first ity was serenity and the goal was to meditate and contemplate about this ity and become silent. Every ity needs a week (or a month) to learn. After you have done all 18 ‘ity, you start again with number one and so on. There will become a time that you have changed into a better person, more in balance.
deep silence
at the top of the mountain
I discover myself
© Chèvrefeuille
centre on my breath
silence, picture open meadows
OM, I`m at one.
&
eyes closed
cross-legged, breath relaxed
tranquility
© Tournesol 2014/08/04
Persimmons (Haiku Shuukan )
I never heard of Persimmons before until this prompt.
Shiki apparently was also fond of Persimmons:
sanzen no haiku wo kemishi kaki futatsu
having examined
three thousand haiku poems –
two persimmons
© Shiki (1897)
kaki bakari narabeshi Suma no komise kara
displaying
only persimmons —
small store in Suma
© Shiki (1895)
After reading Georgia’s offering to this prompt, I was interested in reading her post. What a joy to read and see the photos she added of these fruit trees that grow in northern Italy as well as in Japan. Chèvrefeuille has certainly given us a challenging prompt.
At first I thought of not being capable of writing anything but Georgia’s lovely introduction describing Italy’s fruit trees and how these fruits do not conserve as well as our apples , I am piggybacking a bit on her story (hope that’s okay, Cara) and her photos that inspired me to write this:
Persimmons
over abundance of fruit
rot on lawns
rot on lawns
birds fill their bellies
Persimmons fruit
Persimmons fruit
gaudy orangey red
savour the sweetness
© Tournesol 2014/08/02
Clear (haiku)
Hopping rocks
clear cold creek
splash
&
cascades
clear ice blue water
beads of crystal
(c) Tournesol ’14-08-01
Full Circle (CarpeDiemHaikuKai Special#1)
© Sara Desjardins Photography
High Park’s cherry trees
blossoming midst rustling leaves
spilling a soft breeze.
summer solstice looms
lovers kiss on moonlit beach
make love thru the night.
lovers’ departure
last rendezvous’ send-off,
magic mushrooms
pine tree icicles
blizzard warnings outside
threaten fireworks.
© Clr – Tournesol
Vancouver’s Stanley Park is well known for their Cherry trees that were given as a gift from Japan but Toronto, High Park hosts also such a gift from Japan in 1959, having received 2000 trees. Check here, for the History of Sakura; Sakura Hanami is the Japanese translation for cherry blossom viewing or flower viewing. Click here to see the Sakura Watch at High Park 2014. The photos are exquisite!
Submitted for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special – Full Circle #1 where you have to use each work per LINE of a series of 4 haiku.
1. cherry
2. leaves
3. breeze
4. solstice
5. beach
6. love
7. departure
8. moon
9. mushrooms
10. icicles
11. blizzard
12. fireworks
for example of the first 3 words:
cherry blossoms bloom
between the young leaves –
the warm breeze
© Chèvrefeuille
Content (haiku horizons)
Haiku Horizons prompt “content”
Hot summer night
gentle waterfront breeze
content
thinks of you
frenzied brain quietens
inhales content
seeking contentment
tossing, turning, fretting
finally…sleep.
© Cheryl-Lynn ’14/07/21
Kittens (haiku-shuukan-11)
innocent kittens
climbing’s easy up up up,
stuck
~
playful kittens
delightful furry things,
full of life
© Cheryl-Lynn 2014/06/29
Never lose sight
Sitting here
contemplate
not so clear
roles of late
sitting here
I am, I am,
pondering
reflecting
weighing pros
and also cons
making sure
I don’t lose sight
of simple basic principles,
As I think of this tonight
I ask for some guiding light
and grace to finally see
make sure I never
ever ever
lose sight of things that matter.
© Cheryl-Lynn 2014/06/21
This was originally written for a prompt 51 at Pooky Poetry on Loss of Sense but I misunderstood obviously, yet decided to post it anyway.
Thoughts interrupted (puente)
Thoughts interrupted ( puente)
where shall I go from here
so many paths to choose
don’t want to upset anyone
~life’s filled with so much wonder~
summer festivals begin
jazz, blues, francophonie
time to hop and have some fun
© Cheryl-Lynn 2014/06/20
This is a new poetic form I am trying called the Puente (which means bridge in Spanish), uses a one line “bridge” to connect the first and last stanzas.
– 3 stanzas
– Stanzas 1 & 3 contain different ideas, thoughts
– Stanzas 1 & 3 consist of the same number of lines (meter and/or rhyming up to poet)
– Stanza 2 connects meaning from first to last stanza
– Stanza 2 must be one line enclosed in tildes ( ~ )
– Stanza 2 is the last line of Stanza 1 and first line of Stanza 3
Written for Poetry Jam – June 20 ,2014 Check this link out to see so many amazing poems written for this prompt.
In memory (haiku)
June 18, 1982
In memory of Fred,
a great man, friend, husband, father
miss you.
You loved me
like your own,
thank you.
© Cheryl-Lynn 2014/06/18
