deceiving beauty (tanka)

Inspired by our host’s haiku:

her beauty
takes the life of the Lake
Water Hyacinth
© Chèvrefeuille

misleading beauty
industries and farms purge,
Yamaska River
running through villages
like Saint-Hyacinthe

Carpe Diem

*Monitoring rivers running into the Saint Lawrence

first plum (Tan Renga)

A different challenge at Carpe Diem today…we are to compose the hokku to complete this tan renga.

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where the waters flow afar
the village glows with sweet plum flowers (Anonymous)

in her mind’s eye-
sucks the juice of that first plum,
her first born

my river (haiga)

back home
my river holds
the universe
© Tournesol`15

I couldn`t decide which so I added these as well:

the river-
stories from afar,
show and tell

my river
flows in different
shades of blue and green

the river
brings the world
to me

heavy rains (kyoka)

menacing clouds burst
rampant river overflows
old dam gives in
like grandpa`s old sweater
unravels on his portly chest

Three Word Wednesday

daisy (haiku)

I saw you walking,
daisy for the picking-but,
let the world see you

moonbeams (haiku)

A post at Chris at The Muscleheaded Blog made me think of a poem I read this week by Chiyo-Ni

https://muscleheaded.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/vintage-postcard-humor-sets-us-mooning/

nani kite mo
utsukushiku naru
tsukimi kana

beautiful
whatever we wear
moon viewing
(c) Chiyo-Ni

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sleepwalks
on a midsummer night
moonbeams
(c) Tournesol’15

heavy heart/ coeur lourd (haiku)

Inspiration:

a peony bush
heavy with flowers …
trying to pick
from a long list of names
for the full spring moon

arbuste penchant
amour lourd de pivoine
coeur tender verse ses larmes

flowered shrub leans
peonies weighed with love
tender heart bleeds tears

http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.ca/2015/08/carpe-diem-special-163-lollys-fifth.html

weep not (troiku – Jennifer Hu inspired)

Hu, Jennifer (2014-10-30). The Flow of Peace: 40 Haiku inspired by Zen practice (October 2014) (Kindle Locations 18-19). . Kindle Edition.

Out my window
even the sky
will end. . .
© Jennifer Hu (The flow of Peace)

I’ve tried to create a troiku with Hu’s haiku:

out my window
a robin preys
fledglings chirp

even the sky
has its limits,
weeps

will end…
for a season – only,
weep not

Zen inspired (haiku)

This was not an easy prompt. I usually do not participate because I look through Lolly’s amazing poems, then flip through a few other family members and cannot decide. So this time chose Jennifer Hu. Oh, it was still a difficult feat since I have about 5 haiku collections by her. So I chose a few from (2014-11-25). Final Things: 40 Haiku inspired by Zen practice, Kindle Edition