on ice (tanka – haiku)

I truly love this prompt!! it speaks to me and puts me right where I am in my life.

sifting through
the personal effects
of a spider’s web
an autumn wind loosens
another anchor thread
© Laura Williams (a.k.a. Lolly)

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kitchen view river march 6th

She lived in the ancestral home by the river…not too long ago; this will be the first autumn without her. 

by the river
 last of the fallen leaves
 gathered
floating in the current
memories of you and me

wintertime,
locking souvenirs –
frozen in time

(c) Tournesol ‘15

deafening silence (Haiku)

Inspired by:

suddenly,
the crickets
hush
(c) Jennifer Hu 2014

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and then,
the last leaf,
fallen

fallen
season’s end
downtrodden

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the sky exploded –
her spoon
half-way to her mouth

(c) Tournesol ’15

Off-Key (haiku)

Still on the path of Jennifer Hu, from her collection: Final Thoughts (2014)

A sharp cry –
the tea kettle
can’t sing
(c) Jennifer Hu 2014

silly love songs
giddy teens croon
off-key

an Irish song
shower echoes off –key
ghosts shudder

tender love song
echoes from the shower –
soft cries

(c) Tournesol ’15

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

© Tournesol’15

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)

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


© Tournesol ’15

heavy rains (kyoka)

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

© Tournesol ’15

Three Word Wednesday

daisy (haiku)

© Clr'15
© Clr’15

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

© Tournesol’15

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

© Laura Williams (a.k.a. Lolly of Lovely Things)

arbuste penchant
amour lourd de pivoine
coeur tender verse ses larmes

flowered shrub leans
peonies weighed with love
tender heart bleeds tears

(c) Tournesol’15

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