lost in the cornfield (haibun – troiku)

She noticed the sky changing and told her friend she must go out to take some photos. But her friend told her to wait the sky would turn a darker pink soon, “You’ll see, it was merveilleux last night!” Twenty minutes later, she notices the sky is just getting greyer..DARN!! She ran out to take a few shots, hoping to salvage a nice souvenir of this evening at her friend’s home surrounded by mountains and cornfields. Ducking a few times from soaring and gliding birds, she actually felt she had intruded on Mother Nature tucking in wildlife.

lost in the cornfield
dimness descends slowly
overwhelmed scarecrow

lost in the cornfield
scurrying with glee
field mice play

dimness descends slowly
sun dips behind Mont Bromont
pause in despair

overwhelmed scarecrow
sparrows zooming overhead
pompous feathered friends

clueless dummy (troiku)

Inspired by the Lovely Lolly’s scarecrow haiku. Visiting her blog is such a delight at Foralovelything

new scarecrow …
already a field mouse pokes
around its fly
© Laura “Lolly” Williams (published in Lovely Things, CDHK- e book)

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(troiku)

heckling crows
irritating to mortals
scarecrow’s blank stare

heckling crows
mock the hopeless dummy
stuffed with straw

irritating to mortals
the enigmatic calls warn,
little critters sneer

scarecrow’s blank stare
his gruesome fate awaits-but
ignorance is bliss

Carpe Diem Special #161 Lolly’s third “new scarecrow …”

Three Word Wednesday – enigmatic – gruesome – irritate

grab your chance (haibun)

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She chats on the phone this warm August day with her son checking up on how he was doing with his summer cold. It is ragweed season combined with the humidity at 65 – 70%…breathing can be challenging for many.

At one point he shouts on the phone, “Oh no! A bird just stole a raspberry from MY plant and he’s holding it in his beak now! I gotta go! ” She chuckles thinking, “It is free for the picking if you just leave them there.” He has raspberries and blueberries that she got a glimpse of when sitting for the girls (German Shepherd mix gals that is) a month ago. He truly is blessed with a lovely back yard that serves him what he needs…a few apple trees and a few berry bushes. But you know the old saying, “You snooze, you loose.” This little bird “grabbed” this opportunity!

raspberry favours
dripping with sweetness
pickpocket finch

Haiku Horizon “grab”

Just one (tanka)

Just one
picked for his lover
long stem rose
fragrant and wanting
lipstick painted mouth

Normally this prompt requires 5 sentences; just for fun I thought I would try to tell a story in five lines in a Tanka. Written for five sentence Fiction

rolling waves (kyoka)

Rolling waves
wind gusts bind the jib
stirring bellies
staring at the mocking sky
through the porthole

Written for Tanka Poets on Site on Facebook

Prompt: Through the porthole

étoile de mon coeur (Troiku)

She sits with mixed feelings, watching the sun set. The wind picks up from le Mont Royale on the rooftop. She is saddened to see such beauty leave her hemisphere. And then she smiles, reminded that as she bows in reverence thinking of her friends on the other side.

(Troiku)

star of my heart
baring thy omnipresence
fills me with bliss

star of my heart
so much love to share
radiance released

baring thy omnipresence
all-pervading love unfolds
rising in the East

fills me with bliss
whispering good morning
my brothers’ new dawn