Photo credits: Clr ´14
sunflower sways
billowing clouds overhead
wind chimes.
scorching night
sleeping naked on the cot
cicadas sing
© Tournesol ‘14/08/02
Submitted for: Haiku with Ha – Summer Kigo
Hot summer (Haiga)
Footprints (CarpeDiemHaikuKai #529)
Credits: Foot-prints in the sand
Today Chèvrefeuille is inspired by “Sand and Foam” by Gabril Kahil which is the first prompt of this month. I am still shocked that August has come so quickly!
I am forever walking upon these shores,
Betwixt the sand and the foam,
The high tide will erase my foot-prints,
And the wind will blow away the foam.
But the sea and the shore will remain
Forever.
© Khalil Gibran
What a wonderful poem to set the mood.
This first prompt of this new CDHK-month is almost a little episode of Carpe Diem “Distillation” and of course you may use the goals of CD-distillation for this episode, that’s all up to you, feel free …
Chèvrefeuille shares a lovely poem once shared in February 2012 for the Haiku Challenge of SiS.
a little verse
to leave my footprint on the Internet
scent of Honeysuckle
scent of Honeysuckle
makes me slumberous
dreaming of passion
dreaming of passion
while walking along the seashore
with the one I love
with the one I love
I undertake a journey
into oblivion
into oblivion
with my pencil and paper
a little verse
a little verse
caught me years ago with it’s beauty –
addicted forever
© Chèvrefeuille
Well, my heart goes pitter patter to that poem and sets me in the right mood for this:
walking on wet sand
eyes closed, breathing in echoes
seagulls
seagulls
squawking along the beach
waves rumble
waves rumble
water rising up my legs
erasing footprints
erasing footprints
loves lost, hearts broken
tears streak
tears streak
evokes blissful desires lit,
walking on wet sand
walking on wet sand
musings blow in the wind
turn into love poems.
Hear or Here (kyoka)
(Kyoka)
Stream of Consciousness
Linda asks us to write here
on what we hear,
read aloud it’s confusing
hearing “here”, “hear” sound alike.
© Tournesol ‘2014/08/02
I squealed (Kyoka)
Hot summer nights
feel a shadow overhead
bat squeals!
I duck and squeal louder
woke up the neighbourhood
(c) Tournesol ’14-08-01
Clear (haiku)
Hopping rocks
clear cold creek
splash
&
cascades
clear ice blue water
beads of crystal
(c) Tournesol ’14-08-01
Mosquitoes (Kyoka)
backyard mosquitoes
sucking like vampires
blood thirsty pests
hardly felt even an itch
thanks to fleshy pink thighs.
© Tournesol 14/07/31
Submitted: Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, Ghost , #19 Georgia’s Kyoka
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Waterfalls – chutes – haiga (CPHKFamily #1)
affligée par la vie
penchant sur la rive
larmes en cascades
&
tous les peines
déversent en abondances
chutes acceuillent
&
craintes, peines
répands en cascades
paisible
flexibility
rooftops, concrete buildings
city waterfalls
river flows
emotions over dams
waterfalls
waterfalls
imitate
tears
&
river holds
lamenting grief
waterfall
&
river listens
waterfalls
drown regrets
© Tournesol 2014/07/30
Photo credits: clr- Tournesol ‘2014
Submitted for: CarpeDiemHaikuFamily#1Waterfall
Wordless Wednesday
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Wordless Wednesday
© Clr ’14
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Lanky sunflowers (haibun)
Well, I am so far behind, I’m breathless trying to catch up. Chèvrefeuille has started a WordPress blog called CarpeDiemHaikuKaiFamily. Well, this is already Prompt #4 Sunflower, so better late than never.
Here is Chèvrefeuille’s offering:
after the thunderstorm
the sunflowers in the backyard
have broken
© Chèvrefeuille
My sister grew sunflowers in her country home and that was the first time I saw such huge, tall flowers towering over ME and I`m tall! One summer in 1995, I planted a variety of seeds of wild flowers late in June. That was the summer I was trying for an English Garden and we had such a nice property in the back of the house with a huge field, small stream and further a wooded area. It was heaven in the back and civilization in the front of our home.
By the end of June, no sign of growths, end of July only mere foot tall lanky, thin stems. But by September, whoa! these were giant fellas alright!! They almost touched the roof of the garden shed. It was pretty in the daytime but in the night, if I had to go out back, their shadows were a bit daunting…no creepy!
round yellow face
looming shadows sway
sunflowers at night
standing tall
reaching for the sun
hover over me.
sunflowers
reap seeds for salad dressing,
cooking oil
lankiness
towering sunflowers
like a teen.
© Tournesol ’14/07/29
Submitted for: CarpeDiemHaikuKaiFamily #4 Sunflower
Tournesol dans un Jardin 
