Tag: autumn

Autumn (haiku)

© Cheryl-Lynn R. ’15
© Cheryl-Lynn R. ’15
© Cheryl-Lynn R. ’15
© Cheryl-Lynn R. ’16
© Cheryl-Lynn R. ’16
© Cheryl-Lynn R. ’16

life cycles
mystic blossoms
in spring

summer’s harvest
hectic bees and butterflies
sweetness of fruits

busy season
merits time to rest,
shedding life

shutting down
storing picnic baskets
summer chalets close

summer love affairs
lovers kiss goodbye
bleeding hearts’ll heal

shedding life
fallen leaves of vibrant hues
autumn’s undress

peeling limbs
branches shedding leaves
nature’s runner

rustic colours
amber, yellow –
fall’s last performance

© Tournesol’15

http://jennifernicholewells.com/2015/10/19/autumn-poem/

Red carpet festival (haibun – haiga)

multicultures blend

She decided to walk to her voting station today rather than take a bus. The sky was such a vibrant blue, so intense and the midday sun added softness. It was chilly at 6 degrees C but dressed in layers, a good scarf, her comfy Doc Martens and sunglasses she was in her own world. Now and then she would pear over her glasses to see the real colour of the sky because through her glasses is was dark blue turquoise. That reminded her when she went to St-Marten…thoughts that rose the temperature slightly, or was it the brisk speed of her walk?

Checking the time, she knew she had time to walk the 30 minute walk and hopefully there would not be a line up at the polls giving her time to catch the bus to get to work. She had to stop a moment to take photos of the fallen leaves. She was kicking herself for not leaving earlier to walk slower to take in the beautiful autumn colours; suddenly her boots crunched on a red carpet laid out just for her. It felt like a festival of remembrance.

red carpet

peeling arms,
tokens of burning passions
summer’s past

© Tournesol ’15

CDHK

boring fence (haiga – tanka)

oct 14 2015 fall coloured fence

lacklustre fence
along the railway tracks
nature takes pity
natural beauty spills over
autumn leaves adorn

© Tournesol ’15

Haiku Horizons – Over

halo glow

© Clr’15/09/28 Supermoon

light of the full moon
shines through colored leaves
at last … autumn
© Chèvrefeuille

halo reflecting earth
young loves swoon in heaven’s glow

even robins sing
through the window
the old man snores

teens walk home hand in hand
muffling innocent giggles

© Tournesol ’15

© Clr '15
© Clr ’15

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Autumn walk (30 doh – 023 September haiga)

Finally, she can breathe with the temperatures lowered but not plummeted to shock the body. Walking to work she looks at the fallen leaves forming a lovely carpet and up at the changing colours ever so slowly resisting the transition this year for some reason. Ah, yes, due the unusual warmth, nature is quite confused. Again she approaches her concrete garden that seems to blossom only in the fall. Perhaps it is a gift from the gods hiding underneath sowing the seeds all through summer.

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trees shed leaves
yielding to season’s slumber
wildflowers resist

© Tournesol’15

30 days of haiga – 023 – Autumn Walk – Rick Daddario

autumn sky (troiku – haiga)

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autumn sky
rush of tints, blush –
infuse me

autumn sky

autumn sky
vibrant, so blue
shy of clouds

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rush of tints, blush –
ambers and hennas
evocative

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infuse me
my last reward – before,
stillness takes over

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autumn sky
rush of tints, blush –
infuse me

autumn sky
vibrant, so blue
shy of clouds

rush of tints, blush –
ambers and hennas
evocative

infuse me
my last reward – before,
stillness takes over

© Tournesol’15

Greeting autumn (30 doh -018 September 18)

butterfly daisy

butterfly greets fall
last of the daisies giggle
love life ’til the end

© Tournesol’15

30 days of haiga – -018 with Rick Daddario
Northern Hemisphere: Greeting cards

juicy delight (30 doh Haiga- 017 September 17)

apples

season’s delights
amber, red and yellow leaves
juicy apples.

© Tournesol’15

30 doh – September 17 – 30 days of Haiga 017 Apples – Rick Daddario

Through the thicket, I saw wonder (haibun)

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Walking through the shortcut to work on that regular footpath she noticed so many leaves had fallen with the winds of the night before.   Saddened as she saw many of the wildflowers turning different shades of brown.   She would miss her walk in this thicket seeing buttercups and wild daisies and that purplish blue butterfly too.  A huge tree branch lay across the path and she stood there looking at how one night changed a season…just one night!  As she walked further into the thicket and within a few feet she saw her blue butterfly.  Surely it couldn’t be the same one she saw in June!!  Elated…just filled with childish joy, she slowly approached the butterfly and it closed up its wing sitting on a daisy…her favourite kind of daisy too!!  She saw it open its wings a bit gradually and then close them again.  She smiled at how smart this butterfly was.  It actually thought it was camouflaged enough to trick her.  And that game of hide and seek continued for several minutes…Oh, another flutter of those tiny velvety wings…once, twice …such joy to see and feel the beauty of this past season lingering here in September.

September wonder
amid the thicket
a butterfly rests
gracious daisy gives
last of her sweet nectar

© Tournesol ’15

autumn colours (haiku)

© Clr'15
© Clr’15

steeped in amber
footpath comes to life
crunch of leaves

© Tournesol ’15

Inspired by:

meigetsu ya yuki fumiwakete ishi no oto

this harvest moon –
as I part the snow by stepping on it
the sound of stones

© Chiyo-Ni

http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.ca/2015/09/carpe-diem-special-166-autumn.html