promised under the stars (haiga)

© Gallery Hip

Blades cutting,
lovers embraced skate
under the stars

lovers embraced skate
searching for the full moon
behind the clouds

under the stars
lovers make promises
beneath the Milky Way

© Tournesol ’14

Carpe Diem

White Christmas (haibun)

© Clr '14-12-11
© Clr ’14-12-11

December 23rd, the temperatures rose over 10 degrees Celsius. It was springtime weather at the end of December.  Two days of rain cleaned the streets, sullied snow banks and melted most of the snow. Makes it doubly hard for half-doubters..one of my three grandsons… to still believe but painstaking stories, Crosby’s songs and want-to-believe children makes it still happen…one more year.

grey puddles
born from melted snow
earth’s enigma

~

White Christmas
fairy-tales echo
crooner’s refrain

© Tournesol ’14

Carpe Diem White Christmas

fears lit candles (haiga)

 © Clr '14
© Clr ’14

shimmering and lush
reflecting six eyes hoping
Christmas magic.

tall and proud
craves admiration
fire its foe

© Tournesol ’14

CP- Christmastree

near you (haiku)

Caroline Michaud Photographie
© Caroline Michaud Photographie

breathing,
when I’m near you
quickens

when I’m near you
sun never sets
heart liquifies

quickens
my pulse and breathing
heavier.

© Tournesol ’14

Haiku Horizons “near”

magical night (choka- haiku)

 Vincent van Gogh said about this painting :

"... it does me good to do what’s difficult. That doesn’t stop me having a tremendous need for, shall I say the word — for religion — so I go outside at night to paint the stars"
The Starry Night /Emote Version by spring-sky
© The Starry Night /Emote Version by spring-sky @ Deviantart

walking to the store
found it windy and chilly

felt my hands frosting
forgetting my gloves at home

hands in my pocket
writhed along slippery paths

looked up at the sky
so many glistening stars

mouth open in awe
dazed by such magnificence

this massive ceiling
of art looms over my head

exhaled sigh of bliss
feeling blessed to be alive

I smiled at the moon
“could I have seen him wink back?”

a fairy-tale night
I could feel it in my bones

something wonderful
would be happening tonight

I then felt a bump
with an awkward step, I slipped
fell flat on my back
arms spread to make snow angels
I winked back at the Moon.

~

 sudden gust
snow circled around me
angels appeared

© Tournesol ’14

CP Ghost Writer Georgia of Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library

Carpe Diem “Angels”

shooting stars/étoiles filantes

shooting stars
escape while trodden skies
swallow me
°°°
étoiles filantes
fuient tandis un ciel éteint
m’avale

© Tournesol ’14

frost (haiku)

silver flowers
danced intricately
on chilled panes

(c) Tournesol ’14

Carpe Diem

candles blaze (haiku)

lit candle
burgeons its glow,
a mother’s love

burgeons its glow
rhapsody at Christmas
peace and goodwill

a mother’s love
flourishes with each birth
candles blaze

(c) Tournesol ’14

Carpe Diem

HALLELUJAH! (haiku)

Sheer exaltation,
universality greets
love …a brief moment.

© Tournesol ’14

HALLELUJAH! Flashmob sings ‘Wana Baraka’
in a library in Valladolid