night rain (troiku)

(troiku)

the sound of rain
drumming against the window
lovers’ serenade

the sound of rain
in the night
muffling their moans

drumming against the window
keeping in time
with their heartbeats

lovers’ serenade
tangle of limbs
spellbound

©Tournesol’17/02/15

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai – The Sound of Rain

young love (tanka)

(tanka)

running through puddles
midsummer rain
laughing like young children
hands her a scented flower
raindrops on rose blushed petals

Secret Keeper Prompts 5 words: YOUNG RAIN LAUGH ROSE HAND

Feeling a bit constrained to keep those 5 words in my poem, here are two other poems inspired by this flower:

(tanka)

splashing in puddles
feel so alive and young
laughing at life
hands her a gem flecked flower
curve of her rose tinted lips

(haiku)

raindrops on petals
midsummer rain
nature’s perfect gems

©Tournesol’16

mountain rendezvous (haibun)

They ran up the mountain into the forest laughing like children. He took her hand tenderly and smiled.

letters in a heart
carved on mountain white birch
after their first kiss

by the riverbank (haiga)

by the riverbank
bullfrogs moo
drowning lovers’ moans

NaPoWriMo – day 10 April 2016

Carpe Diem

Inspired by:

hot night
chorus outside my window
tree frog serenade
© SaraMcNulty

dancing by the lake (haibun)

When she was a young teen she would sit behind the wooden stage propped up near Lake Champlain at Isle le Motte, Vermont. Every Saturday, the owners of the campground would play fifty’s music. It was 1965 and she would sit with her older sister and they would watch their parents dance. Her mother was 5ft 2-3/4” and her father was 5ft 11”. They would sweep the floor with their soft feet floating on that wooden stage. Her mom on her tip toes swooning at the love her life. Her father with his charismatic smile. They danced like Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire…only her father was much more handsome.

bodies touching
heat of a summer’s night
under moonlit sky

Written for Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille at MindLoveMiserysMenagerie