Haiku: Verdant

Fairy winds kissing

Erin’s verdant hills, whisper

"Ádh na nÉireannach"

Hill of Tara, Ireland

Pronounced: Awe nah Nay-ron-okh
Meaning: Luck of the Irish

Carpe Diem #110, Verdant

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Fire

Fireworks May 2012

Minute Maid Park Houston, TX 

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Fire

This week your challenge is to show off a few photographs of the Chinese Element of Fire.

Fire/Summer: Heat, Light, Lava, Radiation, Sparks, Plasma, Explosions, Burn, Blaze, Oil, Ash, Smoke, Glass, Napalm, Sun, Matter

Haiku: Early Blossom

Yellow Peekaboo

Early Blossoming Jonquil

Signaling Springtime

A Time of Renewal
Wind Blows Though Dewy Grasses

Flowers Awaken

WikiCommons

The weather has been positively springlike this week, highs in the 80's, lows in the 60's, and now rainy. Still early for Jonquils and Daffodils. I don't even know if they grow in this area...wishful thinking for an early spring.

Carpe Diem #109, Early Blossom

HuMpDaY Haiku

Wishcasting Wednesday: What Nourishment Do You Wish For?

Wishcasting Wednesday by Jamie Ridler with today’s question: What Nourishment Do You Wish For?

I wish for balanced nourishment. You think you're being healthier, but you go too far and may have ended up creating another problem. Ugh! Balanced Nourishment!

Haiku: Birdsong

bird god of jazz sings

sweet saxophone melody

interpolation

"Bird Lives"
(sculpture of Charlie "Bird" Parker)
by Robert Graham (sculptor), 1999

trumpet solo wails 

tribute honoring yardbird

ultimate birdsong

Trumpet player Maynard Ferguson
Plays my favorite version of 'Birdland'
written homage of Charlie Parker's NY Jazz Club

Carpe Diem #108, Birdsong

I immediately thought of one of my favorite jazz tunes, "Birdland," when I saw today's prompt. So I hope you enjoyed my take on a little birdsong today.

Haiku: Evening Sun

On dusky canvas

Evening sun paints cloudy sky

Orange and yellow

Shadowed trees framing

Nature's twilight masterpiece

For all to see

Carpe Diem Special #19, Shiki's Evening Sun

Today's Special has two wonderful haiku written by Shiki. To inspire your own:

tsuridoko ni irihi mori kuru shigemi kana

the evening sun
filters through the undergrowth
onto the hanging bed

and:

rai harete ichiju nu yuki semi no koe

the thunderstorm having cleared up
the evening sun shines on a tree
where a cicada is chirping 

For the Love of Haiku 20: Fantasy Trip

For The Love Of Haiku 20

Fantasy bells ring
Begging you to take the trip
Red Pill or Blue Pill?

Weathered Water

Foggy
Morning clouds
Hiding wet skyscrapers
City snoozing until afternoon
Misty

Hyatt Hotel in downtown in fog.
Houston, Texas

Rainy
Water droplets
Playfully taking shots
Letting thunder enjoy moments
Stormy

Muggy
Mosquitoes’ feast
Devouring sandaled kids
Playing in puddled remainders
Steamy

Haiku: Kindertransport

Great Britain: The children of Polish Jews from the region between
Germany and Poland on their arrival in London on the "Warsaw".
Photographed February 1939

Rescue the children
Darkness of war is coming
They are the future










Kindertransport-The Kindertransport was a rescue mission that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig. 

January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.


Carpe Diem #107, Children
Haiku Heights #206 - Rescue

Full Wolf Moon

Wolf Moon rising high

I hunger for adventure

Roaming lands unknown

Carpe Diem #106, Wolf Moon (the full moon of January)

January Full Moon Dream Board: The Full Wolf Moon asks: “What are you Hungry For? I'm hungry for some adventure... 

Six Word Saturday

Genetics to blame for toe pain

Where does the soul go?

Helix Nebula "Eye of God"

Cat's Eye Nebula

"Where does the soul go?"

Discovery through science

More by faith and art

A thousand eyes search

For the soul's Atlantis

Through vastness of night

By brightness of day

Philosophers Endeavor

Answers unyielding

Love's great Challenger

Never ending search for signs

Heart and mind diverge

Dying with light's end

Enterprise at last answered

"Where does the soul go?"

-----

Carpe Diem #105, Eyes

Weeping Nile

Temple of Isis in Philae, Egypt

Nile
Flooding river
Brokenhearted shores weep
Lover, husband- not forgotten
Isis

Fib: Silky

J. Ryan Roberts

rub-
a-
dub-dub
hot wata
it's time for a scrub
date night, silky smooth legs, ta-da






Fibonacci Haiku Style: The Fib as it's commonly known, is an experimental Western form of poetry following the Fibonacci sequence. Typically 6 lines, 20 syllables, in the sequence: 1/1/2/3/5/8.



Carpe Diem #104, Silk

Birds Singing of Spring in the Trees

Bird nest in the back yard.
The birds were flying and singing all over this weekend.
They can't wait for  Spring

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Wood

What Element am I? I'm a Wood element!


Color: Blue-Of course
Symbol: Dragon-Awesome 
Season: Spring-Can't wait
Day: Thursday-I was born on a Thursday, sweet
Planet: Jupiter-Rock on

Wishcasting Wednesday: What do you wish for your home?

Wishcasting Wednesday by Jamie Ridler with today’s question: What do you wish for your home?

Some kind of writing or art desk...

May all the other wishers delight their home wishes come true.

Haiku: Odin's Paradise

Source

Odin's paradise

Over heather bathed heathland

Orkney spirits call

Valhalla's wreathed gates

Past violet heath wasteland

Honored souls received

 Revisit legends
Fabled Berserker prowess
Warrior, Lover

Wild eyed wolf brother 
Defeating fire and iron
Odin's chosen few

I heart lore of old
Tales of ancestral heathland
Odin's paradise



Carpe Diem #103, Heath (provided by Bjorn Brudberg)

Haiku: Peacock

Peacock Ore - Bornite (Cu5FeS4)

Magic Peacock Ore
Dispel negativity
With this simple spell

Peacock Ore on Crown 
Fluorite on Solar Plexus
Healing Quartz in hand

Visualizing
White light flowing head to toe
Positivity 





Carpe Diem Special #18, Shiki's 'The Peacock'
I was looking for a nice peacock picture, found this beauty and ended up going in a totally different direction with this.

Haiku: Sweet Memories Fade

Sweet memories fade
Fairytales become nightmares

Lovers torn apart

FTLOH- 19 (See the picture here)

Carpe Diem #102, Sweet Memories

Spring Time Please

Winter chills
I can bear no more
Come to me
Spring time please
Impatiently I await
Flowers and sunshine


This concludes my 21 days of poetry (not including all the extra haikus). I will continue the poetry writing, but my time will be limited. The past three weeks have allowed me to develop a creative poetry habit and to explore different forms of poetry. I think my favorite are the Triolet andVillanelle. Perhaps once Spring classes are over I will attempt this again in the summer for a longer period.

Dreamer:Writer

Dreamer

Vision pilgrim

Traveling with fairies

Delighting in worlds uncharted

Writer

Haiku: Bamboo at Dusk

RED PANDA (Ailurus fulgens)
©Taronga Zoo / GETTY IMAGES

Feasting on bamboo
Solo red panda at dusk
Not willing to share





Carpe Diem #101, Bamboo
Haiku Heights #205 - Dusk

Haiku Angel

Duerme conmigo
Angel bajo la luna
La noche dulce





Carpe Diem #100, Angels

Six Word Saturday

Cardinal Nation remembers baseball's perfect knight

Haiku: Love Story

An introduction

Leads to blossoming romance

Tale yet to be told

Long distance lovers

Open road sees more than most

Reaching for your heart

Arched city awaits

Lover's proposal in Spring

With red birds watching

Hearts bound in held hands

Lovers unite on white bridge

Promises whispered

Magnolia Plantation Charleston, SC
October 18, 2008

Carpe Diem #99, Love Story

Fairy Enchantment

Artist Pol Ledent "magic trees"

Magic Trees
Red and Violet
Light the Night
Nature’s Joy
Forest Animals Dancing
Fairy Enchantment

Haiku Friday: Collection of My Janurary Twitter Haikus

On a deck of cards

Dissectible minutiae

Reveal a cheater

~

Today’s itinerary

Simply visit the

Rocky cliffs penultimate

~

Eschatology

An alpha’s obsessive path

Legacy wasted

~

Noisome fumes form to

Fill a crowded theatre

Do not holler fire

~

Personnel

Nothing personal

Paronym

~

Polynomial

Recondite eigenvalues

Causing me headaches

~

The turn of the screw

Otherworldly orchestra’s

New composition

~

Graceful patience leads

To spicy basiation

Well worth the waiting

~

Not remaining nice

Lenocinant disclosure

Above market price

~

New pet will not stop

Argumentative parrot

Makes an endless night

~

Play the dating game

Find a match in sea of souls

Colletic couple

~

Musty palimpsest

A late hallucination

Bedlam ullagones

~

Beautiful ruins

Ganosis on  bronze quickhatch

Just skillful cropper

~

A photo album

Lascivious appendix

Not stuffy, work shy

~

Irises hearts ache

For summer beyond winter

Warmth of  sunshine soul

~

Scrambled connections

Quixotically insane

Cradle fragile shoat

~~~

Fibonacci Style Haikus

To

The

Spiral

Kelpie’s home

Across the wroth sea 

an imaginary country

~

The

real

taxing

factor of

macromancy is

the heaviness of gravity

~

Must 

Mend 

Fanal

Light tonight

For one hand no sleep 

Negative waves circumvented

~

no 

more 

kinfolk 

vilify 

familistery 

and move to a new beach condo

~

Wells 

to 

comfort 

time sniffers 

with a neckerchief 

lying on the factory floor

~

too 

ill 

in bed 

besot dose 

imbibe sugar pill 

an concomitant impostor

~

Death

How

Fitting

Due to no

Natural causes

An umbilical condition

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