Haiku: Risshun (coming of Spring)

March in like a lamb
So goes the coming of Spring
Out like a lion


In like a lion
So goes the coming of Spring
March out like a lamb 

Carpe Diem #133, Risshun (coming of Spring)

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rainbow Colors

I have for you today a painting I painted late last summer at one of those vino classes during a girls night out. I didn't exactly follow the instructions and so my painting turned to have purple flowers instead of blue and looks to have a background of fire instead of that blurred.Colors: Yellow, Orange, Red, Violet



Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rainbow Colors (must have at least 4 strong colors)

Haiku High-Q

Tweetspeak Poetry just posted this fun infographic all about haiku. Have fun!

Wishcasting Wednesday: How Do You Wish to Nourish Your Self?

Wishcasting Wednesday by Jamie Ridler with today’s question: How Do You Wish to Nourish Your Self?

With healthy wholesome food, with a nice relaxing massage, and a hair cut.

Haiku: Butterfly

http://www.Monarch-Butterfly.com

Butterfly returns
To same Mexican fir tree
Winter Siesta

Dreams of warmer days
Quenches orange and black thirst
Lepidopterist










Carpe Diem Special #24, Butterfly by Chiyo-Ni

HuMp DaY Haiku - Dreams of warmer days

This week’s theme is: Quench

Tuesday Haiku

Strangers meet 
Beneath shimmering lights
Secrets shared


A signal red rose
Says pass on by to the spy
Secrets wait to bloom

Carpe Diem, #132 Strangers (provided by Patricia)

Haiku Heights #210 - Shimmer

Haiku: Caterpillar

"Stupid girl."

The hookah smoke asks,

"Who are you?"

Carpe Diem #131, Caterpillar

Forgotten Flowers

Summer’s promising starlets

Dancing for water

Singing out for salvation

Forgotten flowers

Beneath the hot sun spotlight

Writhing white petals

Summer’s promising starlets

A garden mirage

The flower gypsies create

Dancing for water

Beckoning your attention

To hear their voices

Singing out for salvation

Victims of the heat

Sway to the summer’s swan song

Forgotten flowers

Full Snow Moon

Snow moon rises high

Warmth of family and friends calls

Sending chills away

February Full Moon Dream Board: The Full Snow Moon asks, “What desires lie deep within?”

Who doesn't desire to seek warmth with family and friends as the chilly winds winter winds howl, or maybe we've been hibernating all winter long, as the weather warms we can venture out and see our friends again.

Carpe Diem #130, Full Snow Moon

Mermaid Wishes

i
wish
to be
more than this
more than just mermaid
trapped swimming beneath the sea waves
i wish to walk among the gardens of royalty
i wish to dance to the music of drum and guitar
to sing with the birds in spring time
bathe in the warm sun
with my all
heart soul
i
wish

The Sunday Mini-Challenge ~ 14-Liners
Today's 14 liner challenge from 'the imaginary garden with real toads' doesn't necessarily have to be a sonnet, which I'm no good at, so I have for you a 14 line Fibonacci sequence. The first 14 lines follow the Fibonacci sequence syllable wise, and the next 7 follow the sequence in reverse. 1/1/2/3/5/8/13/13/8/5/3/2/1/1

Six Word Saturday 2/23

tree's green gives away early spring

Haiku: Forsythia

early spring garden
golden forsythia blooming
laughter fills the air



Carpe Diem #129, Forsythia

Haiku: Castle

Bartolomeo Pedon 
[Public domain or Public domain],
via Wikimedia Commons

The battle field calls

In the moonlight, unguarded 

Castle tower falls

-------------------------

Carpe Diem #128, Castle

Excalibur Rise

Hear our troubled cries

Excalibur rise

Tonight

Great Merlin the wise

is pleased to advise

the fight

Against enemy lies

infiltrating spies

To join our allies

We take to the skies

last light

A hero's reprise

no time for goodbyes

good knight

Excalibur rise

Hear our troubled cries

Haiku: Rouge Flower

rouge flower
runs from the altar
shedding tears




Carpe Diem Special #23, Rouge Flower


Our Chiyo-Ni haiku for this Special is:

koborete wa tada no mizunari beni no tsuyu

the dew of the rouge flower
when it is spilled
is simply water

Here are some photos I took last weekend in Corpus Christi at the USS Lexington which was hit by a kamikaze plane from Japan during World War II.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Colors of Red, White or Red and White together

 

Haiku: Courage

with heart unfailing,

with courage of a lion,

we journey to oz

Carpe Diem #127, Courage

Haiku: llama

demon llama

possessed by an emperor

evil oxen

HuMp DaY Haiku - Llama

Haiku: Hope

within lies magic

ruby red slippers of hope

may bring you back home

Carpe Diem #126, Hope

Haiku: Wisdom

The Wizard of Oz
Scarecrow & Dorthy

having a brain
does not give you wisdom
my straw-filled friend







Carpe Diem #125, Wisdom

That's why the tramp is a lady

I get too hungry, for the latest diet fad
I don’t go to the store scantily clad
I never bother with the raving mad
That's why the tramp is a lady

I don't like to make a scene and a fuss
Won't throw my friends under the bus
Won't throw a tantrum and cuss
That's why the tramp is a lady

I like to dress nice and wear makeup
Just a little
I'm pale, it's OK
Hate all the drama, theatrical dustup
That's why the tramp is a lady


With all the crazy realty TV of so-called high society acting all crazy, I thought it fitting to twist this classic song, The Lady is a Tramp, which at the time was commentary of the snobbish high society be too goody-goody. How far we've fallen. My favorite version is by my favorite singer, Miss Ella Fitzgerald:

 

Haiku: Iceberg

Picture: Michael S. Nolan SPECIALIST STOCK / BARCROFT MEDIA

Nature weeps
for humanity,
"It's too late."











Carpe Diem #125, Iceberg

Saturday Haiku

My sweet sugar-belle
I love you more than sunshine
Real life fairytale



Carpe Diem #124, Bell

Sugar

Six Word Saturday 2/16

In honor of President's Day...

"Our God is a forgiving God."

-George H. W. Bush