My response to Carpe Diem #1025 beauty Today’s inspirational quote is from Rumi (1207-1273), a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic: “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” […] Rumi kaleidoscopic tesserae of life combine in unique beauty © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image of mosaic portrait of a woman from Pompeii found on http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Category: Haiku
Purposeful
My response to Carpe Diem #1024 success The inspirational “power of words” prompt is a quote fromSwami Sivananda Saraswati (1887-1963): “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” gossamer cobweb glitters in tightly-drawn threads purposeful spider © Kim M. Russell, 2016 spider web by LeQuip on DeviantArt
Beauty in the Soul
My response to Carpe Diem Special Tribute In Memoriam Jane Reichhold (1937-2016) Jen (BlogItorLoseIt) wrote a tribute for Jane Reichhold, which included tanka by Jane, to which Kristjaan added a selection of her haiku, to inspire us to write our own tributes. My haiku was inspired by the following: art is exact like a woman […]
Homesick Angel
My response to Carpe Diem #1023 A Sparrow Inspired by a quote from Kala Ramesh: “Last evening I was looking out from my balcony and saw a sparrow perch on a branch. All of a sudden, with a quick jerk, she ruffles her feathers and spreads out her wings – her bodyline on an […]
Amor vincit omnia
My response to Carpe Diem #1022 dreams Inspired by a quote from Chèvrefeuille: “I know I am a dreamer … but I believe strongly that love will conquer all evil … and, as spring is here again, then I only can say: Yes love has conquered again!!” spring conquers winter banishing cold and darkness a […]
Love the Moment
My response to Carpe Diem #1021 love the moment – based on an inspirational quote from the artist Corita Kent (1918-1986): “Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.” heart-shaped poplar leaves shimmer in motionless air hum in gentle breeze © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Single Cloud
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week (6) 5 “Ask Jane …” To honour Jane Reichhold’s knowledge Chèvrefeuille has shared another of her articles with us, entitled “Fragment and Phrase Theory” and asks usl to create haiku (or tanka) using the fragment and phrase theory. single cloud in sky above blue water craves own […]
River Life
My response to Carpe Diem #1019 compassion Today’s inspirational quote is from Nelson Mandela (1918-2013): “Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” anchored in river lily pads float […]
Summer Stars
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille August 10th 2016 For this week’s Heeding Haiku episode the challenge is to create a new haiku inspired by the following: evening sea fog descending into sun-dried grass sweaty lovers © Jane Reichhold This is my tribute to Jane: sparkles of sunshine caught in ripples of swan’s wake […]
Morning Haiku
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week (6) 3 The knowledge of Jane In this Theme Week episode Chèvrefeuille has shared an article, “Another Attempt to Define Haiku”, written by Jane Reichhold in 1996. He has asked us to comment on what we have learnt from her and to share haiku and tanka inspired by […]
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