My response to Carpe Diem #1033 the cold night Today’s quote is from Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681, Spanish dramatist, writer and poet: “These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night’s arms.” day is at an […]
Category: Tanka
Breathing in Forest
My response to Carpe Diem #1030 path We have another inspirational quote, this time from Haiku family member Hamish Managua Gunn of the Tumblr blog “haiku forest”: “Ah…and then there’s the path, always the path, there, to concentrate on.” breathing in forest, wet fox in head-high nettles, firm path underfoot, I follow fallen pine cones, […]
Sensual Tanka
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar – Form: Tanka Toni is our host this evening and we are exploring the Tanka. I have three to share: the first is one I wrote earlier this year and the second and third have been reworked. rising fragrant steam hovers above the tea cup waiting for […]
River of Birdsong
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week (6) 7 Jane’s last haiku In the last episode of the tribute theme week for Jane Reichhold, Chèvrefeuille has asked us to share our memories and haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form about Jane Reichhold. He also shared Jane’s last haiku, her Jisei: with the moon night […]
At the end of a Rainbow
My response to Carpe Diem # 1020 rainbow Today, Chèvrefeuille has inspired us with a quote from Maya Angelou: “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” a cloud holds only so many tears – the colours of a prism merge and mingle into bright smiles at the end of a rainbow © Kim […]
Sublimity of Daybreak
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week (6) 4 Tanka Splendor In this episode Chèvrefeuille has shared with us a series of tanka written by Jane Reichhold, as well as her translation of one written by Fujiwara Shunzei; the challenge is to take inspiration from them and create our own. I have reworked a tanka I […]
A Spider’s Crystal
My response to Carpe Diem #1017 true secret Chèvrefeuille has chosen a quote from the English designer and poet William Morris to inspire us: “The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” hanging from a strand at the heart of a cobweb a drop […]
Night Comfort
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge #109 This week Chèvrefeuille has introduced us to a haiku by Yasomura Rotsu, a not so well known haiku-poet, and challenged us to compose a second stanza of two lines to add to it: higon-mae samusa mo hito-yo futa-yo kana before the spring equinox the cold will last only […]
Preamble to Dreams
My response to Ramblings of a Writer’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge Week 4 – Explore & Beautiful Explore the nightscape of beautiful moon shadows shaping and dappling uninterrupted darkness in the preamble to dreams. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
When the Birds Stop Singing
My response to Carpe Diem #1014 dawn, also linked to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Friday Music Prompt # 54: Sound of Silence, cover by David Draiman and Disturbed Today’s inspirational quote is from Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941): “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” At dusk, clouds of birds fill the […]
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