My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #4 (4) Latifa Prayer “I hope” children of the stars living on Earth, poets hope for an astral muse © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Tag: Haiku
Ghosts and Apple Blossom
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille – immodesty As my own favourite haiku, I have chosen: Words become poems – ephemeral ghosts as soon as they are spoken. © Kim M. Russell, 2015 My new haiku is: Ancient apple blooms – fleeting poems on the breeze speak wisdom of trees. © Kim M. […]
Spring Fades
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #80: Memory Lane: Utabukuro (or poem bag) The haiku I admire is: In the basin, as I wash my face, there rises autumn’s shadow. Natsume Soseki (translated by Makoto Ueda, from Modern Japanese Haiku: An Anthology) I have written my own haiku in the same style but about spring: On the […]
Lotus Petals
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #4 Latifa Prayer episode 2 “I exist” with each breath the soul floats with the lotus flower, caressing petals © Kim M. Russell, 2016
The show is over
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #79 Looking Back In Time … “Sparkling Stars” each cherry petal enfolded in a raindrop the show is over © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Karumi
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #77 pickles (in the way of Basho) lost episode of March Image found on es.123rf.com scribbling of a pen the scratchy sound of haiku blossoming in ink © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Common Terns
My response to Carpe Diem #962 bird feathers Image found on http://www.rspb.org.uk haunting the wetlands sea swallows soar and plunge feathered acrobats © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Praying for Rain
My response to Carpe Diem #961 prayers for rain Image found on http://www.weatherwizkids.com beneath dusty feet earth cracks, plants burn and wither, gasping prayers for rain © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Wheelbarrow of Dreams
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week 3: Magnolia Blossoms, haiku by Soseki Natsume; episode 6: “autumn’s shadow” in a spring garden wheelbarrow fills with flowers fragrant silver dreams © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Angles in Tangles
I have deconstructed an old poem as a response to Carpe Diem Theme Week 3: Magnolia Blossoms, haiku by Soseki Natsume; episode 5 leafless tree there are triangles in the bare branches of trees angles in tangles sharpness smoothed by light tracing ghostly foliage smoothing the edges © Kim M. Russell, 2016
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