Swan skims the water dips its beak into molten orange sun-spill, breaks the meniscus that keeps the dark depths in before lifting its wings upwards into pink and violet layers of sky a single white feather rocks on ripples Kim M. Russell 12th July 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1701 sundown (or sunset) one-bun […]
Tag: Summer love
Cooling Down
caressing bare feet cool shadows in the long grass a rustling breeze Kim M. Russell, 11th July 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1700 cooling down In the 1700th regular episode, in a month that’s all about summer love, today’s theme is ‘cooling down’, with a few haiku by Basho on the topic to give […]
Humidity
ice and kisses evaporate on hot skin a trickle of sweat Kim M. Russell, 9th June 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1699 sweating It’s Carpe Diem’s ‘Summer Love’ month and today’s challenge is to create a haiku or tanka in which we describe making love on a hot summer night’ implicitly, like a mystery […]
Summer Night
melting with the heat oblivious to gender their sun-kissed bodies Kim M. Russell, 9th July 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1698 Hot Summer Night … Imagination, also linked to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform In a new episode, in which Carpe Diem’s Haiku Kai celebrates summer and all that belongs to the […]
Birds, Wind and White Horses
dancing on the beach I jab a stick into the sky to break up the blue stirring up a small zephyr […]
Summer Love on the Beach
salty surf trickles among pebbles in the sand caressing hot skin orchestra of crashing waves tinged with sunset’s afterglow Kim M. Russell, 5th July 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1696 Beach Love In today’s Summer Love episode, the challenge is to create Tanka (only tanka) on the theme of Beach Love and try to […]
Ice Cream Troiku
snow fall in belly adding lusciousness to feast vanilla ice cream S.D. Tiwari snow fall in belly spreads upwards to freeze the brain with creamy delight adding lusciousness to feast pistachio nuts flakes of chocolate vanilla ice cream best from a roadside seller when the day is hot Kim M. Russell, 3rd July 2019 My […]
Summer Cocktail
tilted parasol we sip our summer cocktail two straws in one glass Kim M. Russell, 2nd June 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1694 summer cocktails This month’s Haiku Kai is all about summer love, and today the theme is ‘summer cocktails’.
Two Hearts – a tanka suite
walking together in a meadow of yellow buttery cowslips filled with the humming of bees honey-sweet as a first kiss a crown of petals daisy-chained by our fingers dusty with pollen trails on the summer breeze snags in overhanging leaves knee-deep in grasses on the edge of the meadow our fingertips touch with an exchange […]
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