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 […]
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Finding the Divine
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #75 rice gourd (lost episode March) entrance and exit incorporated in one an open gateway © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Happiness
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #72 Use that quote […] “The purpose of our lives is to be happy”. […] Dalai Lama golden crab apple bobs aimlessly in the stream happy to be borne on capricious ebb and flow voyage of experience © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.dtbrownseeds.co.uk Unfortunately no crab […]
A pigeon haiku
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #64 Beyond “movement” Pigeon interrupts a dull January day lands on the fence © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.sheffieldforum.co.uk