Angels

a birds flight
and then i am gone
and forgotten

Jane Reichhold

always at his side
kristjaan's haiku angel 
watches over him

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

i wonder about that too
toes buried in soft white sand
lying under palm trees
on a fijian island
in the south pacific

Pleasure

summer delight
skinny dipping in a rock pool
on a deserted beach

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Rembrandt

the day's disasters
in a dutchman's morning face
four centuries ago

Kiddiewinks

no swimming pool
sprinklers just as much fun
summer magic

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Cold Night

buried under fur
hibernating until spring
do not disturb

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Street Singer Zazz

on a street corner
a magical moment
enriches a life

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

For Non French Speakers

Moments

 



in reality
we only have the moment
cherish it

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Sound of Music

climb every mountain
a  singing postulant  snags
an aristocrat






being summoned
to mother superior's office
was never like  this

Haiku Horizons

Smiles

this avatar
makes me smile, chef of sinners
a clever nutter

the poster boy
for protestant lunacy
at its best

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Let us meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love
Mother Teresa


when i think of you
i smile and strangers think
i'm smiling at them

Felt With The Heart

we may never meet
even so your words have touched
my mind and my heart

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.....Helen Keller

Joseph and Chico

a cat can look at a king
a cat can look at a pope
cats can do lots of things
chico wrote a book
the pope reading the first draft
was very impressed



both are retired now
chico and his best friend
both spend a lot of time
sitting in the chapel
avoiding the news
head in hands and paws
lamenting their replacement
 (we do too)

Mid Week Motif PU

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

plain and grey
a little sparrow is loved
each and every feather

My Bonny Lies Over The Ocean

 three word wednesday
painstaking radiant queasy

midweek motif PU

My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean

in spite of the best
painstaking plans
to reach my radiant bonnie
the rough seas
the nightmare
of queasy crippling sea sickness
and moaning noisy sailors
are a powerful deterrent




















My Bonnie Lies Over the Sea

besides
wearing pink  party dresses
to the seaside
gesticulating and muttering scottish folk songs
( out of sync)
on the cliff's edge waving 
could give an unfavourable impression
and a visit from the men in white coats

My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean




Oh Bring Back My Bonnie To Me

home delivery is
the only option
preferably
right at the door step
gift wrapped
in leopard skin
with a big black bow
 

Cool Moonlight

hot night
sleep too has melted
into satin sheets
the coolness of moonlight
rumpled by restless legs

Jane Reichhold

From Jane Reichhold Poetry
A Gift Of Tanka
http://www.ahapoetry.com/GIFTANK.HTM

hot summer night
dead calm not a breath of air
the full moon within my reach
neon lighting the blue bay
an empty space beside me

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

she looks up
a tapping at the window
is only rain

Jane Reichhold

the lavender bends
to  the softness of her gaze
she is at peace now

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler

Brahms 2 Rhapsodien op. 79 Nr. 2

echo whoosh crackle rustle gurgle buzz
strident deafen nocturne scratching percussive whistle

WORDLE...MLMM



you are not listening
to  pop
to the rustle of spring
or  korsakov's flight of the bumble
bee (buzzzzz) played by 
a scratchy violin
or wafts of a chopin nocturne
echoing gurgling streams
neither the cuckoo whistles in haydn's
silly  toy symphony
nor the strident deafening
chords of beethoven's 5th

whoosh
voila !

it's a cracking rhapsody
of brahms performed by
wunderkind
Gabriele Gylyte