Broken Hearts

take care tread softly
it is cruel to shatter them
hearts are fragile things

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Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

 Evacuees WW2

saying goodbye
maybe for the last time
the wages of war

Sijo On A Wet Saturday Afternoon

Sijo ..A Korean Poetic Form

Let me ask you, butterfly, do you remember your cocoon?
Perhaps you recall spinning thread, a caterpillar's ungainly crawl?
If you can jog your memory ,maybe there is hope for me.

© Jane Reichhold
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my ears ring with joy as i whisk eggs and chop onions
you cast your magic , who knew slicing red peppers was euphoric
i flip the omelettes con brio, to your seductive gigue

Knowledge

 to acquire knowledge
 reading is the secret
books are best friends

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Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

I believe
praying to a Higher Power
gives me strength

Chevrefeuille

the love of god a gift
enriching an earthly life
concluding in the hereafter
much more than ashes for  
the urn on the mantelpiece

Wordle Week 147

levitate heat passion helitrope ballet legs
latch inseperable media iridescence harmony flashover



the two were inseperable
the iridescence of her heliotrope eyes
locked him into overwhelming heated passion
with a giant latch embrace
legs levitating
flailing in all directions
in their swan lake ballet
a poetic tango
a flashover
a harmony between them
twas a media sensation

MLMM

Wounded Heart

a life time of scars
from the slings and arrows
fortune favoured him not






Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

3am not a sound
the magic of silence  - young girl
scribbling love letters

Wordle 146

 canopy harm held irreversible billow
 pear simmer chew infest ashen

a canopy of pears
held up by tree branches
billowing in the wind
infested with  grubs
chewing away 
the rot irreversible
the harm already done
you simmering with anger
ashen face'd with rage

MLMM

Ghazal

you swim with me in the azure sea
locked into my mind with salt and spume

your voice on the wind whistles soft
as the waves lap on to the shore

you walk with me as i meander
by a cinema of foreign films

i click open the front door - see you
stretched out on the indian cushions

7 red roses in a crystal vase
with a note saying you don't love me

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Lucia Popp "Deh vieni non tardar" (Le Nozze di Figaro -1980)

simplicity
humility -  the greatness
in a performer

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Persian Dancers

I heard how, to  the beat of some quick tune
There rose and danced a Damsel like the moon
Saaid 1213 - 1291

her  kohl shadow'd  eyes
her swan neck'd fingers spelling desire
in the clove scented air


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Spiritual Way

 Tanka


he helped her to her feet
an old stooped woman frail and bent
and at once i knew
this boy was somehow special
his kindness not of this world

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Sundays Whirligig

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Making Peace" by Denise Levertov: forming, feeling, making, balance, ahead, crystal, profit, power, poem, grammar, metaphors, syntax

 

 

 

forming ideas
feeling too much
making a fool of myself
born under the balance sign
typical
looking ahead into the crystal ball
no signs of power or profit
only poems
crammed thick with rich metaphors
grammar and syntax
the poor relations

 

 

  

Moon FLower

Like a blooming nightflower
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
Haifiz 1326 - 1390

all summer night long
her intoxicating scent
filled the lane with beauty

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Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

you erring in the desert 
what air of love is this?... Rumi

the scent of roses
permeates the light warm breeze
what air of love is this?