Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

a paris courtyard
easels instead of ipads
folks are chatting
(to each other)
gasp amazing

Heeding Haiku with Chevrefeuille

found in the garden
a mushroom fairy dropped
by a careless stork

Sunday Whirligig 131

This weeks words come from ' Drum Dream Girl '  by Margarita Engle 

drum pound sticks secret gardens allowed
imaginary parrot comforting carnivals rattling silver




no one
not even
chef the carnival clown
or
jack the sunshine boy
were allowed into the secret garden

a guy called linus lestrange  lived there
with his imaginary parrot
rattling amongst the silver
in his expensive pile
comforting himself by
pounding  the drums with sticks
singing
'they're coming to take me away ha ha'
over and over again

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

 a good book a cat
 a rainy afternoon
 what could be better

Troiku

on the credenza

my gran's blue jars and roses

look like a french painting

the images of ancestors

beam comfort and consolation

even the stern ones

lighted by a candle

the still life scene is from

another century

on the credenza
the images of ancestors
lighted by a candle 

Chevrefeuille

il pane fresco

give us this day
our daily bread
romano e fresco

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Something about Potters

creating beauty
something about potters
he found irresistible

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Sundays Whirligig 130

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Bleecker Street, Summer" by Derek Walcott: prose, lemons, languor, tangled, salt, sprinklers, streams, smell, mind, aflame, undress, damp

 

the smell of lemons

tequila with salt

the sound of sprinklers

her damp tangled hair

the languor of her pose

set him aflame

how many times

had he undressed her in his mind 

how many times

had she been the subject

of streams of prose

from his endless day dreaming

 

Grieg - Holberg Suite for strings, 1. Prelude (with score)

Coloured Snap Shots In Autumn

we can still listen
to count basie at the back
of the bus 

slow dance
knee deep in
crackling autumn leaves

crunch honey'd popcorn
at the movies
just like kids

smile
when we think of each other
sometimes





take
care
li'l darlin'

Heeding Haiku with Chevrefeuille

First Line Friday - MLMM

Well I Did Not Want Tea Anyway

more tea vicar
yes please
oops (crash)
well i did not want tea anyway
got any scotch
splendid
blessings
no ice

Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No 1, Martha Argerich

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

florida's chainsaw nun
tackles irma's lethal winds
head on con giusto

Lang Lang - Excerpt from Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto

a tiger lurks within him
unleashed on a steinway grand
kung fu meets prokoviev

cato plays piano
where is inspector clouseau
madness in  music
shades of a wrecking ball
splintering rendition

haiku horizons

Sunday's Whirligig 128

THIS WEEK'S WORD   

 

the vagrant got a kick out of
his sleep over memories
reminiscing when he was a kid
nights of yarning way too much
shaking with laughter with friends

watching the grey mist over the ocean
the white spume of the waves
listening to the song of the sea
he was the least likely person
to ever end up in this position
at the bottom rung of the ladder 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Words from " Sea Fever " John Masefield

song grey spume mist vagrant kick
yarn laughing shaking sleep over way

 

 

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

saturday morning
embroidering bluebells
with the nuns

Despair

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai 

i walk alone
through the valley of darkness
no hand to hold

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

crushed honeysuckle
sweet seductive and fragrant
nature's eau de cologne

Sundays Whirligig 127

Adolphe Valette

farmer flows fox press bow  butterflies
ravage songbirds munching dazzled palms tomatoes

she could have married
a french farmer who grew tomatoes
near a pretty village where the river flows
filled with songbirds and butterflies

she could have attended mass
every sunday in the old village church
pressing her palms together
and bowing  in prayer
a tradition the congregation still practised.

mais non
she was too dazzled by city life
munching croissants
reading books in cafes
wearing her fox fur and
dreaming of becoming
a philosopher