Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

mysticism
the truth revealed
in a puddle


 

the hidden script
beneath the simplicity
of a weed

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

he cracked her code
she gave him her secrets
gift wrapped in smiles

Grace Jones - I've Done It Again

she showed him her heart
spilled the beans now he knows
she's just another tragic
and i've done it again
done it again done it again

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai 
#1286 Love

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai - Love

you the only one
who makes me feel
i am worth something

Sundays Whirligig

 135

 This WEEK'S WORDS come from "To Catch a Fish" by Elise Greenfield:

wish fish hook concentrate appetite tell

 how spot works whole better catch






it would be a whole lot better
to concentrate on hooking and catching a fish
rather than telling people
how to spot the loony
how to wish upon a star
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how to decrease your appetite

134

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Jaguar" by Francisco X. Alarcón:

 

almost park people smelling fragrance rumbling 

constellations  fur wild untamed spirit jungle

 

    

 

 wild jungle types in furs

almost untamed people

rumbling in the park

smelling of alcohol

a fragrance not quite in the spirit

of communing with heavenly constellations

 

 

Week Four - Life Is Beautiful

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017 : Life Is Beautiful 

Day 24


a glimpse of white
on a wet day in winter
hanging petticoat


Day 25




sky tinged with danger
another cyclone on its way
devastating beauty


Day 26















it's spring again
mr banana dreads
this time of year




 Day 27


 

 holocaust victim
 expresses his opinion
 on the snow

Day 28 

 

a coral garden
the home of sea creatures
being destroyed


 Day 29


 
 dancing in the rain
 childhood innocence
 precious time in  life



Day 30




cuddling under
his big soft velvety ear
strange bedfellows



 Day 31

  `

goodbye october
life is beautiful
captured in snippets

Week Three - Life Is Beautiful

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017 : Life Is Beautiful 

Day 15






running late again
waiting in the wintry cold
thoughts of tea and sympathy

Day 16




a small jewel
in the bustling big city
a quiet place to dream

Day 17


after a hard day
one of life's great joys
a hot bubble bath


Day 18 




beauty found everywhere
tomatoes on the kitchen sink
nasturtiums in a cup

 Day 19





child's memory
of her mother
a fragrant beauty


 Day 20


 
 prickly and sharp
 nature's sentries
guarding the desert




 Day 21


 

a young widow
catches the cool breeze
pondering her  future

Day 22



magic memories
twilight in a gentler time
living on the beach


Day 23



beautiful flowers
do not bring a smile to her face
freedom on her mind

Week Two - Life Is Beautiful

 Day Eight

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017 : Life Is Beautiful

a delicious freedom
wearing a summer sarong
life is beautiful

Day Nine 




windows of a soul
pleading for a walk and run
chasing phantoms in the park  


 Day 10





a great artist
can touch everyone
moments of pure joy

Day 11

 


she watches him leave
missing him already
another lonely night


Day 12




 

winter sunset
pink and pale
amongst the tangled dark



Day 13




 

a mug of cocoa
woolly socks and a log fire
 the wind howls outside







 Day 14




 

weekly church service
coughing drowns the parson's saw 
they think of sunday lunch

Day Seven

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life Is Beautiful
















bears love the winter
frolicking in the snow
big bundles of fur

Day Six

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life Is A Beautful

 


wild winter waves
a surfer knows no seasons
hail rain or shine

Day Five

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life Is Beautiful 



the trees are bare now
let's take a long bus ride 
follow the sun

Day Four

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life Is Beautiful



he invents a game
to spare his child the horror
of the holocaust
life is beautiful a film
of love and sacrifice

Day Three

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life is Beautiful






remembering this mood
paris so beautiful 
twas a special time
time of my youth and first love
it will remain in my heart

Day Two

Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life Is Beautiful


Matisse


colours of summer
geraniums and gold fish
dazzling in pink

Life Is Beautiful

Day One

 

my first time
red tulips covered in snow
i was twenty

Floral Tribute

 not all flowers
 get to live in vases
 some are discarded
 some are trampled upon
 they are all beauties

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Lacrimosa

the angel of death
visits all of us sooner or later
a shroud has no pockets

we die alone
love and compassion
our only legacy

Tranquillity

tick tock goes the clock
hibiscus glow in the dark
i sip my tea

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Compassion

every year
he sends birthday wishes
he has never met her

carpe diem haiku kai

A Shadorma For You

Shadorma

times are hard
the sorrow and pain
they will pass
soldier on
trust in god keep hope alive
the sun will soon shine

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Renoir

the mosquitoes always
find her irresistible
plump sweet and juicy

Heeding Haiku With Chevrefeuille

A new year begins
With the blooming
Of a single frosty rose
Mizuhara Shuoshi (1892-1981)

he kissed each petal
thoughts of the ice queen
came rushing back

MLMM

Carpe Diem Haiku

at dawn 
dew shimmers
morning glories

© Chèvrefeuille ("wordlessness"-haiku)



morning glory
a humble weed
a true beauty

Autumn

 a walk in the park
 mist rain and falling leaves
 time for a log fire

Haiku Horizons

For Librans

October

by Robert Frost (1874-1963)           

O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
To-morrow's wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call.
To-morrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow,
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled, 
Beguile us in the way you know;
Release one leaf at break of day;
At noon release another leaf;
One from our trees, one far away;
Retard the sun with gentle mist;
Enchant the land with amethyst.
Slow, slow!
For the grapes' sake, if they were all,
Whose leaves already are burnt with frost,
Whose clustered fruit must else be lost—
For the grapes' sake along the wall.

Tanka  -  Carpe Diem Haiku Kai
(a distillation of the above poem)






october be hushed
make  the day amethyst 
beguile be gentle
waste not the last remnants
of the warm morning sun

Tan Renga - Into The Sea

melting into the sea
the full moon
leaves a candle bright

© Jane Reichhold (1937-2016)

white froth on dark navy blue
god has left the light switch on

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Shakespeare Wordle - MLMM

cowslip bough viol tinctured sodden musk
villain strike owls stain swagger distils



'strike the viol'
sang the counter tenor
the women swooned
clutching their lace hankies

distilled images of
cowslip meadows blossom boughs
handsome young soldiers
flashed through the young girl's mind
her dainty wrists tinctured with musk
her lips stained with rose geranium

the barn owl hoots its mournful song
the soldier stands sodden outside in the rain
shoulders hunched like a villain
he swaggers up to the house
trying to summon up
the courage to knock on the door

An Erasure Poem

 An erasure poem based on Neruda's sonnet xvi




i love the earth
meadows planet
i have no other star
the universe
the only light i know
the streak of rain
the moon light
across form
compact and planetary
my globe




MLMM
Sunday Writing
Prompt 223

 Sonnet XVI by Pablo Neruda

I love the handful of the earth you are.
Because of its meadows, vast as a planet,
I have no other star. You are my replica
of the multiplying universe

Your wide eyes, are the only light I know
from extinguished constellations;
your skin throbs like the streak
of a meteor through rain.

Your hips were that much of the moon for me;
your deep mouth and its delights, that much sun;
your heart, fiery with its long red rays,

was that much ardent light, like honey in the shade.
So I pass across your burning form, kissing
you – compact and planetary, my dove, my globe.

Sundays Whirligig 132

athwart endure patriot dust broods live
live cauldron yesterday hate clear petty

 

  yesterday today and tomorrow

miss athwart

is not one to endure foolishness
or over zealous patriots
she steers clear of petty behaviour

hates dust
never broods on the past
lives in a cottage
grows yesterday today and tomorrow
in cauldrons on the front lawn

 

 

Roy Ayers - Searchin

Spring Lanterns

hanging spring  lanterns
in the garden wearing her
best kimono  waiting (sigh)
blue his favourite colour
hoping he will notice

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

He Must Be A Millionaire

to ride a camel
in the desert singing
worth more than millions
i'm the man who broke the bank
at monte carlo

Carpe Diem  Haiku Kai

Thurible

the smell of incense
frankincense and myrrh 
the thurible swings

the smell of incense
clouds of smoke waft over
 the congregation

frankincense and myrrh
used for 2000 years in
this ancient ritual

the thurible swings
how many hands have held it
over the centuries

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai
Troiku

Heeding Haiku with Chevrefeuille - MLMM

a folded sheet of paper
opens up a whole new world
a small boy's adventure

we have lost contact with reality; the simplicity of life
Paul Coelho