Tanka Renga

 Corinne Hofmann and Lketinga
" The White Masai "

 Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

white masai woman
lines her hut with fragrant petals 
this is her new home 

where the waters flow afar
the village glows with sweet plum flowers

Sunday Whirligig

hears dread smothers cane hobbles swart
wanting disguise poem vowels imagines uncanny

Convergences...Donald Hall
An erasure poem

she hears with dread
smothers under water 
an old man finds his cane wanting
hobbles the pond's swart water
imagines his house disguised
within the poem
he and she converge
into flesh of vowels
into uncanny affection

Epitaph

 


MLMM..B&P's Shadorma And Beyond
Sunday Scribblings

who knows
where or when our words
will meet up again

just letters on parchment
leaps of faith in an imagination
will'o wisps
disappearing into the ether

farewell

Ali Goes To The Seaside

3WW...rampant menacing  unravel

Adieu Palmyra

 ali feels enervated
 takes a lot of energy
 smashing up 2000 years of antiquities
 those rampant pagan
world heritage listed buildings
pose a menace evidently




now off to the seaside to unwind
unravel the frayed nerve endings
relax a bit from the deafening sounds
of bombs and hammering of sculptures




dreams of soaking his tired limbs and turban
in the cool sea
hoping it would not be still blood soaked
from the morning's beheadings


 

Sunday Whirligig

farming corn
brussel sprouts
vines of tomatoes
pumpkin seeds

enter  - country life

cow pats
dung on boots
mole skins
akubras

verses high rise city living

comes a time
to reach a decision
traffic flow of the city or
the isolation of the bush

i choose the beach

Cocktail Hour

how long 
to wait for the cuckoo 
about a thousand years

Basho





how long 
till the wren sings again
about a thousand happy hours

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Volume 222

her volumes of mistakes
made good reading
especially the last one
volume 222

she may have broken a record
but she never broke a heart

Sunday Scribblings