Following surgery to remove melanoma, my dear friend’s PET scan is clear…no sign of cancer!
sunshine after snow
perfume of spring in the air
laughing daffodils
free wallpaper image
breathe prayer of thanks
19 Apr 2018 5 Comments
in haiku Tags: daffodils, friend, laugh, perfume, sunshine, thanks
ominous chill
17 Apr 2018 6 Comments
in haiku Tags: chill, crow, leaves, tree, wind
My attempt at “fusion” prompt (see CDHK) to fuse two haiku into one new one.
free image
the crow has flown away:
swaying in the evening sun,
a leafless tree.
over the wintry
forest, winds howl in rage
with no leaves to blow.
© Soseki Natsume
raucous wind stirs crows
black “leaves” clinging to bare tree
murderous caws rise
© lynn__
sand romance
14 Apr 2018 4 Comments
in haiku Tags: beach, footprints, kiss, sand, sun
Chevrefeuille is “romancing haiku” at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai…
love absorbs sun’s heat
footprints on secluded beach
warm kiss remembered
photo by lynn
snow follows easter
08 Apr 2018 4 Comments
in haiku Tags: cock, storm, sun, wind, winter
“The cock crowing in the milky dawn thinks its call raises the sun;”
– René Daumal
old cock winter crows
easterly wind heralds storm
free image – pexels
red sun is rising
Haiku inspired by quote (Carpe Diem Haiku Kai) in less-than-inspiring weather.
fresh aire
04 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in haiku Tags: blossoms, butterfly, open, scent, surf, window
See Chèvre’s “fusion” challenge to combine two haiku into one at CDHK:
A fallen blossom
returning to the bough, I thought —
But no, a butterfly.
© Arakida Moritake (Tr. Steven D. Carter)
morning breeze
coming in the window
surf sounds
© Jane Reichhold
an open window–
surf sounds on tropical breeze
butterflies blossom
© lynn__
photo by lynn
haiku (in)fusion
29 Mar 2018 2 Comments
in haiku Tags: fusion, iris, silk, starlight, water
Chèvre at CDHK challenges us to create a haiku through “fusion” of the following:
rabbit-ear iris
how much it looks like
its image in water
© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)
And…
a silk tree
even through the leaves weary
of starlight
© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)
My “fusion: of the two:
rabbit-ear iris
bends weary leaves toward water
silk reflects starlight
© lynn__
beauty in the moment
26 Mar 2018 2 Comments
in haiku, quote Tags: hibiscus, moment, monarch, nectar
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
-Rabindranath Tagore
life’s sweet brevity
photo by lynn
hibiscus beckons monarch
offering nectar
wysteria myst
21 Mar 2018 7 Comments
in haiku Tags: moonlight, purple, tears, wisteria
From Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, a haiku to “revise”:
in the moonlight,
the color and scent of the wisteria
seems far away
© Yosa Buson (1716-1784)
___________
hear flute softly weep
pale purple tears in moonlight
dropping over wall
© lynn__
image – CDHK
begging bowl
18 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in haiku, senryu Tags: begging, bowl, empty, fill, satisfy
water cleanses dregs
empty own bowl to be filled
who can satisfy?
photo by lynn_
A “begging bowl” is used by Buddhist monks to ask for alms…see Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. Perhaps each of us is a spiritually thirsty/hungry begging bowl?
still frame
25 Feb 2018 3 Comments
in haiku Tags: attention, frame, life, now, stop
photo by lynn
stop…look…and listen
to your now amazing life
pay attention…please!
Atypical haiku inspired by book, The Remarkable Ordinary by Frederick Buechner.
well & done
19 Feb 2018 2 Comments
in haiku Tags: beauty, morning glory, vine, water, well
Chevrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai challenges us to “revise” a classical haiku by famous female haiku writer. Here is my humble attempt…
morning glory!
the well bucket-entangled,
I ask for water
© Chiyo-Ni
* * * * *
glory of morning
entangled in blooming vine
beauty fills my well
© lynn
a poem in my pocket 
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