mastery of self
discipline offers freedom
on winds of conquest
Inspiration from music featured at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai
on our way home
19 Oct 2017 6 Comments
in haiku series, senryu Tags: cemetery, death, headstone, live, prayer, spirit
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai celebrates 5 years! Revisiting theme: on our way home…
music in clinic
contemplate own funeral
face mortality
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reading old headstones
on walk through cemetery
how did eddy end?
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morning prayer time
Spirit’s breath fill us more
to live while we can
photo by lynn
au naturale
11 Oct 2017 4 Comments
in senryu Tags: babies, humans, naked, uber
all humans be born
naked, wet ‘n slippery;
(most die clothed & dry)
bare babies uber precious
do ya ever wonder why?
Linking to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai prompt on “nakedness”
mexico city trembles
30 Sep 2017 1 Comment
in senryu Tags: apartment, earthquake, Mexico City, ruins
Elsie at Ramblings challenges us to write senryu with: earthquake & ruins
earth quakes beneath feet
apartment wall splits open
huddle in ruins
creating beauty
20 Sep 2017 10 Comments
in scripture, senryu Tags: beauty, clay, God, hands, potter, wheel
creating beauty
spiritual transformation
God is the potter
steady pressure on life’s wheel
reforms wet clay in love’s hands
- title and image from Carpe Diem Haiku Kai
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV)
fulfillment
12 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in senryu Tags: children, dedication, fulfillment, life
This senryu written in “free” form and linked to CDHK “no rules” prompt…ironic, because kids need some rules to flourish.
years dedicated to
the nurture of children
full life enriched
lessons from nature
12 Jun 2017 4 Comments
in senryu Tags: lesson, nature, quiet, talk, yak
If you like yaks, check out more haiku at CDHK reprise…
yak yakkity yak
bovines quietly social
humans talk too much
source: Pixabay
walking partners
19 Mar 2017 8 Comments
in senryu, tanka Tags: love, nature, outdoors, shoes, walk
turn off devices
put on comfortable shoes
meet ourselves outdoors
inspire real love of nature
learn the real nature of love
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Joining weekly tanka challenge at Ramblings of a Writer
inexorable time
17 Jan 2017 1 Comment
in senryu Tags: dust, journey, time
In response to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai “Road to Santiago” word: time
where will journey lead?
wisdom contemplates life’s end
we return to dust
- photo by lynn – Floyd Cemetery, Sioux City
a poem in my pocket 
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