january 2nd

02 Jan 2019 7 Comments

by lynn__ in haiga, senryu Tags: , , , ,

Linking to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai‘s “fuyukasumi” prompt  🙂

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national park service photo

 

 

 

prospero ano

01 Jan 2018 4 Comments

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Image by lynn__

letting go…

30 Dec 2017 2 Comments

by lynn__ in free verse Tags: , , , ,

Collage and year end challenge by Sammi Cox featured here.

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another year dying

look in

clearer rearview

mirror

can’t take time back
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times of drought

cracks

hollow spaces

shadows

weeds gone to seed
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yet light persisted

rainbow

blessings come of age

wisdom

life grows green anew
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looking ahead into

new year

past has passed

thankful

let regret go

 

 

 

 

eye of the pheasant

21 Jan 2015 6 Comments

by lynn__ in haiku Tags: , , ,

This beautiful bloom is Pheasant’s eye, fukujusĹŤ, or New Year’s Day Plant. It grows in many mountainous areas of Japan. It begins to show new leaves in February or March and flowers with small bright yellow blossoms of 10 to 20 petals with a strong glow. Since the flowering time fell in the New Year season according to the lunar calendar, it was used as a decoration for the New Year, and so… some farmers grow it especially to flower for the First of January…The name actually means : Plant of good fortune and long life, “prosperity grass” or “longevity grass”. (information from CDHK, see link below)

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japanese new year

fukujusoo wishes you

good fortune, long life

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Linking to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai today…Happy New Year!

once in a blue monday

01 Jan 2014 Leave a comment

by lynn__ in Uncategorized Tags: , ,

 

since today is a holiday

and the weekend is coming…

i’ll start a new diet on Monday.

 

a cold wind blows outside

and the treadmill is covered…

so think i’ll go running on Monday.

 

there are after-holiday sales

and new year’s advertisers…

i’ll balance the budget on Monday.

 

i want to visit the neighbors

and spend time with my friends…

guess i’ll call somebody on Monday.

 

so many books to be read and

ideas for poems to be written…

hope i feel inspired on Monday!

 

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(entry in wePoets Showit contest this month)