seaside holiday
playing cat-and-mouse with surf
transport sand home
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A senryu for dVerse poets where Merril hosts ekphrastic poetry.
dibble~toes
08 Jun 2022 11 Comments
in ekphrastic Tags: sand, sea, surf
mariner’s musings
17 Mar 2020 23 Comments
in tercet Tags: foghorn, freedom, lighthouse, mariner, memories, sailor, sea, ship
when warmer air stirs sweet memories on
those youthful days when he sailed waves of sea
feeling of freedom worth dreaming upon
he watched the sky in experienced way
and listened for foghorn’s woeful low sound
to safely guide ship back into the bay
love of the sea understood beyond speech
lives on after old sailor’s laid to rest
like signal of lighthouse on rocky beach
Laura Bloomsbury challenges us to write three tercets in pentameter (optional) with set rhyme scheme. Linking to dVerse Poets…
celtic music
21 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in music poem, senryu Tags: Celtic, Ireland, music, pocket, sea, stone
Irish folk music featured at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. This song was produced a few years ago by a Celtic band, Eden’s Bridge, and sung by Sarah Lacey.
seek a shiny stone
gaze down, collect in pocket
miss glory of the sea
renga with basho
30 Jun 2018 8 Comments
in haiku, renga Tags: crow, junk, koi, moon, sea, watchman
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai’s ”Renga Challenge” create a renga with haiku by Basho.
rainy season
sea glow lights held up
by the night watchman
pale koi bubble to surface
paddle junk into harbor
the blue sea
in waves smelling of saké
tonight’s full moon
sitting with friend on the beach
quietly sip from warm cup
on a bare branch
a crow settled down
autumn evening
vermillion koyo fallen
colors faded with sunset
Haiku © Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold) Renga response © lynn__
dynamics of yin & yang
03 Jun 2018 6 Comments
in haiku, troiku Tags: benediction, marriage, moonrise, rocks, sea, sunset
Meoto Iwa, or the “Loved one and loved one” Rocks, are a couple of small rocky stacks in the sea off Futami, Mie, Japan. They are joined by a shimenawa (a heavy rope of rice straw) and celebrate the union in marriage of man and woman. At low tide, the rocks are not separated by water.
Chèvrefeuille, at CDHK, offers two haiku for weekend “fusion & troiku” challenge:
between the wedded rocks
the sun rises to her highest throne
summer solstice
mountain stream
the ice has melted – dances in the sun
crystal waterdrops © Chèvrefeuille
My “fusion” of Chèvre’s haiku into one which lays foundation for troiku series:
rock solid marriage
mountain streams refresh the sea
sun rises, moon sets
© lynn__
rock solid marriage
united by rope of straw
weighty promises
mountain streams refresh
sea waves break upon the rocks
crystal droplets shine
sunset and moonrise
benediction over earth
until end of time
castaway
15 May 2018 9 Comments
in haiku Tags: castaway, daylight, footprints, heart, sand, sea, tide
Carpe Diem “Crossroads” challenge to fuse two haiku into one.
Ozaki Hosai
on the field
where evening has died out,
my footsteps
the heart
that seeks something
I release to the sea
© Ozaki Hosai (revised by Chèvrefeuille)
fading with daylight
washed to sea by searching tide
footprints of the heart
© lynn__
photo by lynn
move over, edward lear
13 Feb 2018 23 Comments
in poem for children, rhyming verse Tags: canoe, mastodon, pussycat, sea, stars
Mastodon and pussycat went to sea
in a canoe without any oars.
Said Mastodon to Kitty, “Isn’t it pretty,
this mirrored reflection of stars?”
Replied puss to pachyderm,
“Move a little astern, your trunk
is blocking my view.”
So he took a step back but,
alas and alack! stars scattered
as boat tipped in deep blue…
…which may be why mastodons are extinct and cats hate water 😉
Linking with dVerse Poets prompt featuring artwork by Catrin Welz-Stein.
princeville, kauai
26 Jan 2018 3 Comments
in senryu, tanka Tags: Hawaii, heir, King, Princeville, sea
poseidon fountain
hawaiian north shore resort
home of salt sea king
namesake of young prince albert
heir to throne, dead at age four
lion’s tooth in sun’s face
19 May 2017 7 Comments
in tan renga Tags: beach, dandelion, sea, seeds, spring
A tan renga written for challenge at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai…
dandelion dandelion
on the sandy beach
spring opens its eyes © Ogiwara Seisensui
warm salty sea breezes blow
…dandelion sneezes seeds lynn__
photo by lynn
European tour: Greece
17 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in haiku Tags: cliff, desire, rocks, ruin, sea
Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai hosts virtual tour of Europe this month.
island of desire
cliff crashes to rocks below
Aegean ruins
(photo credit: CDHK)
European tour: Bulgaria
09 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in haiku Tags: beach, cliff, forest, mountain, sea
Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai hosts virtual tour of Europe this month.
beyond beach crowd noise
forest preserve wraps mountain
cliff overlooks sea
(Photo credit: CDHK)
white blossoms
08 May 2015 9 Comments
in haiku Tags: blossoms, city, rose, sea, succulent
verdant succulent
thrives beside the salty sea
raises pom-pom cheers
blooming median
beauty wilts between traffic
perfumes city street
(photos by lynn__ linking with Chèvre at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai)
a poem in my pocket 
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