Another game of magnetic poetry online describing a dead tree standing in neighbor’s ditch; stripped bare of bark, stark white silhouette…
posting poetic prose
29 May 2019 20 Comments
in magnetic, Uncategorized Tags: dirt, green, naked, peace, silhouette, tree
Another game of magnetic poetry online describing a dead tree standing in neighbor’s ditch; stripped bare of bark, stark white silhouette…
28 Apr 2019 1 Comment
in classical haiku Tags: cherry petals, earth, gentle, pink, snowflakes, tree
Linking to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai with “cherry petals” kigo challenge…
cherry petals float
gentle from tree to kiss earth
scent of pink snowflakes
free image- pexels
28 Nov 2018 12 Comments
in haibun, senryu Tags: advent, boys, Christmas, Emmanuel, stockings, tree
As newlyweds, we’d spent our money on the wedding and honeymoon so our budget was limited. We found an artificial tree on sale and put it up together. I had a few simple ornaments I had made in years past which we used to decorate the branches. We had no gifts under the tree but were happy celebrating our first Christmas together.
When our sons were little boys, they could hardly wait for St. Nick’s Day when we’d open our stockings…what gifts would be inside? I hung them high, out of reach from eager eyes and curious fingers. Our neighbor bought the boys each an Advent calendar. They opened a window every day to find a little chocolate treat inside; counting down the days until Christmas.
Now that we’re older, we enjoy the waiting…listening to music, looking at light displays, attending grandchildren’s programs. The season of Advent is a special time of holiday concerts and worship services, culminating in the celebration of Christmas Day. We don’t really need any gifts except the presence of Emmanuel, God with us.
anticipation
waiting for return of king
our advent journey
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A traditional haiku refers to a season and nature so here’s another…
small creatures waiting
under snow’s winter mantle
for coming of spring
Linking to Imelda’s haibun prompt of “waiting” at dVerse Poets Pub
25 Nov 2018 7 Comments
in classical haiku Tags: cold, moon, night, tree, winter
winter moon shining
framed by silhouette of tree
caught in cold night’s web
Linking to Frank Tassone‘s prompt on classical “winter moon” kigo…
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__
31 Mar 2018 16 Comments
in tanaga Tags: dove, fruit, love, plant, poet, tree
time to plant a poet-tree
gently dig a loamy hole
water roots creatively
fertilize with wit and soul
nurtured by attentive love
sapling poet-tree will grow
spread out branches, shelter dove
harvest of ripe fruits bestow
The tanaga form is part of an oral tradition going back to the early 16th century (eg. Twinkle, twinkle little star). It comes in stanzas of four lines with seven syllables per line. It often rhymes, even rhyming each line of a stanza on the same rhyme sound, but it can have variable rhyme patterns. It can also have more than one stanza. Frank hosts tanaga prompt at dVerse Poets.
16 Feb 2018 4 Comments
in scripture, tanka Tags: birds, kingdom, mustard, seed, tree
tiny mustard seed
birds find shade in its branches
surprising kingdom
grows into life-spreading tree
from minuscule beginnings
Luke 13:18 & 19
29 Dec 2017 2 Comments
in classical haiku Tags: cold, elegance, ice, tree, white
bare tree silhouettes
world iced in dazzling white
winter’s elegance
26 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in quote Tags: apple, Luther, plant, tree, world
3 Day/3 Quote Challenge: People celebrate Halloween but many have forgotten that October 31 is Reformation Day for the Church. So I will post a series of quotes by Protestant Reformers. This is the “pick” of the day!
photo by lynn
06 Jun 2016 3 Comments
in haiku Tags: bread, museum, tree, village, wheat
Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai hosts virtual tour of Europe this month.
sit in tree’s shelter
slice crusty loaf of wheat bread
purchased at village
(Photo credit: CDHK)
15 Sep 2015 6 Comments
in haibun Tags: cedar, kingdom, tree
“I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. And under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest. And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.”
man on his mountain
bible’s holy poetree
lofty sovereign grace
(Ezekiel 17:22-24, ESV)
25 Mar 2015 7 Comments
in haiku Tags: leaves, starlings, tree
(dreamstime: royalty free stock photo)
Kristjaan shares his knowledge and experience at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai ...my haiku today tries to incorporate the element of “surprise”
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