Tag: Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

#Tan Renga: Watching a Snail

I bow to my master Matsuo Basho told me the way to watch a snail © Chèvrefeuille pondering graceful motionsscaling rocky garden walls ©2019 Linda Lee Lyberg Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Challenge #1662 Watching a Snail

#Tan Renga: Beginning of Autumn

cricket silence between scraping sounds autumn begins © Jane Reichhold rustling frosted copper leavesa squirrel buries acorns ©2019 Linda Lee Lyberg Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: #1661 Tan Renga Beginning of Autumn

#Tan Renga: Wisteria

In the moonlightthe color and scent of the wisteriaseems far away© Buson charcoal night hides the secretsburied in the fragrant bloom© 2019 Linda Lee Lyberg Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Tan Renga Challenge #1660 Wisteria

#Tan Renga: Chestnut

autumn moonlight a worm digs silently into the chestnut © Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold) boring a path to soft heart ravaged kernel shakes in wind ©2019 Linda Lee Lyberg Carpe Diem: #1659 Tan Renga Chestnut

#Haiku: Passing Spring

broken blue eggshell pink rose petals fade and fall- signs of passing spring Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: #1653 Passing Spring

#Haiku: Joy of Light 2

golden gleaming fields oilseed rape blooming, seeding canola delight Carpe Diem’s Light Retreat 2019

Purple Rain

water reflection– a flying squirrel across the wisteria’s mantle © Takarai Kikaku (Tr. unknown)velvet petals kiss the ponda downpour of purple rain Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge