Musings on Life, Love, and Linguine-Poetry & Writing
soaring with bird wingsoff the chalk cliffs of Moherfor eternity Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: #1779 Cliffs of Moher Author’s Note: At Carpe Diem we have been asked to use the following haiku written to honor Jane Reichhold and create our own tribute to her:… Continue Reading “#Haiku: Cliffs of Moher”
willow leaves fallenclear waters dried up stonesone place and another ©Yosa Buson bare willow branchesgray reflection on glassperched high, a crows nest From Carpe Diem: Welcome to a new episode in our wonderful “Never Change A Winning Team” month in which we celebrate the… Continue Reading “#Haiku: Willow Branches”
“Do you know what the earth meditates upon in autumn?”- Pablo Neruda When autumn’s burnished light drifts across the garden, copper shadows stagger onto the littered pathI ponder what leaves are feeling as they scatter at my feetDo they know their life is over… Continue Reading “Copper Burnished Autumn”
plum flower branchescasting shadows in lamplighton cloth fusuma At Carpe Diem, we have been asked to re-work the following haiku: arranging the plum-flowers,I would enjoy them in the light of the lamp,as if in the moonlight © Taigi (1709-1771 ?)
He thinks of her when late evening shadows fall across his haggard wrinkled face as he aches to remember every detail, wanting once more to intimately tracewith his smooth fingers the luscious shape of her hips even when she aged, were pure joy to… Continue Reading “Thoughts at a French Cafe”
A swiftly failing memory cast in hues of black and sepia an 8 MM movie flickering shadows on a blank screen caught between imagination and reality, life becomes a deep dark dream. And in this fugue mental statewhen a mind is fading, waningthoughts move… Continue Reading “Fugue”
through colorful treesa withering wind whistlesleaves float on glass lake Frank J. Tassone: Hakai Challenge #111 withering wind
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