Box of Memories #memories #haiku

moondustwriterJuly 24, 2015Haiku, memories, Photography, Poetrycarpe diem haiku kai, grandmother, haiku, hat box, Issa, Lily of the valley, moondust designs, mother's hat box, tear covered memories

flower covered box
lily scented contents spill
memories inside

inside the hat box

scent of orchids–
like a foreign country
the sickle moon

© Kobayashi Issa

The prompt at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is Lily of the Valley. Something about that flower reminds me of my grandmother.

Thanks to friends like Charles Martin I am inspired each day to keep writing…

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6 thoughts on “Box of Memories #memories #haiku”

Tournesol (Clr) says:

July 24, 2015 at 2:40 pm

Lovely…I too was drawn to “memories”:) scents of muguet (lily of the valley) reminds me of long ago.

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1. moondustwriter says:
  
  July 24, 2015 at 6:04 pm
  
  it is that kind of flower
  
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ranu802 says:

July 24, 2015 at 4:28 pm

I don’t know how you come with these lovely Haikus with one or two words as prompts. It’s incredible. 🙂

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1. moondustwriter says:
  
  July 24, 2015 at 6:03 pm
  
  I guess it’s life experience – this was my grandmother and mother in law
  
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slpmartin says:

July 24, 2015 at 7:48 pm

Thanks my friend for you kind words….we inspire each other I believe.

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Sanaa Rizvi says:

July 25, 2015 at 4:05 am

This is such a heartfelt poem Leslie 🙂
Nice to know its a family heirloom!

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