I awaken sand in hidden places its always been there A photo prompt from Word Press to enjoy – Serenity Some serene shots: Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity (castelsarrasin) Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity (cardinalguzman) Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity (carowoods) Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity (cee’s photos) Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity (j picks) Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity (behold […]
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Departing the Year #haiku #photography
Today our prompt at Carpe Diem is departing year, and it is extracted from Jane Reichhold’s “A Dictionary of Haiku” … it’s a nice prompt I think and it fits (of course) the time of year … Here is Jane’s example of this prompt: slow rains as if leaves were falling at winter’s end © […]
Beneath the Tree #3 #elderly #Christmas #poetry
Sitting in a chair watching the door for days turkey smells are old something in her memory plays closets all are opened every ornament has a place this big house is empty ghosts in too many a space Sitting in a chair she ticks the number of gifts her grandchildren are grown more often she […]
Delight in Her Smile #haiku #photography
open your smile sun rises on love’s horizon skinny dip Prompt for Dec 1st for Chevrefeuille’s Carpe Diem is Delight in Company
Nuts – I Feel Winter #winter #haiku #photography
Hidden in the shadows, striving to find some life. Digging out to freedom, it’s cold outside tonight. The snow it falls too often covering all that I once had. Bring my family’s coffin fall’s food has all gone bad. Cold I watch for spring winter taunts the sun’s rays one lonely nut The prompt for Chevrefeuille’s […]
Her Headstone #poetry #death #photography
The words in bold I pulled from a gravestone poem written by a grieving husband to his wife who had passed so young. Charlotte I spoke your name in harmony with the lark now the marble holds memories cold I caressed your hand through the bitterest of fights now I seek your shadow as you slumber at night * silvery […]
In the Fray #dpchallenge #photography #poetry
On the edges of battle mouth of cannon burns exhausted reliant on my mooring fore and aft held taut If afraid when things splinter they become stubble and stone Today’s DP Photography Challenge is Fray .
Rare Discovery #haiku #nature #photography
mezurashi ya yama wo ide ha no natsu nasubi how rare! on leaving the mountain the first eggplant ~Basho For moments you peak before sun’s heat dries your skin lawn ballerina Carpe Diem’s prompt “How Rare” is inspired by one of Basho’s lesser known haiku.
Second Fiddle #poetry #art #music
Playing out of tune my first string snapped no one to hear my concerto anyway * Key of C is flat you came and seized my bow then you walked away over plucked *** not to worry tho my strings I changed today more bows, in a bit of luck fiddler performs soon *** Relationships […]
The Edge of 2013 #photography #poetry
Reflect on the year before it slips forever away. Where have you been? What haven’t you done?
