In The Spotlight At Carpe Diem Haiku Kai — An Open Stage #1 Wrapped in a leaf blanket
leaf shadows
trembling
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #17 Out of The Carpe Diem Box …
deep under the ice
the sound of creaking
winter thaw beginning early
no chance to skate
must wait another year
as thoughts turn to spring
Carpe Diem Weekend-Meditation #16 Only The First Line “steel blue night”
“a walk through the city”
a walk through the city
wet snow clinging
to the heart
“hot summer day”
hot summer day
the mosquito’s whine
blended with beauty
“the passing spring”
the passing spring
daffodils fade
into the night
“steel blue night”
steel blue night
moonflowers burgeon
across the lawn
Troiku Challenge
“lost in the corn fields”
lost in the corn fields
sounds of summer
reverberating
lost in the corn fields
sound of laughter
hidden children
sounds of summer
invading my dreams
stirring hope
reverberating
within a maze
faded memories
Carpe Diem Weekend-Meditation #15 Soliloquy no Renga “the dust of stars”
silence
the dust of stars
shining radiance © Jane Reichhold
into the cosmos
falling to earth
invisible particles
filling the air we breath
floating through us
every tissue remade
star like, never static
a balance between
living and dying
cells regenerating
our bodies dynamic
ever apart of nature
changing
our own thoughts
mingled with the dust of ages
Haiku Shuukan #3 (’18) Cold wind
winter sleet
coated branches creak
eerily in wind
““
cruel wind
pierces my coat
freezing my tears
yet I stand faithful
watching your departure
Carpe Diem Weekend-meditation #14 Revise That Haiku
chi ni taore me ni yori hana no wakare kana
falling to the ground
a flower closer to the root
bidding farewell
© Matsuo Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)
moonflower withers
as the sun rises higher
I am alone
~~~
petals cascade
on the swaying branch
goodbye fair rose
drifting away
dandelion seeds
one bye one
~~~
fading
one memory at a time
sunset
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