Seven Days Before Christmas -Day 6 presents
brightly wrapped gifts
Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #66 Teika’s Ten Tanka Techniques by Jane Reichhold
winter afternoon
fluttering on the lawn
a large butterfly
on closer inspection
only a leaf skeleton
in the garden
I search for signs of spring
daffodil leaves dawn
predictions of winter snow
overshadow my joy
Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #59 Variety … “end of summer”
harvest moon
the fox gleans fallen grain
a mouse in shadow
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the chaffinch
picks seed from spent coneflowers
crowned in morning glory
Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #58 Dodoitsu
A little known Japanese poetry form used mostly for songs handed down orally. Dodoitsu poems consist of four lines with the syllabic structure 7-7-7-5 and no rhyme or metre. I gave it a try and wrote two.
in the light of the full moon
a moonflower opens up
her star shaped face now full
one night for glory
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a cool breath of autumn air
slips in through hidden crevice
caressing your bare shoulders
hints of summers end
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Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #56 Choka (or Nagauta), Japanese “long poem”
harvest moon rises
shedding it’s light in the fields
farmers continue
working late in the night
with crops gathered in
celebrations to follow
corn, squash, beans and rice
offered up in thanksgiving
orange haze of the moon
filling the sky with its glow
barn dances begin
young lovers walk in moonlight
hands gently touching
bewitched by the moon goddess
their lips softly meet
music spills into the night
(envoy or hanka)
summer forsaken
wild geese echo the wind
leaves begin to turn
waning moon looses its blush
people dream of spring planting
Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #55 Jen (Blog It Or Lose It)
in the meadow
watching shooting stars
lost in ourselves
we travel the universe
one mystery at a time
Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #54 lost in the woods about tanka
in waning moonlight
I scribble poetry and notes
adjectives flourish
unable to still my mind
I reminisce through the night
Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #52 full circle challenge “heaven”
- Heaven
- Clouds
- Palm tree
- Fountain
- Goddess
- Desert
- Jazz cafe
- Duke Ellington
- Summer night
- Honeysuckle
- Ancient road
- Hill
summer heavens
full of stars and clouds
palm tree silhouettes
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fountain flows
from the goddesses’ vase
into the dessert
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at the jazz café
Duke Ellington rendition
swinging summer night
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honeysuckle lines
the ancient road
sweetening the hill
Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #51 classical way of writing haiku
dusty cover
lost within the pages
a magical dream
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