Tan Renga: RumblingWinterStorm

Rumbling winter storm –
Ents are dancing with their wives –
ancient limbs entwined
© Paloma

lightning cast quickening shadows
the party is in full swing

Pat R

5/30/16

For Carpe Diem Haiku

 

Tan Renga: Single Frosty Rose

A new year begins
With the blooming
Of a single frosty rose (Mizuhara )

at twilight water beads form
each one with its own story…

For Carpe Diem Haiku

Peonies In Bloom

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Aah, the peonies!!!
All photos here taken in my garden!! Yep, I can’t believe it either:)

peonies in bloom –
at a pace of her own
she unfurls in a lazy stretch
in worship of the sun

Pat R

5/30/16

Tan Renga: Temple in the Sky

temple in the sky
the road opens
a slice of blue sea (Ubugu)

beckons the wind tossing waves
in play frolicking at the shore

temple in the sky
the road opens
a slice of blue sea (Ubugu)

near days end the setting sun
builds it’s beach side audience

Pat R

5/29/16

For Carpe Diem Haiku

Glory Days

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perching at
the edge of summer –
glory days

Pat R

5/28/16

Weekly Photo Challenge: Spare

 

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Pat R

5/27/16

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/spare/

Tan Renga: A Still Water

such a still water
even the dragonfly
splash it with the tail
© Tan Taigi (Tr. Gabi Greve)

sending ripples through the clouds
that are peering up at me

Pat R

5/26/16

For Carpe Diem Haiku

Tan Renga: Silence

silence
in the blind wind’s dance
blossoms (Jane Reichhold)

scurry along the ground’s surface
caught in a wave of leaves

Pat R

5/26/16

http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2016/05/carpe-diem-tan-renga-challenge-month_25.html?m=1

Perspective

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Image source: Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System (Sgt. Emily Green)”

Prompt words: Ethereal, placid, meander, forget, silver

PERSPECTIVE

white foamy waves dash toward shore, strains of my life

nothing ethereal about them on their approach

angry waves morph to placid waters
as they ease upon the sand

mesmerized I sit with eyes closed, meandering thoughts

lost in the language of the surf – a presence greater than I

the twinkling shimmering silver on the ocean’s surface a shifting changing wonder

an ever present reminder that
my ails is but a speck in this universe

no planets revolve around me

Pat R

5/25/16

 

https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2016/05/18/poetry-challenge-31-message-in-a-bottle/

Two phrase stories

Prompt: “….and in a puff….”
“…and in a puff, all logic went out the window.”

For hbhatnager

I am trying this for the first time. A challenge posted over at hbhanager.wordpress.com

Stop over for further reading on the prompt, quite an interesting premise, could be fun:) It’s called a two phrase story.  The prompt phrase for this week is “…and in a puff…” to be completed however you’d like.

 

Pat R

 

5/25/16