Tranquility - Carpe Diem’s Tackle it Tuesday #1 Serenity

 

Sri Swami Sivananda (1887-1963)

This week the first episode of Tackle it Tuesday is Serenity and it is based on the philosophy of Sri Swami Sivananda (1887-1963) who composed the song of the 18-ity.  He was born in the south of India an studied medicine.  He worked as a doctor several years in Malaysia. After that he settled in Rishikesh at the foot of the Himalayans where he devoted his life to yoga and the spreading of it.

The first ity was serenity and the goal was to meditate and contemplate about this ity and become silent. Every ity needs a week (or a month) to learn. After you have done all 18 ‘ity, you start again with number one and so on.  There will become a time that you have changed into a better person, more in balance.

deep silence

at the top of the mountain

I discover myself

© Chèvrefeuille

centre on my breath

silence,  picture open meadows

OM, I`m at one.

eyes closed

cross legged, breath relaxed

tranquility

© Tournesol 2014/08/04

Submitted for: Carpe Diem TAckle it Tuesday #1 Serenity

Lanky Sunflowers( haibun) (CPHKFamily #4 Sunflower)

Chèvrefeuille has started a WordPress blog called CarpeDiemHaikuKaiFamily.  Well, this is already Prompt #4 Sunflower, so better late than never.

Here is Chèvrefeuille's offering:

 

after the thunderstorm
the sunflowers in the backyard
have broken

 

© Chèvrefeuille

My sister grew sunflowers in her country home and that was the first time I saw such huge, tall flowers towering over ME and I`m tall! One summer in 1995,  I planted a variety of seeds of  wild flowers late in June. That was the summer I was trying for an English Garden and we had such a nice property in the back of the house with a huge field, small stream and further a wooded area. It was heaven in the back and civilization in the front of our home.

By the end of June, no sign of growths, end of July only a mere foot tall lanky, thin stems. But by September, whoa! these were giant fellas alright!!  They almost touched the roof of the garden shed.  It was pretty in the daytime but in the night, if I had to go out back, their shadows were a bit daunting...no creepy!

Credits: Wikipedia

 

round yellow face
looming shadows sway
sunflowers at night

 

standing tall
reaching for the sun
hover over me.

 

sunflowers
reap seeds for salad dressing,
cooking oil

 

lankiness
towering sunflowers
like a teen.

 

© Tournesol '14/07/29

 

Submitted for: CarpeDiemHaikuKaiFamily #4 Sunflower