Tournesol ~ dans un jardin: haiga

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2014/10/15

hot jukebox (haiga)

I could not wait to find a few moments to attempt this prompt Carpe Diem Ghost Writer #29, "Pop culture references in haiku and senryu". from our host's Ghost Writer, Jen from Blogitorloseit trying to think of some song, a fad, something that could have a hidden meaning within my haiku and then I saw the prompt for Carpe Diem #581, Hanabi (Fireworks). I started multitasking between phonecalls at work and surfing YouTube for samples of fireworks from the International Montreal Fireworks we have every summer. That is held on Saturdays and Wednesday...how I got caught many times on the Jacques Cartier Bridge on Wednesday evenings coming home, forgetting it was that time of year only to be turned back to take the tunnel Louis H. Lafontaine...not my happiest nights nearing midnight.

I will show a small glimpse of only 2 minutes of the fireworks just so you can see from the view of us ordinary citizens watching from the streets, some are on the Jacques Cartier Bridge {which is closed for residents on both sides of the St Lawrence...I live on the South side off the island of Montreal} and that is the bridge you see illuminated from time to time in some of these shots.

Wasn't that amazing! It is exciting, romantic and I feel like the child within me is reborn every time I see fireworks. I like this short clip because it shows you folks gathering on streets and on the bridge to view the fireworks.

Now I listened to the other video below a few times to catch the songs. I first chose a video of Japan 2013 which is spectacular and thought it might be appropos for a haiku but then I wanted to honour our host and looked for an entry of the Netherlands but as I was surfing for this, I kept finding Italy...so many from Italy and thought to myself, well let's have a look and listen to one and see what that's like. When we look from the bridge and parks near the site on Isle Ste-Helène (old home of Expo 1967 Man and His World) we do not hear the music that goes along with the fireworks. There are a few radio channels that air it live so some people will turn that on so we can hear but for me, I enjoy being dazzled by the lights. In this case, you really had to have the music to appreciate this spectacular show of lights in the skies. Georgia, I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

After viewing the video, I knew this was perfect for the Pop Culture and Fireworks prompts...and listening was as important as viewing, so this is my attempt...

Great balls of fire

rocking the world,

penny loafers

faint in exaltation

trodden beetles

flashing love me do’s

no stones unturned

can’t get no satisfaction,

misanthrope

can’t live without you

disco-nnected

disconnected,

blazing heavens stir

flushed face reflects

brilliance of explosion,

transient stars

dancing suggestively,

dirty

dirty,

children beg on streets

feeding families

hope restored, they chant,

“We will survive”!

2014/10/14

masked beauty (haiga)

Wikipedia

Somber geisha

masks each breath,

inner beauty

hidden element in grooming

of a geisha

I too loved this story, although I fell in love with this character in the book; the movie could not include details that allowed the reader to actually feel, taste, smell and hear her inner beauty.

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai #582

2014/10/10

mindfullness (haiga)

Richelieu River rapids, Chambly, Qc.

spirit stirs

inhaling mindfully,

river rapids

2014/10/09

tag you`re it (haiga)

Playing in leaves

Carpe Diem Haiku Family, where we were asked to write a FUN haiku celebrating autumn!

Here is our host’s haiku:

the laughter of children resonates through the park
playing with leaves
© Chèvrefeuille

children squeal
diving on a bed of leaves
tag, you`re it!

tainted (haiga)

repugnant conduct

compulsion rules his scruples

robbed innocence

singing, Farmer-in-the-Dale

naïve to such perversions

self-harm releases

venom from her tainted soul

deflowered teen

Photo credits: London Counselling Directory

MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie – Heeding Haiku with Ha – addictions

2014/10/08

night curtain (haiga)

curtained puffs

shade the glow of a

full moon

2014/10/07

flying home (haiga)

power-driven fowl,
in rays of a setting sun
flies home

2014/10/06

uncertain sky (haiga)

uncertain sky,

hunting for autumn colours

underfoot

Haiku Horizons "sky"

mating call (haiga)

love has no bounds

despite the blazing heat,

cicada sings

gasping silence

broken, cicada

flicks her wing

Carpe Diem time Glass #5, Cicadas

More info on Cicadas here

beyond words (haiga)

© Clr '14 Beauty beyond words

on autumn paths,

one comes across beauty

beyond words

2014/10/04

Nature's paradox (haiga)

final act

melded hues

scent of death

rotting foliage

exit with a bang

kaleidoscope

lie in wait

darkness shades the bed

coverlet of snow

spearflower (haiga)

Black bird feeding on berries

black bird

sings Happy New Year

mouth full

spearflower

hare on fresh snow

tippy toes

2014/10/02

bee's scent (haiga)

despite workplace file,

yields and melts in the fire,

perfume stirs the bee

For MindLoveMiserysMenagerie

Heeding Haiku with Ha

Write a haiku with 3 randomly chosen words.

I found file, fire, perfume at Creativity Games

2014/10/01

uninvited guest (haiku)

CarpeDiem #572, Sage

Old woman shrieks

cat sits by cellar door

gnawing guest

ice storm (haiga)

In 1998 there as a terrible ice storm in Southern Quebec, just minutes from Montréal in the Eastern Townships. This was also in my home town and the city where our children grew up. I had just moved to Toronto, six hours away in Ontario two months before the storm. My family has no electricity for a month and some of my friends lived in areas where it lasted up to six weeks. Many towns between Toronto and Montreal were also affected and it was unsafe and recommended to not drive down. This was January 6th 1998 to early February.

I remember driving down with a friend on the highway and seeing the devastation in the woods along the way. It looked like so many areas had been bombed. It was so sad. The deer that used to come visit our family home (in a city also without hydro for a month) had no choice but to come feed on the cedar hedges in the back. It was a difficult time for residents here. I still feel remorse for not being here to help my family at that time and know that it took many years for some to recuperate from the impact of that storm.

Volunteer firefighters form the US came to help and on my way back to Toronto I remember following a line of army trucks returning to Winnipeg; they had come down to help as well.

Verglas - Québec - Ice storm

Intense ice storm

fauna shudder with worry

on barren land

3-Word Wednesday

barren - intense - worry

autumn's duels (haiga)

season's race

lone flora in grassland

lily wins

yearning (haiga)

I started writing free verse last year for fun and discovered haiku later, not really understanding it but liked using it to describe photos I had taken and eventually learned that haiku could draw a picture for me. I`ve always wanted to draw and learn to paint ...haiku seems to be my learning just how to do that. Fortunately with CP., I can learn at my pace by writing each day and reading beautiful haiku other gifted poets write. It`s become my daily meditation...