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despite workplace file,
yields and melts in the fire,
perfume stirs the bee
© Tournesol '14
Write a haiku with 3 randomly chosen words.
I found file, fire, perfume at Creativity Games
Showing posts with label mindlovemiserysmenagerie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mindlovemiserysmenagerie. Show all posts
2014/10/02
2014/09/26
a thousand deaths (renga)
Metallica - One [Official Music Video]
Be a man
he said
yes, Father
he said
yes, Father
right, left, right, left,right
attention!, aim, fire
attention!, aim, fire
be a man
he said,
yes, Sergeant
he said,
yes, Sergeant
peacekeeper or warrior
protecting and killing
protecting and killing
never-ending
causes for democracy
wrapped in bloodstained cloths
causes for democracy
wrapped in bloodstained cloths
end of tour of duty
safely on home turf
safely on home turf
only innocents
feel the safety
civilians
feel the safety
civilians
how he yearns for safety
turning back the clock
turning back the clock
nightmares, flashbacks
a thousand deaths each day
deathrow
a thousand deaths each day
deathrow
© Tournesol
2014/09/22
mothers (senryû)
mother and infant,
tender embrace
heart of a tiger
tender embrace
heart of a tiger
~
teen roars
I hate you,
mother loves
I hate you,
mother loves
© Tournesol'14
Posted by Cheryl-Lynn Roberts, 2014/09/22
2014/09/10
Aham (haibun)
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The
daisy is my favourite flower. It is a simple and modest flower. It is a mixture of contradictions as well,
with strength and sturdiness, standing independent and tall. The many petals representing so many facets
of a personality and yet, hidden beneath are rows of yet to be discovered unknown
faces.
I heard
somewhere, years ago, that the daisy was too proud, always trying to ‘show up’
among other flora. So the Great Spirit sent the daisy out alone in meadows and
obscure places to flourish. Ah, but the daisy still did.
I think
it was not that the daisy wanted to show off its beauty but rather to show off
its durability, its strength and tenacity.
The determination required to flourish even out in vacant fields facing
all sorts of weather…tells me that is a strong personality.
Alas,
where there is strength, there is an expectation that is will last forever…it
wanes with time, with age. The stems are no longer as sturdy to carry the
flower and the petals start to wilt, slowly falling one by one…the daisy needs
a rod or staff on which to lean. Will this proud stubborn daisy ever ask for
support ?
spirited daisy
reaching for the sky
vanity wins
withering
Mother Nature’s cruel wit
reality wins
sagging stem
no staff in sight, finally
humility rules
The price of humility is mindfulness leaning for acceptance.
marguerite animée
levée vers le ciel
vanité triomphe
flétrissement
esprit cruel, mère nature
vérité triomphe
tige accroupie
aucun soutien, enfin
humilité règne
© Tournesol '14
Aham is a Hindu word for ego or pride.
Heeding Haiku With HA: “Aham”
MindLoveMiserys Menagerie
2014/09/07
raw destructions (haiku)
hostile clouds
thundering
torrential rage
acquiesce in
despair
fly quivers
whirlwind rips
a day’s labour
a spider
mourns
gales swept them far away as the vicious storm quenched insatiable greed
Posted by Cheryl-Lynn Robers, 2014/09/07
2014/08/22
Cheers to food (haiga)
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spicy tomotoes
onions, pasta, veggies too
cooking therapy
cream cheese icing
carrot cake
oven baked
calories ignored
simmering
crock-pot Irish stew
home baked
bread
gelato
vanilla and
cherry swirls
hot fudge sauce
hot fudge sauce
© Tournesol 2014
2014/08/18
False hope (shadorma/senryû)
When I saw this photo taken by Georgia at Basket and Sekhmet's Library, I had to smile. I had taken a phto of 2 payphones in the Métro last Spring. The fact that these are near such a lovely green space stirred contradictions...beauty, ugliness, pleasure and pain and this is what my muse came up with for
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(shadorma)
Assaults
lurk
in the
dead of night
behind trees
far from
phones
cyclists
never heard her screams
would
have dialed for help.
(senryû)
predators
always
study their
territory
and their
prey.
(shadorma)
Phones by
parks
gives false
illusions
of safety
late at
night
listen
up! one`s never safe
when monsters still breathe.
© Tournesol '14
Now to make this fun a little and give me more of a challenge, I am adding my photos of these phones in the Métro. Having looked at them, my muse seems fixated on sad affairs.
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(shadorma)
unused
phones
ever see
someone
actually
use a
phone?
subways are
sometimes seedy
all's in
the open
(senryû)
people make
believe
blind to
sordid actions
“I ain’t
seen nothin’”
unless
there`s
a Samaritan
does
good deeds,
calls
for help,
shouts out
loud scaring monsters
back
into their hole.
(tilus)
Wherever you go, bring
along a
friend.
(tilus)
Wherever you go, bring
along a
friend.
© Tournesol '14
Posted by Cheryl-Lynn Roberts, 2014/08/18
2014/08/14
2014/08/11
Time lingers ((senryû))
Photo credits: Julie-de-Waroquier@DeviantArt
Better late then never, I say with this interesting photo prompt. Photo challenge #20 Time Goes by like a train, at MindLoveMisery's Menagerie awakened my memories of living by the train tracks near my grandmother's home. I used to run across as the gate was just coming down, bells ringing and the man in the tower shouting at me to stop but a few times, I still took a chance. How lucky I was not to end up like this though I just wrote...
railway crossing
yesteryear’s tragic loss
her ghost still walks
© Tournesol
But this prompt's title also inspires thoughts about time and we have had several haiku prompts from a few different blogs on "time" in the past weeks. This is what the photo with the title inspired...
summer days crawl
forlorn, waits for her lover
but time has stopped
forlorn, waits for her lover
but time has stopped
© Tournesol
Thank you, Yves, for this interesting photo challenge at MindLoveMiserysMenagerie Photo Challenge /20, Time Goes by.
© Tournesol 2014/08/11
2014/08/06
Death (haiku)
knock knock
emptiness so hard to fill
death.
(c) Tournesol
Submitted for Heeding Haiku with Ha, at mindlovemiserysmenagerie
Life is (haiku)
life’s a miracle
death is inevitable
time will tell
death is inevitable
time will tell
(c) Tournesol
Submitted for Heeding Haiku with Ha, at Mindlovemiserys Menagerie
2014/08/02
Hot summer (haiga)
© Tournesol
*
sunflower sways
billowing clouds overhead
wind chimes.
billowing clouds overhead
wind chimes.
*
scorching night
sleeping naked on the cot
cicadas sing
sleeping naked on the cot
cicadas sing
© Tournesol ‘14/08/02
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