NaHaiWriMo May 24th & May 25th … prompts respectively: perspective & releasing

Haiku prompt perspective:
pleiades at dawn a distant blue planet – earth

Haiku prompt release:
summer lake a dawn run and swim – full release

NaHaiWriMo – May 9th … prompt: power as in solar plexus chakra.

sitting quietly gathering power – cloud peaks

NaHaiWriMo – May 6th prompt: the Sea and Magpie Tales

 

Haiku – for NaHaiWriMo

barefoot in the sea – hermit crab tickles my foot

 

Gogyohshi – for Magpie Tales

serene and scenic the river is peaceful

i dangle my toes into the water’s coolness

i know that today is for thinking of peace

i wonder

will there ever be peace in sudan

Photo of Stainforth River by Irwell prompt for Magpie Tales

 

 

NaHaiWriMo May 3rd Haibun and Haiku (prompt-mother)

Haibun

My mother was once beautiful, elegant, sophisticated.  Easily I remember the cocktail parties.  Mummy and Pup were always at the center of any social gathering.  But home was not really a social gathering now was it?  No, home was where you were real.  And reality at home was very different and very difficult.  I have known for quite a number of years now that Pup was scarred deeply from combat PTSD in WWII.  That makes for very easy forgiveness.  It was not until two years ago that I realized quite fully; that Mummy, as a US citizen worked for the Office of War Information in London during the Blitz.  Once I knew and understood, complete forgiveness was very easy.  Her experience was no different than combat.

Haiku

mother elegance with flair – soul lost to the london blitz 

NaHaiWriMo April 13th prompt ‘lover cat’

in the small square of sun – kittens bathing

NaHaiWriMo April 12th prompt “swing.”

back and forth back and forth – an empty swing

NaHaiWriMo April 11th … prompt mountains any season.

I stand in darkness – the mountain’s shadow over me

NaHaiWriMo April 9th prompt: water

mother robin leading her young – to the fountain

NaHaiWriMo April 8th prompt, religious observances

easter – one path to the divine

NaHaiWriMo April 5th … spring kigo prompt kite, bubbles, balloons and such.

kite strings – mother robin weaving her nest