My submission today is in response to the Carpe Diem prompt: passing of spring.
Chèvrefeuille invites all to “Share your haiga with us all here at our Haiku Kai. Have fun!”
Passing of Spring Haiku
Tulips bow their heads
Green leaves sway in reverence
Spring’s new dawn has passed
First, many thanks to Cee for featuring my post last week – Freeways, Expressways, and Highways – among many other wonderful ones. I’m very humbled, since my expertise lies in the photography of humans from the inside out – though I have just as great an amateur passion for trying to capture the beauty I find in the world around me to share with others. So thank you for allowing me a venue for that. 🙂
Now onward to Cee’s challenge for this week, highlighting the colors white and/or blue. For this one, I thought I’d share a few my own little C’s photos that she took at her uncle’s (and now new aunt’s) wedding, using my camera. Whereas I most enjoy taking wider expanse landscapes, she most enjoys closer views of flora and fauna (often mixed with eclectic angles of life from her perspective).
She had no direction, assistance or editing help with these – she just took off with ‘camera in 10-year-old hand.’ So it was great fun for me when I later downloaded the SD card and got to see segments of the day through her eyes!
I often wonder how much more wondrous this wounded world would be –
If we too but tarried and took the time through others’ eyes to see.
Here’s to time well taken,
-jody
The PHOTO CHALLENGE for this week is:
Share a photo inspired by a poem, verse, song lyric or story.
I took this photo while in the Holy Land a few years ago with an early version pocket digital camera and added a little editing effect.
For my poetry, I’m selecting a couple of excerpts from Joseph Brodsky’s reflective piece, “I Sit by the Window.”
I sit by the window. And while I sit my youth comes back. Sometimes I'd smile. Or spit.
I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.
The cross taken down
Lying empty as my heart
World’s light extinguished
All hope now gone.
Arise!
my soul pleads
As if knowing more than I,
Bathed in nothingness
Left chilled to the bone.
Who am I to beg?
Did I not condemn him there?
Abandoned to die…
Alone.
All
Alone.
-jody love
In the midst of cold, wet, dreary weather, I spent most of my weekend trying to console one of my characters, Cody, with his loss (by working diligently to finally put a large portion of this manuscript together). Meanwhile – in the real world – one of my best friends spent the weekend caring for her elderly aunt in her final hours while trying to console her family over the loss she was sharing.
I came into work this morning feeling particularly melancholy (probably because it’s still cold and wet and especially dreary, being a Monday and all). I had (took?) a few spare moments to pen these thoughts as they came to mind.
I’m sure my poem could use some work, but I hope it brings comforting thoughts to those who need them today. Blessings. -j
Here is it in print form only, for those who might have trouble reading it in its “artsy-fartsy” form:
True Love’s Falling
Don’t let the sun set on your tomorrows
Though darkness may cloud your todays
Our falls always take us to sorrows
In due course,
Cold months surrender to Mays
The day’s sun approaching future horizons
You haven’t yet stepped out to greet
All of life’s best and mesmerizing surprises
In God’s time,
Will remove your false sense of incomplete
Breathe deeply the crisp wind that’s blowing
Take hope in all future renewals
Cleanse your heart in solely knowing…
Set love shines more brightly
Than all polished jewels
Related Link: Rolling River
Muted orchid shade
splattered with spewing spit as
words fly from her lips
Written for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai for
Carpe Diem is celebrating its 2nd Anniversary this month! Feeling as though it’s been that long since I’ve been a part of this poetically encouraging & educational community, I wanted to stop in today to say Congratulations! to Kristjaan/Chèvrefeuille (and all the Carpe Diem Haiku family who have been a part of this wonderful site over these past two years).
Unsure my mind was creatively ready to contribute, I was thrilled to see the following invitation for a prompt: “Today we are going further along memory-lane and we have arrived at July 2013 in which all prompts were extracted from the novel “Manuscript found in Accra” by Paulo Coelho….Now it is up to you my dear Haijin, visitors and travelers to write an all new haiku (or if you were a member than back in 2013, you may also share your haiku which you created for this same prompt in July 2013).” So be it! Here’s my blast from the past on Inner Beauty:
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in what mirror can
I see that which may escape
a world looking out
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a world looking out
for itself with senses
dimmed from all concealed
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no more dimmed than me
who cannot fully see who
stares from inside out
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Spread my wings
Of broad imagination
Tip to tip
No gravity
Aim for prolific horizon
Dare not look down
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Written on the spur of the moment (on a much-needed break from writing a scientific article) in response to:
in which the goal is to compose and link-up a haiku inspired on a given photo and a prompt within 12 hours. This feature will bring you into that “moment” as short as the sound of a pebble thrown in water, one of the base-rules of haiku.
Thanks for the loveliness of the moment! -j
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