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Bamboo Hut – A Viceroy
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a viceroy
seeking a summer flower
how soft
the memory of his hand
barely touching my hair
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Spring 2015
TanshiArt -Butterfly
September Wind
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september wind
blowing about-
the last butterfly
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Tan Renga – Carpe Diem
Today, I am delighted to participate in the prompt at Carpe Diem for a very personal reason. Kris is featuring my poem, which I posted a few weeks ago. The original post is here : Many Conversations A Haibun/Haiga
The challenge is to add two lines to another poet’s haiku to complete the tan renga. The added lines can and should echo something in the poem but can shift the meaning in any direction the second poet desires.
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at sunrise
no words between lovers
just a kiss
a butterfly warming
to every blossom
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©2013 Wabi Sabi
For Carpe Diem ‘ tan renga -just a kiss’ Follow this link to see how other poets completed my haiku!
Impossible
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when pain enters the room
and noise – like thick smoke,
climbs into the bed
with orders to distract and torment
the truth is, it’s impossible to pray;
when voices rudely shout
setting off alarms somewhere behind the eyes
scaring the familiar silence away
you risk everything, even a tumble out the window
brimming, swimming with all your might
you try to listen
but all you hear is the brass band in your head,
there is a great pressure where once there was equilibrium
you are lost in the cacophony
choking on your own words,
until a buttery sulphur, a-fluttering,
happens by your window
and wraps you in its prayer.
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© 2013 Wabi SabiFor Sunday Whirl #116
Future
I have been unable to comment from where I am. I will try to catch up when I have access to my computer again, sometime in the future.
Here are my thoughts on the ‘future’ for Carpe Diem.
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6:50 AM
what is the future?
6:51AM
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facing surgery
an old woman wonders
about tomorrow
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a butterfly
sipping nectar
under a setting sun
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Copyright wabisabi 2013
Work of Art
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a stippled light
falls on a butterfly’s wing
without a sound
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©WabiSabi 2013
For Haiku Heights ‘butterfly’
