26 Saturday Sep 2015
Posted in Haiku, Poetry, TJ's Household Haiku Challenge
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I haven’t done one of TJ’s challenges for a while. But with such an outstanding photo prompt, how could I not attempt this week’s? Still not sure if it quite works, but for what it is worth, here is my offering.
Oil, water don’t mix
Left alone they separate
But shake them up well?
30 Sunday Aug 2015
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TJ has come up with another very evocative theme for his haiku challenge. I hope you enjoy my take on it.
Image courtesy of Fir0002/Flagstaffotos via Wikimedia Commons
Bejewelled with dew
The slack invisible threads
Catch us by surprise
16 Sunday Aug 2015
Posted in 2015, Haiku, Hope, Poetry, TJ's Household Haiku Challenge
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TJ gives another great prompt this week, that sparks many ideas. I have used the ceiling of Galeries Lafayette, another photograph from the camera of my very talented photographer husband to illustrate my take on ‘glass’. A roof is such a basic part of a building, and I love the idea that engineers, craftsmen and artists can combine their talents to clothe something so functional in extraordinary beauty. This image has many happy memories of a wonderful, magical holiday with family in the incomparable city of Paris, a place redolent of loveliness – and magnificent stained glass and leadlight – at every turn.
For those who look up
Soaring glorious elegance
Beauty and shelter
It is but a roof
Art and science make beauty
Glorious union
08 Saturday Aug 2015
Posted in Haiku, Pianoforte, Poetry, TJsHousehold Haiku Challenge
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I loved the picture prompt from TJ this week. The idea of an abandoned, broken piano in an abandoned, forbidding old prison was rather sad but was also a rather more optimistic metaphor for life in general sometimes …
Prison Piano Duet
Though trapped and broken
We still sing with the right touch
The spirit roams free
Imprisoned by age
We still sing with the right touch
Though old and broken
04 Tuesday Aug 2015
Posted in Haiku, Hope, Luck, Poetry, Ronovan Writes Positively Weekly Haiku Prompt
This week Ronovan gives participants an easier challenge that last week I think! My contribution springs from personal experience – fortunately or unfortunately I am not sure, despite the popular belief …
When bird soil means luck
Hope remains unquenchable
In the human heart
The sentences read:
When bird soil means luck hope remains unquenchable.
Hope remains unquenchable in the human heart.
01 Saturday Aug 2015
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best souvenir ever, Haiku, Poetry, The prettiest umbrella in the world, TJs Household Haiku Challenge, weekly challenge
TJ features the most gorgeous umbrella I have ever seen this week, and I have to use the picture. The Haiku he has paired with it is very moving and encapsulates the tragedy of poor Marie Antoinette and her family.
But on a happier note, what a delightful thing to do, taking so much trouble to bring a pretty, frivolous (and awkwardly shaped!) thing home, simply because it was the perfect gift …
You are my shelter
Mon mari bien-aimé
Rain storm or sun shine
29 Wednesday Jul 2015
Posted in Haiku, Poetry, Ronovan Writes Positively Haiku Challenge
I was browsing round looking for more haiku challenges, and came across this rather cool site. Ronovan’s reflections roam far and wide, and cover a vast gamut of topics, styles and genres. I picked up the haiku challenge, because I enjoy TJ’s weekly challenge. Ronovan’s was a real brain teaser, and I’m not sure if I have quite pulled it off. But anyway, here it is.
Run silent, run deep
Full fathom five shipwreck dies
A feast: the fish thrive
25 Saturday Jul 2015
Posted in Haiku, Poetry, TJsHousehold Haiku Challenge
This is a fun challenge from TJ this week, and a lovely photograph. I have to admit that nasturtiums are one of my favourite flowers. Weeds are in the eye of the beholder!
AND I realise belatedly that I have omitted to acknowledge the taker of the beautiful picture below, Helene Parish, who very kindly gave me permission to use it. Check out her blog for more fabulous pictures.
Weeds sneaked through the fence
Urchins in the elegance
Joyously scattered
18 Saturday Jul 2015
Posted in Haiku, lamp, Poetry, silver, TJsHousehold Haiku Challenge
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This week I saw in TJ’s photo a rather lovely metaphor for the art of ageing gracefully together with one’s significant other.
Soft light and silver
Enhance each other’s beauty
In encroaching dusk
Soft light and silver enhance each other’s beauty.
Enhance each other’s beauty in encroaching dusk.
18 Saturday Jul 2015
Posted in Haiku, pen, Poetry, TJsHousehold Haiku Challenge
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I forgot to post this last week. But seeing it was here in drafts ready to go, I have dropped it onto my blog.
Another great prompt image and word from TJ this week. I have gone with a play on the prompt word ‘pen’ this week. Hopefully not too laborious …
The art of fencing enables one to build a pen to confine livestock, or to defend oneself against attack and remain free.
The art of fencing
A boundary to confine
Or weapon to free
