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Tag Archives: Haiku

TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge – Oil

26 Saturday Sep 2015

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great photograph, Haiku, Oil

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-2-large

Oil, water don’t mix

Left alone they separate

But shake them up well?

TJ’S Household Haiku Challenge – Cobweb

30 Sunday Aug 2015

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Haiku, spider web

TJ has come up with another very evocative theme for his haiku challenge.  I hope you enjoy my take on it.

Spider_web_with_dew_drops04

Image courtesy of Fir0002/Flagstaffotos via Wikimedia Commons

Bejewelled with dew

The slack invisible threads

Catch us by surprise

TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge – Glass

16 Sunday Aug 2015

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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.

SDC12615For those who look up

Soaring glorious elegance

Beauty and shelter

It is but a roof

Art and science make beauty

Glorious union

TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge – Piano

08 Saturday Aug 2015

Posted by katemartyn in Haiku, Pianoforte, Poetry, TJsHousehold Haiku Challenge

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Haiku

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 …

pianoPrison 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

Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Prompt – Hope, Luck

04 Tuesday Aug 2015

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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 …

birds cutesy timesWhen 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.

TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge – Brolly

01 Saturday Aug 2015

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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 …

umbrella2You are my shelter

Mon mari bien-aimé

Rain storm or sun shine

Haiku Challenge – Ronovan Writes positively – Five, Thrive

29 Wednesday Jul 2015

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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.

DSC00168Run silent, run deep

Full fathom five shipwreck dies

A feast: the fish thrive

TJ’S Household Haiku Challenge – Weeds

25 Saturday Jul 2015

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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.

albany nasturtiumsWeeds sneaked through the fence

Urchins in the elegance

Joyously scattered

TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge

18 Saturday Jul 2015

Posted by katemartyn in Haiku, lamp, Poetry, silver, TJsHousehold Haiku Challenge

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aging gracefully, Haiku

This week I saw in TJ’s photo a rather lovely metaphor for the art of ageing gracefully together with one’s significant other.

lampSoft 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.

TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge

18 Saturday Jul 2015

Posted by katemartyn 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.

pen-1The art of fencing

A boundary to confine

Or weapon to free

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