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renga with Basho
Written for: Carpe Diem – Renga With Basho #9 A Mark On The Wall “The goal is to create a renga with the given haiku, the line-up your own choice, through adding your second stanzas of two lines wit approximately … Continue reading
Welcome Weather Change
Written for: the SundayWhirl, Wordle #364 Words: speckled, longing, sky, rain, quiet, brilliant, dusty, yield, thin, rippled, blend, lilting Brilliant sun thinned over dust-swept plain. Rippling clouds darkened sky, yielding speckled drops of quiet rain, a lilting blend of silver … Continue reading
variations on rain
Written for: Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads “Fifty Shades of Rain” (posted by Toni) “The Japanese have 50+ words for rain. Being Japanese their words for rain are seasonal, specific, and at times, extremely artistic. We westerners look at rain … Continue reading
La lluvia (The Rain)
Written for: Carpe Diem #1441 – La lluvia (the rain) A wonderful piece of music from the Andes. This song is called “La lluvia” – The Rain. And I think this music can be a great source of inspiration. flute music … Continue reading
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Tagged Haiku, mountains, rain, written from music
Forgivingness of Summer
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Quadrille #57 – “Don’t Rain On My Parade! (posted by Kim) “Join us in writing rain-drenched poems in the hope that together we can magic up a big enough umbrella to keep the rain … Continue reading
Draped in Veils
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #344 Words: birth, veils, rain, broken, silky, soul, sharp, music, saturated, dish, truth, shadows Her silky soul draped in veils was broken– saturated by sharp shadows. Truth is blue music rained down on her … Continue reading
“slashes of rain”
Written for: The Twiglets #67 – “slash of rain” knife sharp sheets of rain slash windows a blurry prism A slasher roamed the streets at night causing townsfolk to live in fright one day rain poured down lakes formed … Continue reading
seeds
Written for: Carpe Diem #1383 – Moses (Musa) clouds fighting a spring wind is raging through nature © Chèvrefeuille (our host) Here is my attempt: seeds of fruit trees blown by wind storms and rain, grow in another land http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.nl/
The Tale Of The Odd Orange Cat
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #336 Words: change, tale, cat, ransom, rain, trample, dangerously, aim, dense, magic, day, band This is the tale of the odd orange cat who could change colors just like that. Was it magic by … Continue reading
silence
Written for: Haiku Horizons – “Silence” Hush falls a sound is absent when rain stops https://haikuhorizons.wordpress.com/
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Tagged Haiku, rain, silence
