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Listen To The Rain Grow
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #412 Words: rain, grow, listen, seven, humility, change, plate, still, stories, string, where, sits I have heard stories that if you sit perfectly still, count to seven, and listen, you can hear rain growing, changing … Continue reading
Among The Pines
Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Prosery #1 (posted by Bjorn) “As I told you during the last Pubtalk we are now ready to go on with a new updated writing prompt. We want to challenge you a little bit … Continue reading
The Wooden Structure
Written for: Sunday Muse #50 On a simple stroll through the woods, Clara was walking home alone, hoping to commune with nature along the way. Was she lost? Positive she had never seen this locked wooden structure before, Clara tried to peer … Continue reading
Blossom Blues
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #372 Words: matches, vision, blossomed, listen, bruised, numb, voices, unhinged, savor, edges, aches, nail A vision of voices arise from bruised blossoms of peonies, edges aching brown. She listens, absent -mindedly nibbling a nail. … Continue reading
voice like merry bells
Written for: The Twiglets #86 – “voice like merry bells words left his mouth tinkling like merry bells joy resounds when she speaks like merry bells singing mellifluous voice bells of merry making rang from the tower’s voice sprinkling silver … Continue reading
in the meadow
Written for: Carpe Diem Crossroads #13 – Chilly Coolness “Welcome at a new episode of our CDHK feature “Crossroads”, the feature in which I challenge you to create a so called “fusion”-haiku from two haiku and to create a Troiku with … Continue reading
lion in rainbow
Written for: Carpe Diem #1461 – Waterfall “Our classical kigo you will find in the last line of this haiku. Today’s classical kigo is waterfall (taki) and Basho has written several haiku with this kigo. In his Oku no Hosomichi … Continue reading
whistle blowing
Written for: The Twiglets #65 – “a whistle blows” a whistle blows the air is in motion as train approaches She blew the whistle– yet she was fired. At sound of whistle exhausted factory workers sigh and break for lunch https://thetwiglets.wordpress.com/
under tree
Written for: Carpe Diem #1326 transformation (quote from Coehlo’s “Brida”) “Transformation … it’s something we have seen here several times, it’s a kind of path to find your inner truth, your inner beauty or your inner love. And that’s the main … Continue reading
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