autumn colours (027 – 30doh thirty days of September haiga)

autumn colours
hot red and tawny carpets
– sunshine yellow too

© Tournesol’15

027 – 30 doh – thirty days of September haiga – yellow – Rick Daddario

winter guest (026 – 30 doh thirty days of haiga)

welcome guest
pecks at seeds in bitter cold
birdfeeder sways

© Tournesol ’15

026 – 30 doh thirty days of haiga, September 26 Rick Daddario – Seeds

Neruda’s passion (025 – 30 doh – thirty days of Haiga September )

passion drips
scripts of heated desires
Pablo exhales

© Tournesol ’15

Pablo Neruda – I like For You To Be Still (Narrator/Glenn close)

Other Resources:RebelleSociedty

Written for 30 doh – thirty days of haiga September 25 – Rick Daddario – Poet

Blue bullet (024 doh thirty days of September)

faster than gales
underground highways
blues on rails

© Tournesol ’15

024 doh Thirty days of Haiga September 24 – Rick Daddario

Merci Chèvrefeuille (tanka – haiku)

I am trying to keep the mood of our host and mentor for already, almost three years of hosting haiku memes.  Rather than translate word for word, I have written both a French and English interpretation of his haiku:

haiku poets
write about transience … a short moment
lasting in time

© Chèvrefeuille

haiku poets
come together in passing – still,
virtual and real

poètes de haïku
rendez-vous précaire – encore,
virtuel et vrai

© Tournesol ‘15

And this is my thanks to our mentor, Chèvrefeuille, who shares his passion and thoughtfully teaches us more than words, daily.

haiku lover
shares his passion, teaching
patiently
one moment comes to life
seventeen syllables

© Tournesol’15

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai – Time Machine

I chose this video of More Than Words (one of my most favourite songs)  with the original  Extreme in front of a live audience. I think this shows our “coming together” at Carpe Diem as a family.   Merci Kristjaan pour ton dévouement . Cheryl-Lynn

dew frost (haiku)

Chèvrefeuille writes two beautiful haiku inspired by dew frost .

early morning walk
through the park that looks so fragile –
sunrise and dew frost

cobweb sparkles
prince winter has made his round
through the city-park

© Chèvrefeuille

Dew Frost – Chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com

Here is my inspiration on dew frost

rosée lumineuse
dentelle à l’aube,  papillonne
soupçon de l’hiver

glistening dewdrops
quivering web of dawn
hint of winter

© Tournesol ‘15

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Autumn walk (30 doh – 023 September haiga)

Finally, she can breathe with the temperatures lowered but not plummeted to shock the body. Walking to work she looks at the fallen leaves forming a lovely carpet and up at the changing colours ever so slowly resisting the transition this year for some reason. Ah, yes, due the unusual warmth, nature is quite confused. Again she approaches her concrete garden that seems to blossom only in the fall. Perhaps it is a gift from the gods hiding underneath sowing the seeds all through summer.

trees shed leaves
yielding to season’s slumber
wildflowers resist

© Tournesol’15

30 days of haiga – 023 – Autumn Walk – Rick Daddario

Waiting (troiku)

©Clr’15

waiting
window gazing she knows
I’m here for the night

waiting
sleeps in her five beds
knowing I`ll come home

window gazing she knows
twenty-four buses pass
then I waltz in

I’m here for the night
never a doubt that I am
her night companion

©Tournesol’15

©Clr’15

twilight walk (haibun)

© Clr’15

This time of year she looks forward for her walk home late at night. The moon gets bigger nearing midnight, shining on her path she walks slowly not feeling really alone.

her lone walk,
autumn moon hovers
midnight companion

© Tournesol ’15

022-30doh-2015 Thirty Days of September Haiga~ Lost en route

Haiga 022 – doh

losing sight
they all race to the finish,
pinnacle of life

©Tournesol’15

022-30doh-2015 Thirty Days of September Haiga~ Day 22: cars – Rick Daddario