Autumn Retreat Day 7

Carpe Diem's Autumn Retreat 2018 Love 

Day  7 Autumn Retreat 2018  Love Eternal

dwarf star glows
spilling light and warmth
year after year

earth absorbing

life giving energy 

after all these years
your smile still brings

life to my heart

Summer Retreat Day 25

Carpe Diem Summer Retreat - Day 25

wind whispers

following a monarch’s path

breathing stilled
secrets discovered
life’s lesson’s unfold

Summer Retreat Day11

Carpe Diem Summer Retreat - Day 11

summer nights
under a starry sky
finding our way
possibilities unlimited
dreams of new frontiers

Summer Retreat -Day 4

Carpe Diem Summer Retreat

deep woods
path obscured
confused

releasing my fear
I follow a butterfly

Tanka Challenge Prompt 49

Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge - Animals and Sunshiine

clowder of felines
racing up and down the stairs
midnight till morning
kitties nap all afternoon
heaped by the door in sunshine

Find the Silence -Day 6

Day 6 -

Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off - find the silence

rainbow smoke

rising above the mountains

painting  the skyline

from the fire's destruction

only an eerie silence

Romance

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #12 Romance

This is not the romance of novels, but it's as romantic as my life gets.  Celebrating 23 years together.

walking in the woods
you gather leaves for me
and photograph birds
I trip and you steady me
your hand lingering with mine

a walk to the runnel
inuksuk in the dry creek bed
compel inspection
because they make me happy
you photograph all of them

autumn trek thru woods

we walk along in silence

listening to life

taking my hand you lean close

one soft kiss upon my lips

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #12 Romance

This is not the romance of novels, but it's as romantic as my life gets.  Celebrating 23 years together.

walking in the woods
you gather leaves for me
and photograph birds
I trip and you steady me
your hand lingering with mine

inuksuk in the dry creek bedcompel inspectionbecause they make me happyyou photograph all of them

a walk to the runnel

we walk along in silence

listening to life

taking my hand you lean close

autumn trek thru woods

one soft kiss upon my lips

Puddles

Carpe Diem #965 puddles

rainy and alone
I jump in a puddle

someone smiles

other students join in
new friendships made

Run

Haiku Horizon's : Run

racing barefoot

across the fields

windblown kisses

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holding a red string

running down the street

garbage bag kite

brother laughs

trying to keep up

Strolling Yesterday

Carpe Diem Special #189 Georgia's 5th strolling yesterday (tanka)

strolling yesterday

astonished by the pine trees.

they seemed to copy

the heavy rain laden skies

imitating it’s wet lay.

© Georgia (a.k.a. Bastet)

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under the wet sky
a kitten shelters
at the base of a pine

pawing after

an unexpected moth

Garden Spider

Carpe Diem Tanka Shrine #5 "crystal cobweb"

garden spider

zigzagging his web

with silken strands

lying in wait
on a summer's eve

On a Grey Morning

Carpe Diem Tanka Shrine # 1 Georgia's "dull grey morn"

"Frost patterns 2" by Schnobby - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 

with the touch of a finger

frost feathers on glass melt

fading like frozen dreams

on a cold grey morning

I linger and remember

White Christmas

Carpe Diem #634 White Christmas

fresh snow

decorations of white

on every tree

new boots and mittens

children bundled up

waiting christmas snow

~

suddenly door slams
man and reindeer tracks 
in fresh snow

six kids waiting for Santa

race to bed worried

Winter Wonderland

Carpe Diem Time Glass #14 Winter Wonderland

Challenge to write a short chained poem with a maximum of eight stanza following the classical rules (5-7-5; 7-7; 5-7-5; 7-7; 5-7-5; 7-7; 5-7-5; 7-7) and your last stanza (classically called "ageku") has to close the chain by associating on the first stanza.

dawn breaks through the trees
shadows sashay across snow
deer tracks mar surface

startled white tail buck takes flight
I pause in awe of splendor

Crystalline flakes
dance to the wind’s symphony
evoking spirits

whirlwind of snow gaining power
overtaking my footsteps

icy drizzle falls
crystalizing everything
glistening like diamonds

branches coated with thick ice
creaking under extra weight

evening deepens cold
roads covered with icy paths
and weary travelers

ground covered with new snowfall
just waiting for fresh footprints

Frost "Dust of Snow"

Carpe Diem Ghost Writer # 37
To read Robert Frost's poem click the link above.

bright snowy day

frosted pines

myriad of footprints

little boy whacking trees

avalanche on head

"A Dream Within a Dream"

Carpe Diem Ghost Writer #32, A Dream Within a Dream
This prompt was from Jen of Blog It or Lose It

I was inspired to write a haiku, a tanka, and a haibun

sound of my sobs

muffled in the crashing waves

my heart erased

~

sands of time held still

one last kiss upon your brow

I pause, hold my breath

afraid to open my eyes

your footsteps washing away

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Haibun for Karen

When a family friend passed away at age 51, it brought tears to my eyes and heart.  She was an athlete, took good care of her body, ate healthy, lived a clean life.  They received her diagnosis on a family vacation to the ocean.  As she walked with her younger sister they found a broken sand dollar.  Her sister remarked how it was a shame it could not be whole.  Here in my friend remarked about how she liked the broken pieces best.  That they were like all of us incomplete; you never knew when two pieces would fit together to make something beautiful.  Her brothers combed the beach that night and collected buckets of broken sand dollars.  These were passed out at her celebration of life along with the story much better told and her words more elegantly written.  My fragment has long since been ground up in my purse and the paper lost in an avalanche of things to keep,  but reading Poe’s “A Dream with in a Dream” brought this to mind.  Life is a messy journey and even broken things hold much beauty.

   

sand dollar fragments

wash in on moonlit shore

fragile life, wanes