lips whisper speak
echoes cast golden shadow
un forgotten flame
Kristjaan’s prompt at Carpe Diem is Candle. There are so many meanings in the flickering light of a candle – what meaning has it for you?
Tag: Jane Reichhold
View at Dawn #tanrenga #nature #photography
the open window
screened with a web
leaf shadows
raise the misty morning veil
mother leads her fawns to drink
Today’s Tan Renga challenge #108 at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is to echo Jane Reighhold’s beautiful haiku.
Lonely are her shoes #tanka #art
One of Teika’s Ten Tanka Techniques as discussed by Jane Reichhold:
- Mystery and depth – yūgentei, the image evoking ineffable loneliness
This category is associated mostly with Fujiwara Shunzei (1114-1204) Teika’s renowned father and tanka expert. Teika mentions this in some of his other teachings and uses as examples poem #3:254 Kin’yōshū by Toshiyori:
uzura naku / mano no irie no / hamakaze ni / obananami yoru / aki no yūgure
cries of quail
from the shore of Mano cove
winds blow
waves of plume grass
ripple in autumn dusk
dance is done
discarded ribbons on stage
shoes on a nail
old eyes caress memory
finger yellowed playbill’s dust
Departing the Year #haiku #photography
Today our prompt at Carpe Diem is departing year, and it is extracted from Jane Reichhold’s “A Dictionary of Haiku” … it’s a nice prompt I think and it fits (of course) the time of year … Here is Jane’s example of this prompt:
slow rains
as if leaves were falling
at winter’s end
over my shoulder
snow blanketed memories
walking away
Sweeping my porch #haiku #photography
sweeping my porch
thunder claps while lightening points
reveal what I missed
Our third Carpe Diem Special by Jane Reichhold is today’s prompt. For this Special Kristjaan has chosen a haiku of Summer.His hope is that her haiku will give inspiration to write a haiku in the same sense, tone and Spirit as the one by Jane.
sweeping the porch
bright prints of raindrops
followed by splashes
~Jan Reichhold
photograph: Summer’s Edge © L. Moon 2012
penned in moon dust 