Ripple #poetry #children

swishing water

all around

waves of colour

splashing sound

child’s smile

in the sun

rays of light

lapping fun

Observing children live life is one of the most calming and rewarding of activities. Watch a child play today…

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Cherry Blossom Smile #haiku #photography

Now that they end
There is no flower that can compare
With cherry blossoms

© Iio Sogi

Reaching toward spring

touching peaceful waters

cherry blossom smiles

The Carpe Diem Haiku Kai prompt for today is the beautiful work (above) by Sogi.

Delight in Her Smile #haiku #photography

open your smile

sun rises on love’s horizon

skinny dip

Prompt for Dec 1st for Chevrefeuille’s Carpe Diem  is Delight in Company

No End to the Moon Dance #haiku #moon

 

kono tsuki o imachi nemachi to yubi o ori

should this moon be waited for by sitting or lying down …? I calculate with my fingers

– Sujyu Takano (1)

by moonlit waters

memories caress the shore

blue moon dance

*

casting a pebble

blue waters ripple outward

smile reflection

 

Prompt at Chevrefeuille’s Carpe Diem:  Moon in the Haiku Tradition ( yes a favorite subject).

Art Craig Cloug Moon Art

Love Never Ends #poetry #photography #4u

What if this day

was my end

would you see my smile

in the skies?

would you hear my laughter

rustling through the trees

would you see my fingers

rustling summer’s breeze?

Were this to be

my last  and final day

would you always know

that you made my spirit  glow?

would you hear songs that I sang

just around the bend

my love’s  forever chorus

you can on this depend

look for it in the spring

grasp for  it in the stars

and never doubt my love

its  always deepening

photo-challenge-threshold #photography #dpchallenge #haiku

strong portal

stands between you and I

entrance grants a smile

This week’s WordPress Photochallenge is Threshold. I had fun looking for interesting thresholds.

Some cool ideas about Thresholds:

1. Your wave is waiting… | Always was a rebel…
2. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | ILEANA PARTENIE
3. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Life&Ink
4. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Stories of The Wandering Feet & Mind
5. weekly photo challenge thershold | photo roberts blog
6. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Alice through the Macro Lens
7. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold … Cloud with a Rainbow Lining | Like a circle in a spiral …
8. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | alifemoment
9. Weekly Photo Challenge #2: Bubba and the Turkey | 365 Days of Thank You
10. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Chronicles of Illusions
11. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold, Japan’s Four Seaons | La Dolce Vita
12. 201. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold. | Sofie’s Diary
13. WPC: THRESHOLD | MY WALL
14. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Foto de Moto
15. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Meg Travels
16. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Ruth E Hendricks Photography
17. The Threshold of Possibility | Thinking Through My Lens
18. 4-5-14 Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | The Quotidian Hudson
19. Threshold | de Wets Wild
20. WPC: Threshold | Forest Garden
21. Threshold: Weekly Photo Challenge | Destino
22. Travel Theme : Misty Flying High | gypsy life
23. Threshold : Weekly photo challenge | scrapydo
24. Weekly Photo Challenge : Threshold | An Evolving Scientist
25. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Jinan Daily Photo
26. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | My Awakening Life
27. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Outreach
28. Sunset Over India | korasunil15
29. Misty Threshold of Inspiration | Canadian Travel Bugs
30. Weekly Photo Challenge – Threshold – Along the wall then……. |
31. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Through the Eye of Bastet
32. Come, Flower – a Haiku | When the Door Closes
33. Weekly photo challenge: threshold | Mochilis Reloaded
34. Weekly photo challenge: Threshold | Deb’s world
35. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Indira’s Blog
36. Melancholy | vic briggs
37. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Travels with my son
38. Weekly Photo Challenge / B4 Retouch: Threshold (Dormitory) | What’s (in) the picture?
39. Threshold | An American in Norway, a Citizen of the World
40. WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE | THRESHOLD | the TEMENOS JOURNAL
41. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Bark Time = everything and nothing
42. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold (III) | Uncle Spike’s Adventures
43. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Square One Notes
44. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | MythRider
45. Weekly Photo Challenge : Threshold | Boundless Nature’s Blog
46. Promises | Travel with Intent
47. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Serendipitous Cookery
48. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold the Second | my cyber house rules
49. The threshold of Myogyou Temple | Summerfield84’s English blog
50. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Beijing Daily Photo 2
51. Weekly Photo Challenge: Sunday Morning Threshold (part III) | Eye Candy Visionz
52. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold: to floral art | Colonialist’s Blog
53. On the Threshold | Colline’s Blog
54. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | SueBee and Kat
55. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Rois
56. Photo of the Week: Taxco, the Silver City | A Journey of Wonders
57. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | rosekebab
58. We Live In A Flat
59. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Life is great
60. Weekly Photo Challenge-Threshold | WoollyMuses
61. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | My Photolanguage
62. Threshold of a New Day | Heart’s Home
63. It’s Raining In Paradise | Broken Light: A Photography Collective
64. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold (B4 the start) | What’s (in) the picture?
65. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Ain’t Mine No More
66. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Lucid Gypsy
67. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | belgradestreets
68. C’mon, cross the threshold | Freddy’s Photo Project
69. Sunrise, sunrise… Looks like morning in your eyes | Weekly Photo Challenge | Ivy_Mosquito | Love is free
70. Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold | Pinkpodster Ponders

Love’s Flicker #haiku #love #photography

The slightest touch

a knowing smile chuckles

always connected

*

always connected

hands clasped in the darkness

candle light knows

*

candle light knows

where love’s flicker started

there is no end

Photography © L. Moon 2013

Ivory Smile #haiku #photography

dripping soft

embraced by sunlit green

elegant smile

*

running my fingers

ivory tracings so smooth

caught in the moonlight

The lovely prompt for Carpe Diem is Ivory

Ripples of Compassion #haiku #kindness #poetry #photography

Your outstretched hand

reaching toward wounded soul

fingertips meet

*

fingertips meet

heart warmed with kindness’ smile

reflect in the sky

*

reflect in the sky

ripples of  compassion

circle the earth

It is so refreshing that the smallest act of kindness can have a ripple effect

Thanks to Kristjaan at Carpe Diem for prompting us to reflect upon compassion.

Photography: “Ripples of Life” © L. Moon 2012

Inspired by Burns and a rose #poetry #Burns

A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns
~~~
O my Luve’s like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
~~~
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry:
~~~
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.
~~~
And fare thee well, my only Luve
And fare thee well, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.
~~~

Inspired by a Rose

by L. Moon

~~~~~

My love is like the rose

red are  her lips that speak

soft fragrance on her skin

I wish to breathe so deep

~

She is so fair my dear

her eyes they becoken me

deeper than blue sky

foamier than the sea

~

I cherish you  my heart

true to the end you’ll see

on one knee I did ask

loving devotion thou didst read

~

I bid thee now farewell

yet for a little while

It cannot be too long

my world wrapped up in your smile

Photograph: Fallen Rose L. Moon copyright 2012