the deep green gaze
deepens while a still white gull
teardrops the lake
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This poem was written in response to Carpe Diem #806 Lake Victoria, another great prompt from Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. All of the poems in the link-up can be read here. And, to finish, here’s Phoebe Jevtovic Rosquist & David Tayler, performing Philip K. Dick’s favourite song (now that’s one hell of an axe!) –
let midnight pass
a sweet scent shared as you and I, honey
suckle
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This poem was written in response to Carpe Diem Utabukuro #8, another great prompt from Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. All of the poems in the link-up can be read here. And, to finish, here’s Iggy Pop and David Bowie –
lazily I tread
the soft grass and a summer moth
treads the soft air
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This poem was written in response to Carpe Diem Modern Times Haiku #2 Margaret Chula’s “following my footprints”, another great prompt from Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. All of the poems in the link-up can be read here. And, to finish, here’s Kurt Vile –
Another story of mine has been posted at bookscover2cover; called Scrying, it can be read by clicking on the link. This story was written because ‘scrying’ is a nice word and because the future is so easy to predict that it’s a wonder all those charlatans can still make a decent living – you want to know what’s in store just look at the old people around you.
And to finish, here’s Benny Spellman –
electric blue
the sky drops a thin shard
onto green grass – dragonfly
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This poem was written in response to Carpe Diem Utabukuro #7 a drop of water by Cor van den Heuvel, another great prompt from Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. In this post I used the poem chosen by Chèvrefeuille as an inspiration:
a drop of water
floats by the canoe
on a curled leaf
© Cor van den Heuvel
What I like about this haiku is how it paints a scene but then plays with the reader’s expectations: the canoe should float on the water but here the water floats by the canoe, not only that but when I visualise that drop of water on the leaf it seems to be mimicking the appearance of a person sat in their canoe. “Surprise” is one of the classic elements of haiku and this poem is a subtle example of the technique.
All of the poems in the link-up can be read here. And, to finish, here’s The Primitives –
IN MEMORY EVERYTHING SEEMS TO HAPPEN TO MUSIC -Tennessee Williams
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