in the pillow’s folds
our talk
the hiss of the waves
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This poem was written in response to Carpe Diem Writing and Enjoying Haiku #5 creating beauty, 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 Imelda May –
off-gold
at roadside a drying trickle
of fox’s brains
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This poem was written in response to Carpe Diem #1240 Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue (Barnett Newman), 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 Tommy James and the Shondells, with Tommy wearing a fox curled up on his head –
a hand lies
on the blue guitar’s hip
mirroring you
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This poem was written in response to Carpe Diem #1236 Mirror by Jaume Plensa, 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 Siouxsie & the Banshees –
white slap of hail
on my face and we’re not even
lovers
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This poem was written in response to Carpe Diem Utabukuro, the poem-bag #1 re-introduction “a single tulip”, another great prompt at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, in which Chèvrefeuille asked us to choose a haiku or tanka we admire and write our own haiku inspired by it. So, here’s a favourite of mine by Basho, which I read again recently:
still alive
but frozen into one –
sea-slugs
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To me there seems such a mysterious atmosphere in Basho’s haiku, probably due to the fact that a normal, albeit peculiar scene is examined so intensely until other possible meanings start to rise up. So, for my haiku I tried to borrow the coldness of that scene and the eerie intimacy. All of the poems in the link-up can be read here. And, to finish, here’s the Sleepy Jackson –
soon, brother
an autumn leaf
in moonlight
in moonlight
each footstep
fallen leaves
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This poem was written in response to Carpe Diem #1232 abstract autumn (unknown artist), 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 the Walker Brothers –
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