Tag Archives: Birds

Carpe Diem: Troiku

29 Tuesday Sep 2015

Posted by in Carpe Diem, Challenges, Haiku, Poetry

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Done for Carpe Diem. A Troiku based on Basho’s haiku below:

butterflies and birds

restlessly they rise up

a cloud of flowers

©Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)

butterflies and birds

on an exchange of colours

bright autumn morning

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restlessly they rise up

in kaleidoscopic hues

these plumes of feathers

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a cloud of flowers

rising above the dust

dance of peacocks

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
29/09/15

Heeding Haiku With HA: Love’s Wings

14 Wednesday May 2014

Posted by in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry, Tan Renga

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Done for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie – Heeding Haiku with HA. This week we are to  look around, find the birds, make an eye-contact with them and let them gaze into us so that we can touch upon their wondrous beauty as well and then, write a haiku or tanka or both featuring them.  Quite interesting I can hardly see myself  going to a bird and letting it gaze into me. I’m pretty scared.

Love’s Wings

these stars in your eyes

as you look down from your perch

whisper to my soul

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calming anxious fears

I close my eyes, take a leap

 we  glide over peaks

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I fly without wings

holding dear the memory

of  mesmeric eyes

revealing ancient secrets

we touch the sky on  love’s wings

Copyright © Celestine Nudanu
14/05/14)

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