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Spring is a Great Time to Move

Spring is a Great Time to Move

Currently obsessed with house hunting shows, especially international and waterfront locations. It’s not that we’re thinking of moving any time soon, but you never know. Should we happen to win a lottery, I’ll be prepared. Looking at real estate always reminds me of my parents, who moved house every two years. My mother said it […]

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Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

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Promised

Promised

What life tears apart
nature mends – cyclical flow,
divinely decreed.

(For RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Challenge: rip/mend)
Image from personal collection.

Posted on June 15, 2019June 12, 2019Categories creativity, life, nature, photography, poetry, spirituality, writingTags haiku, healing, mend, nature, poem, rhythm, rip, Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge4 Comments on Promised
Junkyard

Junkyard

Vestiges of dreams
swiftly disappear, shift lanes –
ambition rusted.

(For RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Challenge: fast & lane)

Posted on May 30, 2019May 28, 2019Categories aging, dreams, life, poetry, writingTags cars, dreams, fast, haiku, lane, life, Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge18 Comments on Junkyard
Emboldened

Emboldened

Subtlety unknown,
Spring’s repertoire bold and bright –
soul responds in kind.

Posted on May 28, 2019May 26, 2019Categories creativity, nature, passion, photography, poetry, writingTags colour, flowers, haiku, spirit, Spring, tulips11 Comments on Emboldened
Beholder

Beholder

Beholder haiku

(Inspired by Ragtag Community’s prompt: sumptuous, and Fandango’s: common)

Posted on May 27, 2019May 27, 2019Categories art, creativity, photography, poetry, writingTags common, FOWC, haiku, perspective, RDP, sumptuous7 Comments on Beholder
Late Afternoon Sun

Late Afternoon Sun

Fragmented dazzle
alters scene – serene moment
rendered tenuous.

(Haiku written for RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Challenge: serene/scene.  Also inspired by the prompts of Ragtag Community: dazzle, and Fandango: tenuous. Image from personal collection.))

 

Posted on April 8, 2019Categories creativity, photography, poetry, writingTags dazzle, FOWC, haiku, poetry, RDP, Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge, scene, serene, tenuous7 Comments on Late Afternoon Sun
Lack a Fool Makes

Lack a Fool Makes

Anchored, no money –
lack has a way of turning
dreams into fool’s gold.

(Dug up this haiku from August 2015 for today’s prompts: Ragtag Community and Fandango both choosing ‘fool’. Image from personal collection.)

Posted on April 1, 2019Categories creativity, life, poetry, writingTags fool, FOWC, haiku, lack, money, RDP3 Comments on Lack a Fool Makes
Watching

Watching

Beneath mossy beards
weathered faces watch, listen –
silent witnesses.

 

Posted on March 26, 2019Categories creativity, nature, poetry, writingTags environment, haiku, nature, poem, trees19 Comments on Watching
Calm

Calm

Mirrored, the silence
echoes through my soul – invites
a deep soothing calm.

(It’s open link night at the dVerse pub, hosted by Kim.  Thought I’d drop by with a bit of a calm.  Image from personal collection.)

Posted on March 21, 2019Categories creativity, poetry, writingTags #dverse poets, calm, haiku, poem33 Comments on Calm
Test of Character

Test of Character

The knight’s bravado
is all well and good, until
the dragon wakens.

(A haiku for Willow Poetry’s What Do You See? challenge – the featured photograph.)

Posted on March 13, 2019March 13, 2019Categories adversity, life, poetry, writingTags character, dragon, haiku, knight, poetry, prompt, What Do You See43 Comments on Test of Character
Nonchalant

Nonchalant

Duck’s disposition
I admire – to glide, sail
through rainy weather.

(For Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku challenge:  swim & float.  Image from personal collection.)

Posted on March 10, 2019March 8, 2019Categories blogging, change, creativity, poetry, writingTags ducks, float, haiku, nonchalance, poem, Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge, swim14 Comments on Nonchalant

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