Haiku challenge: Forest & Whisper

I was about to post this on Monday morning when we lost the Internet. Posting now in a brief window of connectivity…

A tanka for Ronovan’s weekly challenge.

 

tree silence

is the forest’s breath

birdsong its call

we listen and learn our

voices no more than whispers

Haiku: Gratitude & Harmony

A senryu trio for Ronovan’s weekly challenge.

 

gratitude

is a virtue man

is sadly lacking

 

peaceful harmony

as difficult to find as

a world leader’s heart

 

hope

as illusory

as his promises

Haiku challenge: Zen & Chaos

A tanka for Ronovan’s weekly challenge.

 

parting the tangle

the discord of pointed noise

anger subsides sinks

root-swallowed where dead things go

peace falls feathered and petalled

Haiku sequence: Hope & dash

For Ronovan’s haiku challenge.

 

green hope springs

as we hurtle to the edge

a wolf howls

 

in the wind

the odour of decay

yet beetles dig deep

 

wolf-howl beetle-delve

two worlds on the cusp of night

and forgetting

 

Haiku challenge: Plucked & Played

Siting out the next round of cooking, letting some of the others deal with it.

Haiku for Ronovan’s weekly challenge.

wind plucks a tune

from blossom laden branches

plays the song of spring

Iberia

This painting, Iberic by Carmen Herrera is proposed by Ronovan as a springboard for a poem. I didn’t know her work, but these colours are quintessentially Spanish.

 

 

 

Iberia

arid as African desert

but the blood red clots

never quite dry

leaving black-stained memories

hammered like nails

into skulls

living and dead.

Tanka: Serene & Scene

A tanka for Ronovan’s weekly poetry challenge

 

sky-mirrored clouds float

on placid lake water

still as oil—heron

beneath the flooded willows

wades streams wild with spring