A Single Leaf, an Impromptu verse

I have written an Impromptu verse ... I saw a single leaf dancing through the streets. It's was a very stormy day today so the last leaves are blown away by that strong wind. But this one single leaf touched me. And I wrote the following haiku on that event:


one single leaf
dances on the shoulder of the wind -
prima ballerina


Isn't it a wonderful little gem? This haiku feels just good and strong. What do you think about this one?


Namaste,

Valley Stream

Today I love to share a weblog on a haiku by Onitsura (1660-1738) a haiku poet which is the haiku master for this month of Carpe Diem. Today we had a wonderful haiku written by him:

tani-mizu ya ishi mo utayomu yama-zakura


the wild cherry:
stones also are singing their songs
in the valley stream


This haiku by Onitsura is meant to be as a source for inspiration. So I was inspired and wrote this haiku:

gurggling valley stream
brings joy to the heart of Mother Nature -
Il Silenzio

Credits: Valley Stream

Isn't it a beauty? And that page to which the caption refers .... well you have to visit that. It's really a wonderful website and a joy.

Well ... see you agian next time ...

Haiku Heights, Shimmer

Inspired by the theme at

It's a long time ago, February 1st, that I have posted here on my haiku-blog. I am to busy with my daily haiku meme Carpe Diem to write here on my first weblog about haiku. Today I ran into Haiku Heights the wonderful website on haiku writing hosted by Leo. This week's prompt is shimmer and I love to share the next haiku with you, my dear visitors:

shimmering bright
between colorful leaves
a pebble

Just a nice stil live I think, another one maybe:

crystal clear dewdrops
shimmering in the first sunlight -
a cobweb

Awesome! Isn't it? Sorry how immodest, but I really like these haiku. Looking forward to next week's prompt, breeze.

Namaste

Theme Thursday - Chocolate

Theme Thursday

Also shared with Haiku My Heart, february 1st


This weeks theme is 'chocolate' and I love to share a few haiku with you all on 'chocolate': So let's go do some haiku composing.

bar of chocolate
thrown away after just one bite -
food for the rats

'precious, sweet precious'
smeagol doesn't want the ring anymore
he found chocolate

Smeagol or Gollum

I loved writing these haiku for Theme Thursday.

Ugly Moon?

Have to share this with you all. When I cycled to my work last night I saw an egg-shaped moon hiding behind a veil of clouds and that brought me the next haiku:

egg-shaped moon
hides behind a veil of clouds -
does she feels ugly?

does she feels ugly?

our princess of the night
egg-shaped moon

Isn't it a strange scenery?

ON BARE FEET, a haibun (reprise)

On Bare Feet

I wrote the following haibun. (Prose and Poetry united).

On Bare Feet in the Snow

I love walking on bare feet. So I do that a lot. As I come home from work the first thing I do is pull off my shoes and socks. It feels good. The air around my feet that have been enclosed in shoes the whole day. Even outside I am walking on bare feet.

Today I realized that I was on bare feet when I walked outside in the snow to close the fence. It’s so common to me to walk on bare feet.
In Summer’s, when our dog was still alive, I walked him on bare feet. I love the contact with Mother Earth as I am walking on bare feet through the grass, the forest or where ever. It feels like I am a kid again. When I was a baby I laid in my pram with bare feet. In that time I was pure and didn’t know much of the world. I didn’t know about haibun and haiku or what form of poetry.
Now … years later I experience that same pureness and not knowing when I walk on bare feet. Love that. Once again I have to walk on bare feet through the snow to close the fence again. The mailman has not closed it. When I have closed the fence I open the mail. In one of them I see a wonderful Anton Pieck card, such a nostalgic card. A little boy, poorly dressed, walking on bare feet in the snow and throwing snowballs. He laughs and his face is healthy red by the cold and the joy of throwing snowballs.

on bare feet
a street urchin plays
in the snow

Haiku My Heart, Silk

Dear friends on Haiku My Heart,

Today on my daily haiku meme Carpe Diem we share haiku on 'silk'. I love to share here on Haiku My Heart one of my haiku written for today's episode of Carpe Diem.


arousing my senses
the sweet coolness of silk blankets
shared with my love


Mayby it's to sensual, but it was the first thing I thought about when I was preparing the episode on 'silk'.

Namaste,

Chèvrefeuille (a.k.a. Kristjaan Panneman)

Haiku My Heart

It's a long time ago that have posted a haiku for Haiku My Heart, but I have to share this haiku somewhere ....

close to my heart
memories of my joyful youth 
on a sacred place

on a sacred place
hands before my face
tears on her grave

 

Credits: Fresias

tears on her grave -
the sweet perfume of fresias
her beloved flower


her beloved flower
every anniversary of her death
a fresh bouquet



Isn't it a sweet, sweet scented flower? I can smell her perfume. Triggers memories of my grandmother.

Namaste


PS.: If you like writing haiku maybe Carpe Diem's Daily Haiku Meme is something for you.

Haiku Heights # death

Inspired by the theme at

A new week of haiku writing has gone with the wind ... several weeks ago I posted a post here for Haiku Heights. I haven't had time to participate in this weekly haiku meme for a few weeks mostly during lack of time and the time I spent on my own daily haiku meme Carpe Diem but I had to write a haiku for this weeks prompt 'death':

frost on the branches
the cobweb crystalizes in the sunlight
a death spider

a death spider
hanging in it's crystal cobweb
food for the birds

Haiku Heights #200, wish

Inspired by the theme at

I haven't had time to participate the last weeks in Haiku Heights, but this week's prompt I couldn't let go. This week the prompt is WISH and that's of course something for this time of year.


Dragon's departure
entering the year of the Snake -
good wishes

Year of the Snake (2013)

Some background:

Sign of the Snake

According to ancient Chinese wisdom, being born in the year of the Snake is a good omen; it means your family will never starve. Whether this is intended metaphorically -- because the snake is a great mediator and therefore good at business -- or literally -- because a Snake would sacrifice his many possessions to pay for food -- is often debated. In either case, it is clear that a Snake is considered a good provider as a result of his wisdom. This wisdom, however, can on occasion become cunning trickery, as a Snake is known to plot to get exactly what he wants. The Snake is also profoundly private, and as such, as known as a poor communicator -- possessive of both his words and his emotions.

Character Traits : Snake

Positive: Wise, creative, shrewd, responsible, purposefulNegative: Loner, distrustful, suffocating, cold

Well ... maybe 'till next week.