12/25 12:25 am 真夜中 冬 (winter midnight)
Still, black, cold, midnight. Distant stars cast no light. I Walk in winter dream.Filed under: Haiku Tagged: dreams, haiku, midnight, peace, winter
View ArticleFriday Fun –“2012”
Another video from my favorite guys, World Order. In 2012, everyone was going on and on about the Mayan calendar and the end of the world, or the current cycle of existence. A Japanese take on this,...
View ArticleWordless Wednesday: Home at last, Sean Duggan
Filed under: Devotionals, Musings Tagged: brother, celebration, funeral, lighting candles, love, peace, Sean Duggan
View ArticleThoughtful Thursday: You Hold the Key to Love and Fear
Oddly enough, the latest commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken brought to mind one of the songs that defined an age, a place, an event, a dream for love and peace: The Youngbloods – Get Together. I...
View Article初雪(はつゆき First Snow – haiku
midnight: snow flowers spiral down and quickly die on my outstretched hand.Filed under: Haiku Tagged: brevity of life, first snow, haiku, mono no aware, peace, poetry, snow, winter night
View ArticlePeace: Let it begin with someone else…
“Peace can become a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.” Wayne Dyer,Woman’s Day Magazine, Jun. 1, 2007 Peace….one of the aspects of Advent. In...
View ArticlePeace, Joy, Love….yes Virginia, they do exist
With all going on in the world today, it is so easy to lose hope, to forget there is more to life than bad news, mayhem, evil… But Love was born many years ago night in Bethlehem. I’m not here …...
View ArticleSepia Sunday – Two haiku
I. winter day: silent birds pecking seeds beneath bare forsythia bush. II. Oddly warm winter day. sepia drizzle tints silent yard and sky.Filed under: General Poetry, Haiku Tagged: birds, blogging,...
View Article冬の夜明けFuyu no yoake Winter Dawn
cold winter dawn from across the way floats the crow of a roosterFiled under: General Poetry, Haiku Tagged: haiku, peace, poetry, rooster crowing, winter, winter morning
View ArticleTwofer Tuesday: World Order
Two videos for today from my guys, World Order. Both have to do with how we today are out of synch with nature, each other…thoughts of getting back into sync, life, death, change….all metaphysical type...
View ArticleSunday Serenity
Filed under: Musings Tagged: Daily Post, peace, photography, serenity, sky, Sunday
View ArticledVerse Poetics – Black and White tanka
Today at dVerse, Grace is asking for poems about black and white. Submissions will be written to this prompt. Come and join the multitalented poetry crew. Read or submit your own idea of black and...
View ArticleSunday Morning 10:00 a.m.
Sunday Morning 10:00 a.m. (pray for peace) Fir trees on display – Christmas is coming! Mother with two little ones Walking in wonder in this temporary forest Smell of fir in the cold air Green rich...
View ArticlePeace is a Tomato
Today Bjorn is Pubtender and has poetics at dVerse. He wants us to “write about peace without making it trite, too sweet, or just against the horrors of wars. He wants us to capture how much pain and...
View ArticlePeace is Red
Today at Poets United, the Midweek Motif is “Colors”. How do colors affect you? What colors do you associate with seasons, foods, moods, actions? Come and find out the thoughts of others on Colors....
View ArticleChristmas Miracle – not a sobby story
This is being linked to Poets United Poetry Pantry http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2016/01/poetry-pantry-284.html grey drizzly day didn’t feel like Christmas – 77 degrees farenheit quiet – my...
View ArticleHaibun: Making Udon
Another entry for the prompt of travel/Adventure today at dVerse. Haibun: Making Udon “If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is to keep moving” Paul Kornfield A week later during...
View ArticleHaibun Monday #14 – Relax – 2
A second submission for dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday. The prompt is to write a haibun about how you relax. My first submission was about boketto. This is about shinrin-yoku (森林浴). Literally, Forest...
View ArticledVerse Poetics: Wishful Thinking
Today Mish is in charge of the prompt for Poetics today. She wants us to make wishes – on a star, blowing on the fluff of a dandelion, our wishes for humanity, the world, ourselves. It is a lovely...
View ArticleHaibun Monday: Butter Yellow Morning
I couldn’t resist this prompt from Grace. I am still on hiatus and doing fairly well. thank you!http://dversepoets.com/2016/10/03/haibun-monday-22-extraordinary-days/ Butter Yellow Morning It is...
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