Sweet satiation
Delectable drowsy sleep
Post pollination
Tired Pitcher Plant blossom
Bows its heavy languid head
Category Archives: Tanka
Monuments
Perched atop tree roots
People are oblivious
Thoughts lost in silence
A natural monument
Muted witness to this day
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #78: Monuments and
the Weekly Photo Challenge: Atop and Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Carpe Diem Namasté The Spiritual Way #5 self consciousness
Intertwined
First rays of sunshine
Rousing lovers from sleep
Limbs intertwined
Morning full of promise
New blossoms to open
In response to Patrick Jennings A Pic and a Word Challenge #69: Intertwined and
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Carpe Diem #1108 Promise
Crows
Crow cacophony
Spiraling above the trees
Plotting a murder
Beaks stripping sinew and flesh
Leaving thought and memory
In response to CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI: Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #23 crows
Fade to Blue
Glittering sun beams
Glissade across stained glass panes
Mercurial mood
Shifting bright candy colors
Until daylight fades to blue
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #64: Windows and CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI: Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #22 Teika’s 8th Tanka Writing Technique – Novel Treatment (prompt: blues)
Lightening Strike
Deep in the grey gloam
A single flash of lightening
Creation begins
Purifying rain tumbles
Comforting my depression
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a word Challenge #63: Grey and
CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI: Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #18 depression
Tears
Tears flow down my cheeks
Long after the rain has stopped
Puddle at my feet
Your soothing palm on my back
I am no longer alone
In response to CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI: Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #10 Teika’s 4th Tanka Writing Technique – convicting feeling (abandoned beach)
First Frost
Cotton boll snow storm
Frosts southern field and furrow
Shimmering solstice
Song of ancestors sorrow
Blowing on the wind of change
In response to CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI: Carpe Diem Universal Jane #6 first frost
Liquid Moon
Rhythm of the moon
Reflected on a high tide
Warmth floods my body
I lift my hands to my face
Lover’s lingering perfume
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #60: Moon
Orion
Southern migration
Autumn’s cold front conveyance
Bird’s night Hejira
Orion and Sirius
Give chase at morning’s first light
In response to CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI: Carpe Diem Special #220 Orion, a haibun by Dolores Fegan our featured haiku poetess
