distorted men
create defective realities
and more distortions
until the sand blows freely
in the lonely emptiness
© G.s.k. ‘16
Carpe Diem Special #192 Remember This Music? – The Wall by Pink Floyd
distorted men
create defective realities
and more distortions
until the sand blows freely
in the lonely emptiness
© G.s.k. ‘16
Carpe Diem Special #192 Remember This Music? – The Wall by Pink Floyd
Freezing Thoughts
white winter rose
her frozen heart melting
withers
once warmed by the careless sun
who never understood her
winter rose
walking down the streets
under red lanterns
§§§
a frozen tap
improvised water-falls
in my basement
Taps looming
it’s that drunken old soldier
humming and weaving
§§§
just after dawn
laughing ducks slide on the pond
ice breaking event
© G.s.k. ‘16
TJ’s Household Haiku – Tap
Carpe Diem #893 Fuyusoubi (winter rose)
Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie – B&P Shadorma and Beyond
look as I might
I still can’t find it …
– a poet’s soul
that important find
exaltation for a day
then – a new hunt starts
destiny found
inside fortune cookies
– writing pidgin verse
lost and found offices
full of abandoned objects
their owners misplaced
they’re often never sought
people lack faith in mankind
stopped smoking
new harmony found
without nicotine
© G.s.k. ‘16
calendar poets
penning New Year platitudes
gotta eat – I know
but, is that a good reason
to waste all of those trees?
calendar pulchritude
with tepid affirmations
each season painted
in arrhythmic platitudes
[sad punitive devices]
but first …
swallow your pill
then write aquamarine lies
in cursive caps
oh my lands …
do they never tire
of cute dogs
and kittens
don’t forget yoga – om y’all!
fuzzy warm deceits
© G.s.k. ‘16
1.Punitive 2. Tepid 3. Calendar 4. Season 5. Sad 6. Arrhythmic (any disturbance in the rhythm of the heartbeat.) 7. Cursive 8. Tomorrow 9. Swallow 10. Aquamarine 11. Affirmation 12. Pulchritude (physical beauty; comeliness.)
Haiku
leaves on the ground
a dusty carpet of dreams
fallen
Senryu
kitten sneezes
sniffing the ground pepper mill
curiosity
Kyoka
first snow flakes
melting on the warm ground
winter yet to come
kept at bay by the sunshine
El Niño whispers – Holé
© G.s.k. ‘15
in his golden age
[as in frail senior years]
the city’s mayor
took steps to close down
the city’s discotheque
long forgotten
his lively fiery youth
his lustful ways
his quest for adventures
in envy – he betrayed youth
protests rang
among the citizens
petitions signed
marches marched and voices raised
but it was to no avail
the city split
between the young and old
[enter civil strife]
no solution to the crisis
seemed in the offing
then, the mayor’s wife
who never spoke – did that day
in favour of youth
and said it was just envy
that drove the senior mayor
unhealthy
and beyond all reason
the decision made
creating disharmony
among the population
a committee formed
to find a just solution
the mayor huffed
but collaborated
or he’d have lost his votes
the solution found
in the town hall that day
the order withdrawn
now there is a senior’s night
Fridays – at the old dance hall
© G.s.k. ‘15
THIS WEEK’S WORDS come from “Mayor Harold Washington” by Gwendolyn Brooks: mayor, beyond, steps, close, never, forgotten, begin, health, age, enter, senior, adventure
prolix verbiage
blah blah blahs in emptiness
flowered rhetoric
the talking heads talk and talk
as the nation sleeps – bored
watch TV debates
eating stale crisps and nachos
explosive boredom
blah blah blahs in emptiness
as the nation sleeps – bored
10 o’clock news
same news with new hype and spin
breathless comments
blah blah blahs in emptiness
as the nation sleeps – bored
social networks thrive
half-baked intellectuals
tweeting and buzzing
blah blah blahs in emptiness
as the nation sleeps – bored
prolix verbiage
words thrown across the waves
passing the time
blah blah blahs in emptiness
as the nation sleeps – bored
© G.s.k. ‘15
[I’m really tempted to call these haiga with tanka … tanga.]
This poem was inspired by a comment by Jules from Jules Longer Strands of Gems
abandoned
two lost soles waiting
on the door step.
§
teeter-tottering
midnight laughter in the park
the revellers
like wayward children playing
under moonshine fumes
§
waddling ducks
he pursues his lady-love
quaking with laughter
§
weaving in the night
those drunken tourists roamed
but made no cloth
© G.s.k. ‘15
This post was written for:
On The Trail With Basho Encore #11 drinking friends (humor)
and here is a delightful haiku by Basho:
sake nomi ni katara n kakaru taki no hana
drinking friends
to talk I’ll hang over like this
a waterfall of flowers
© Basho
and our host:
on the way home
drunken sailors bend over
to vomit
it’s a strange sight
like a waterfall they fall
drunken sailors
Ah! that sight
a waterfall of flowers
when vomiting
© Chèvrefeuille
beautiful smile
laughing at modernity
black teeth
women’s beauty
lotus feet and black teeth
white painted ladies
in the English court
our anorexic sixties
© G.s.k. ‘15
crimson flowers
dancing in the open fields
a summer dream
longing for something
not knowing where to look I lay
watching the clouds
seeing fluffy bunnies
thinking of Terry Pratchett*
© G.s.k. ‘15
*see video
Written for Heeding Haiku with HA
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life happens . . .
Noreen Crone-Findlay talks about the crafts she loves with her friend, Tottie Tomato. They'll be sharing tutorials, how to's and step by steps for spool knitting, crochet, doll making, small loom weaving, wood working, paper crafts and all manner of other fun crafts. This is a family friendly blog.
Random musings, observations and thoughts from inside a VW camper van.
Poetry. Art. Book Reviews.
a forum for the study of the materialism and ontology of finance
Written Thoughts are unlocked Treasures of the mind...
Welcome to the Feline World of Nera, Tabby and Fluffy
Observations and views from a different set of eyes
Advice on Writing, Publishing, and Book Promotion
An Artist's Eyes Never Rest
Poems
A Blog of Books and Literature
Misk Cooks
wāhine on the go
Micropoetry ~ Waka ~ Flash Fiction
Carpe Diem's Tanka Splendor is part of the Carpe Diem Haiku Family. It's a weekly tanka-meme in which you can write and share tanka inspired on a given prompt every Saturday (mostlty, sometimes it will be on another day).
Haiku inspired (mostly) by my walks in and around Eastbourne
Often rough and filled with switchbacks, the road this child of God is traveling Home.
Incomplete Thots...
About fantastical places and other stuff
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