Written for Haiku Nuggets
with a lotus
in an old pond
plop plop
irreverent koi
seeks perfection
(c) gsk ’20
Haiga – March 28, 2020
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Haiga – Rain – April 26, 2015
another rain drop
the sea seems not to notice
unlike the desert
© G.s.k. ‘15
Linked to One Word Photo Challenge – Rain and Through the Eye of Bastet
Haiga Festival – One – Companions – March 1, 2015
companions
travelling free together
down life’s highway
© G.s.k. ‘15
This month at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, we will do a haiga a day! This is my first one for the prompt word – companions.
Haiku Shuukan – Perfection – February 6, 2015
cold winter morning
tea rose’s perfection
spider’s web
© G.s.k. ‘15
This week on Haiku Shuukan we begin a new spiritual journey, let me quote our host:
” … I have found a new “spiritual” series of prompts starting this week with “I have managed to reach perfection”.
This sentence is from the short novel “The Way of the Bow” by Paulo Coelho. In this novel he describes the spiritual path of the Bow, the Japanese art of archery. This sentence is said by a man who challenges Tetsuya, the most important character in this novel, to shoot the bow with him.”
I’m inclined to believe that perfection doesn’t exist … in the sense that something that cannot be improved, which of course is the meaning of perfection, doesn’t exist. But we can try to look for a relative perfection … always considering that in this world of constant change that perfection will be gone with a blink of the eye. So I’m looking at perfection as a relatively perfect moment.
I took th photograph of the above rose a week ago. It was really very nearly a perfect shot in the sense that the rose came out beautifully … of course the photo isn’t perfect because the background is not very pretty and to work around this I’d have to cut the rose out and superimpose it onto a better background. I decided that I would monochrome the photo and see what would happen – whilst I was looking at it in my editor, I noticed for the first time a tiny spiderweb among its leaves… an imperfection right? Well obviously not from the spider’s point of view! So I decided that that spiderweb would be my idea of perfection … a beautiful rose which also gives hospitality to a spider one cold winter morning.
Morning Haiku and Waka – October 28, 2014
power failure
stumbling in the morning dark
– a drop of water
in the early morn
darker than middle ages
no power – silence
gas heater dripping water
on a power strip at night
(c) G.s.k. ’14
I’m terribly late writing my posts this morning due to my water heater, as you may have understood reading the tanka (not one of my better ones, I know).
This morning I woke as usual at 5:00 (actually 4:00 as I haven’t changed my inner clock back to real-time yet) and the light beside my bed didn’t work. I stayed in bed a while longer thinking the problem might be a general black-out, not really that unusual … then I realized that outside my house, the street lights were on.
It became apparent that there was a short circuit somewhere in the house. We have different power breakers to isolate different parts of our house so, turning one off one at a time, we (in the meantime I woke hubby up) had narrowed the problem down to the heater and general lights (bathroom, stairs and kitchen were ok). Unplugging everything as well as unplugging the water pump of the gas heater, didn’t resolve our problem … the circuit breaker stayed off. Finally I went to my son’s bedroom, where I’d forgotten to unplug his computer, stereo etc which are connected to a power strip. Near his computer I heard a pluck – pluck – pluck … water was dripping onto the power strip. Pulling that plug we were finally able to restore the lights to the rest of the house.
My husband found the leak … fixed it and finally at 8:00 real-time … we were back in the 21st century, power and heating working properly. I hope to be able to write something more later today, but to be on the safe side, I’m linking these poems to OctPoWriMo. Have a great day folks!
Yesterday’s Post – September 30, 2014
September 28, 2014
Spider Webs and Things – Morning Haiku and Waka|Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
Silent Sunday| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
To Cecil the Pig – Memento Mori| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library (Poet’s Corner)
Wordless Haiku| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
30 Days of Haiga| Through the Eye of Bastet
Silent Sunday| Through the Eye of Bastet
September 29, 2014
Haiku for Ha| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
Wanderlust – Morning Haiku …| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
Tackle Tuesday| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
30 Days of Haiga! Through the Eye of Bastet
Sparkling Stars| Bastet’s Waka Library
Yeterday’s Posts – September 28, 2014
I’ve been out a lot walking in the woods around my town or at the lake… taking advantage of this great Indian Summer we’re having! We Usually leave around 8:30 in the morning and get home around 3:00 in the afternoon. Some of the photos I’ve taken have been used in the haiga and photo Challenges sponsored by Cee … hope you’re having a great Indian Summer and that you’ll have a wonderful Sunday … Ciao! Bastet …
September 25 …
Feather and Shadow Acrostic| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library (Poet’s Corner)
The Willow – Quatrain| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
30 Days of Haiga| Through the Eye of Bastet
30 Days of Haiga (2)| Through the Eye of Bastet
Haiku Heights – Space| Bastet’s Waka Library
September 26 …
Eos – Haiku| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
30 Days of Haiga| Through the Eye of Bastet
Cee’s Black and White Water Challenge| Through the Eye of Bastet
Little Creatures – Lizard| Bastet’s Waka Library
Apples (2)| Bastet’s Waka Library
Little Creatures (Haiku in 5-7-5)|Bastet’s Waka Library
September 27 …
Stavros of Minsk – Fornyrðislag| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library (Poet’s Corner)
Bastet’s Shadorma Photo Prompt|Mindlovesmisery’s Menagerie
30 Days of Haiga| Through the Eye of Bastet
Yesterday’s Posts – September 24, 2014
September 22, 2014
Shuukan – Violin| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
Sunday Whirl on Monday| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
30 Days of Haiga| Through the Eye of Bastet
September 23, 2014
Mindlovesmisery’s Wordle| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
30 Days of Haiga| Through the Eye of Bastet
St. Francis’ Words| Bastet’s Waka Library
Time Glass Challenge| Bastet’s Waka Library
Ghost Writer – Writing With Jen| Bastet’s Waka Library
Yesterday’s Posts – September 22, 2014
Well and now, this is a lot of stuff … the whole weekend posting! Hope you find something you like – Bastet.
(I rather liked this photo …. I think it’s lovely how it came out looking almost like an impressionistic painting|)
September 20, 1014
Bastet’s Shadorma (and acrostic) Photo Prompt|Mindlovesmisery’s Menagerie
Mindlovesmisery’s Menagerie| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
Tan Renga – Glittering Blue| Bastet’s Waka Library
Soliloquy No Renga – (catku)| Bastet’s Waka Library
Cutting Wood| Bastet’s Waka Library
30 Days of Haiga| Through the Eye of Bastet
September 21, 2014
… is your name Abraham| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
Morning Haiga (War) |Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
Duality – Choka| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
Wordless Haiku – Autumn Reflections| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
30 Days of Haiga| Through the Eye of Bastet
Silent Sunday| Through the Eye of Bastet
Silent Sunday| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
Writing with Sodo – Zen – There is Nothing| Bastet’s Waka Library
Yesterday’s Posts – September 20, 2014
September 18, 2014
A Thought from a Poem – Velado| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
30 Days of Haiga – September 18, 2104| Through the Eye of Bastet
Little Creatures – Ants (Haibun)| Bastet’s Waka Library
September 19, 2014
The Internecine War| Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library
30 Days of Haiga – September 19, 2014| Through the Eye of Bastet
Bastet and Sekhmet's Library 