Carpe Diem Weekend-Meditation #25 Use That Quote
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” […] Rabindranath Tagore.
~~
wisdom of butterflies
can not be learned
in a single moment
Advertisements
Category: haiku
spring is coming
Carpe Diem #1393 Spring Is Coming
~
back and forth
sparrows carry twigs
nest building
silence
Carpe Diem #1391 A Great Silence
——
a lover’s moon
slipping into the old pond
with a silent kiss
Mesopotamia
Carpe Diem #1372 Mesopotamia
–
ancient city
holding wisdom in its arms
Mesopotamia
morning glory
Carpe Diem Weekend-Meditation #20 Revise That Haiku
morning glory!
the well bucket-entangled,
I ask for water
© Chiyo-Ni
This weekend, Chevrefeuille, our host at Carpe Diem, has challenged us to revise this haiku by Chiyo-Ni
–
my dawn thirst
quenched by purple beauty
a morning glory
vinyl record
Carpe Diem Weekend-Meditation #19 Out Of The Box #2 Tau-ku
—
the story of my youth
captured
in the grooves of a spinning disc
tulip
Carpe Diem #1364 Tian Shan Mountains (Northern route)
—-
native tulips
growing in the mountain’s shadow
little treasure
——
I just finished reading Tulipomania by Mike Dash. This book gives the history of the cultivating, buying, and selling of tulips in the 16th and 17th centuries. The original tulip, that bears little resemblance to the varieties we know today, was discovered by the Turks in Central Asia.
