Carpe Diem Weekend-Meditation #19 Out Of The Box #2 Tau-ku
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the story of my youth
captured
in the grooves of a spinning disc
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tulip
Carpe Diem #1364 Tian Shan Mountains (Northern route)
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native tulips
growing in the mountain’s shadow
little treasure
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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.
desert
Carpe Diem #1363 Taklamakan Desert (the “Sea of Death”)(Northern route)
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footprints of camels
swept away by shifting sand
desolate desert
Gansu
Carpe Diem #1362 Gansu (Northern route)
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weary travelers
prayers lifting to heaven
past the Buddhas
Yugen
Carpe Diem Weekend-Meditation #18 Yugen, a new feature
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walking in the woods
wondering, whose path
do I follow
Tea Kettle
Carpe Diem #1359 The Tea Kettle
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curling slowly upward
steam from the ancient tea kettle
spirits dancing
Green Willow
Carpe Diem #1358 Green Willow
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fingers of soft wind
tangle through hanging branches
green willow
The Flute
Carpe Diem #1357 The Flute
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those gone before
remembered only as notes
from a bamboo flute
A Cherita
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #17 Out of The Carpe Diem Box …
A new form, for me, a Cherita using the theme Winter Time
Cherita (pronounced CHAIR-rita) is a linked poetry form of one-, two-, and three-line stanzas.
Cherita is the Malay word for “story” or “tale”.
Here’s my attempt
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Snow fell steadily overnight
Morning sun shines
On fields of white
Tracks cross from woods to road
Left behind by white tailed deer
Foraging for food
choir of angels
Carpe Diem Seven Days Before Christmas 2017 #5 a choir of angels
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wiggling children
voices lifted to heaven
choir of angels
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