Like a pebble - tanka

Autumn drops a leaf

on sky-coloured still water

gold seeps into blue

blue seeps into me. I am

cloudless, skyless, limitless

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Written for the Carpe Diem prompt - Like a Pebble

There is Buddha

in the still space

between each thought

the Buddha waits

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For Carpe Diem's Santoka Taneda's 'There is Buddha' prompt

in the ceaseless sound
of the water
there is Buddha

© Santoka Taneda

Secrets of life - haiku

despair chews
at the edges of my mind
wanted : angel

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a lone dewdrop
scintillating with sunlight
rapturous me

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people come and go
with various kinds of baggage
railway station life

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stream of visitors
some tarry, some don’t
life is an inn

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if life had wings
broken and bent they would be
but soaring still

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drowned in the din
of humdrum daily life
soul waits

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so many secrets
mined deep from earth-life
precious I hope

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Carpe Diem prompt - Secrets of life

Conversation - haiku

you look at me
a poem in your glance
shining silence

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lamp and light
eternal conversation
darkness flees

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the widow listens
sitting on empty bed
feeling him in her bones

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rain and earth
in conversational embrace
seedlings sprout

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Carpe Diem prompt - Conversation

Morning celebration

the sun burns up
the remnants of the night
in unbridled glee

the curtain of sleep
parts in languid slow motion
lets in aliveness

senses awaken
in sweet celebration of
this thing called life

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Carpe Diem prompt - Morning celebration

The day begins

breaking through the shell
of night, dawn peeps, tremulous
at prisoner me

trying to break free
from a self-built prison
yet another day

as sleep fades like mist
and I wake yet again
into illusion

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Carpe Diem prompt - The day begins

dusk in rain - haiku

alone we come
alone we fade like autumn rain
into the dusk

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Cool of the wind - haiku

burning summer day
it must be a savior wind
that brought the coolness

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was it the cool breeze
that made your skin tingle, girl
or was it my gaze?

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