Thought Prints

carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #19 Teika's 7th Tanka Writing Technique "clever treatment" (prompt: fragile beauty) wind blasts through the fallen leaves once more raked into perfect piles now crowned with curls of smoke ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #18 depression sinking beneath the covers your love grasps my heart and pulls me from the darkness ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #17 loneliness reading  the same line  again and again in disbelief tears flow ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off - find the silence breathing switches turned off . . . silence as peace  fills the room ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #16 Teika's Sixth Tanka Writing Technique "visual description" (prompt: waterfall) amid the roar the rusty barge sits in silence reflecting as ancient waters caress the crest of the falls ©    petra domina Niaigra Falls, Canada, 2005 Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #15 bush clover bush clover stretches its petals to kiss  the waiting warmth of her lovers lips ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Special Japanese Poetry In The Lowlands #3 Ria Giskes "six swans" (tanka) six swans in the middle of a carpet feathers - around the barber chair my white tufts of hair © Ria Giske (Tr. Chèvrefeuille) preening at the river's edge swan dancers moving to the rhythm  of the final score ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Universal Jane #7 Basho (the translations) shivering last of the garden roses covered in frost stroking her back beneath the moon ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #14 storm stormy sounds filter through the floorboards above knowing smiles exchanged between dinner guests ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #11 fireplace fiery roar as the wood is consumed in sparks of passion hearth is warmed as the last embers glow ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #10 Teika's 4th Tanka Writing Technique - convicting feeling (abandoned beach) like a silken strand floating on the autumn breeze in total freedom suddenly ensnared by hate she is free to float no more ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Universal Jane #6 first frost a blade of grass wears a coat white yesterday's dewdrop transformed by your heartless touch burning love turned to ice ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #8 dragonfly dragonfly, how do dragons fly? with invisible wings fueled by a heart of love and a belly filled with fire ©    petra domina Here are some tanka from the real poets: shamanic journey a red dragonfly comes to guide the canoe ancient wisdom unfolds becoming one with the dragonfly © Jane Reichhold & Chèvrefeuille glittering blue above empty riverbed wings of dragonfly through the mist, the croaking of frogs; soon the riverbed will be full again © Ese & Chèvrefeuille dragonfly dances above the old pond of Basho - the sound of water wings reflecting sunlight on young green leaves © Chèvrefeuille Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Special Japanese Poetry In The Lowlands #2 Jurgen Diepstraten an orchard filled with fruits of fall feast of blackbirds ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #7 Teika's third Tanka Writing Technique "Elegant beauty" with measured flow moving to the rhythm beneath the silk an elegant story unfolds mmm beautiful hands and feet ©    petra domina hanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem "Make The Haiku Complete" (100) encore, just for fun. "dancing in the moonlight" fireflies dancing in the moonlight sky write a message ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #6 chestnuts Upon reading the prompt for this post my mind went to the opening lines from  Longfellow's work,  The Village Blacksmith : "Under a spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands;"   The poetry describes a strong, hard working man with sons and daughters.  A simple man that none the less teaches by the way he lives to those who would see.  Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,   For the lesson thou hast taught! Thus at the flaming forge of life   Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped   Each burning deed and thought! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  outstretched arms extending from your body muscles rippling aching for that lustiness under the chestnut tree ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #5 low sunlight silloutted against the evening sky a single pillar casts its long shadow across the waiting valley  ©    petra domina in the low sunlight longing eyes softly touching from across the room heartbeats hastening old lovers' tryst ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #4 Teika's 2nd Tanka Writing Technique "Appropriate statement" - prompt: bare branches following the light reindeer seek the warmth of sun travel as one across the frozen tundra bare branch forest on the move ©    petra domina Moving with the reindeer in the winter. © Jan Helmer Olsen Karasjok from Jan Helmer Olsen on Vimeo . Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #4 Teika's 2nd Tanka Writing Technique "Appropriate statement" - prompt: bare branches scampering along the bare branches with a tail raised gathers acorns in his jaws fills a hole with his seed ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #3 rain the parched earth longs for the sound of thunder storm clouds gather throbbing with desire moisture enters Mother Earth ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Universal Jane #5 autumn scenes leaf covered the stone walkway greets with a crunch childhood memories wash across your feet with each step ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #2 Mist muffled sounds filtering through  the morning mist a golden willow weeps ©    petra domina ©  petra domina 2016 Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Special Japanese Poetry In The Lowlands #1 Jeanine Hoedemakers' haiga Pair of Snails (photo and haiku © Jeanine Hoedemakers) hij geeft haar een zoen nog een, bedelt ze lachend, in slowmotion © Jeanine Hoedemakers he gives her a kiss another one, she begs with a smile, in slowmotion © Jeanine Hoedmakers (Tr. Chèvrefeuille)                                     - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You know that feeling one gets as you see the beer glass tipping  toppling over with that last swallow of the nectar from the hops ... moving  with chains binding their feet circus elephants ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Special (2nd guest) Kala Ramesh's 5th "with all the stars" autumn rains marking the beginning of a river's life ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #1 Teika's first of Ten Tanka Writing Techniques "Mystery and Depth" movement beneath  the colored leaves shed from above new skin the color of leaves ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #1081 Feather pen (or Quill pen) quill scratching black words on parchment  birthing a notion ©    petra domina Martin Luther nails up his 95 theses on the cathedral door - the act that started the Reformation Original Illustration from Martin Luther by Gustav Freytag, published by The Open Court Publishing Company, 1897 quill scratching black words on parchment  birthing a nation ©    petra domina source:  http://www.vahistorical.org/ Declaration of Independance Committee quill dips in dark  waters circles faces emerge on crinkly parchment ©    petra domina source:  http://www.spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Master_Drawings_2003.html Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI