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Carpe Diem #1140 arriving at the right moment sun angles instincts stir within  migration thoughts feathers preened and gullets full one takes flight into the blue warming breeze beneath their wings gives rise yearnings for homeland far brings focus to the flight there below the call is heard and passed along each glides to rest arrive with the sun's last rays it is just the perfect time ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #1139 listening a cry at the river's edge only the dove hears ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI Listening to others has always been important to me.  It has been easy to ask a couple of questions and folks will talk.  A sense of ease and for the most part a lack of judgement were sure fire soil for a 'talking garden'.  A place where privacy was respected, joys and sorrows shared.  The aging process is making it more difficult for me to hear not to mention listen.  After a few years of working next to a refrigerator sized CPU I am left with tinnitus.  With aging ears if there is any other sound in the room, forget it.  I will not be able to understand most words.  The world needs listeners at times even more than answers.  Just knowing your voice has been heard . . . somehow that is enough to heal.

Carpe Diem #1138 hospitality The organized church to which I belong has been for several years pursuing the idea of 'radical hospitality'.  An objective to go outside the wall and be neighbors.  As a result there have developed blitz weekends where work is done in one's own community.  Our church on the first weekend blitz built 20 or so ramps at homes for persons with handicaps.  Packages of food and lap blankets were given to the folks.  Elderly persons homes had yard work done along with window washing and of course more cookies.  There were free oil change and haircut and other things to help those in need.  That was 9 years ago and the work continues across the US with the blitzes.  The work has developed mini blitzes throughout the year. The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, who...

Carpe Diem #1137 The Bridge "The Honorable Passage", or Orbigo Bridge ancient spans of stone reached across flowing waters joining hands and lands reshaped into walls of fear souls of all divided ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #1136 Imagine this ... spring rains the smells of the earth plowed fields  the valley perfumes rising from below ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #1135 that moment ... In a Jeep bouncing along the rough road of the Snake River Valley reading geological history of the area was that moment. earthquakes  eruptions announce awareness embrace a rock to touch the face of creation ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #1134 beyond control Sounds simple.  Let go.  Just. Let. Go.  The song from the hit movie, Frozen , has filled the minds and voices of little girls that I meet.  My great niece was barely making complete sentences when she could sing and act out the scene from the movie.  'Let it go!' would be followed by a foot stomp.  Too cute! chains binding the dreams of generations held together by my own hands ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem honors  Jane Reichhold (1937-2017) G.)  whisper of rain sleeping in arms of roots a fawn blinking brown eyes answer the whispering rain ©    petra domin a Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #1133 walking the Road pilgrims beneath the streams of light walking the road inspirations appear above, below, all around ©    petra domina The Road to Santiago Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem honors Jane Reichhold  (1937-2017) F.)  Sierra Mountains (tanka) the dreamer never dreaming to live a dream leaving everyone else behind in the future long meadow is too short to hold the emptiness of leaving a family longing for their faces high in the mountains suspended over the valley even spirits smoothing the paths toe to heel, toe to heel ocean breezes a coolness blowing inland my message meets hers mid-air the tie that binds © Jane Reichhold (taken from: She Alone) winding road crawling higher into the forest reaching above the treetops to touch the clouds ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #1132 ‘The wrong answer will indicate the right one.’ (Petrus) I live in the USA.  Donald Trump was inaugurated as our president on Friday.  Saturday I walked with 40 to 50 thousand other people in downtown Austin, TX, in one of hundreds of Womans Marches around the world.  If you want to know my reasons you can read here.   The last few days have been filled with freezes and shutdown of government websites, regulations and agencies.  It is unsettling to say the least.  What is the right and wrong answer?  I do not know cause I am wondering what the real question should be? at the edge a fear filled pause before the plunge a chilling moment as water engulfs the diver ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem honors Jane Reichhold  (1937-2017)  E.) Fuji No Yama A few of our departed mentor's works: morning breeze coming in the window surf sounds  changing forms all around the Buddha clouds in a blue sky clouds flooding the river with spring spring cloud melt flooding river willows green leaves © Jane Reichhold (A Dictionary of Haiku, spring part) aqua waters springing from the glacier warming in the sun ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI ©    petra domina

Carpe Diem #1131 meditation back issues arthritic joints visualize rose petals absorbing the thorns of pain thorns blown into the air become butterflies released from cocoons butterflies moving across the sky painting rainbows of love in the blue ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem honors Jane Reichhold (1937-2017) D. a rainbow bridge river waters tumble over the fall's edge chasing rainbows ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #1130 Intuition our universe capillary attraction linking all ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem honors Jane Reichhold (1937-2017) C.) bubbles in ice motionless air released from the icy grip of the north sea floating south toward the stifling heat ©    petra domina Nothing I will write will ever compare to these beauties! bubbles in ice holding till spring the voice of the brook the mountain brook still with listening winter winds © Jane Reichhold surreal bubbles holding the voice of the stream © Chèvrefeuille Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #1128 Imagine the Road to Santiago Somewhere along the Road to Santiago raindrops hit poncho boots heavy with mud   slow the pace clouds spill into the valley cleansing mountain air ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #1129 friendship This week friends from Missouri came to have lunch and a visit with us.  It was pleasant to hear the sweet voices tell stories of the familiar names of our shared lives.  To hear of grandchildren and to tell of grandchildren.  To be with each other in the nourishing atmosphere of love. sapling roots surrounded by soil flourish strengthened by rain tested by storms .. remains ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem honors Jane Reichhold (1937-2017) B.) musical chord (tanka) like chords of music the words of her pen stroke our souls inspiring our voices to blend in vision-filled songs windswept cliffs weathering another storm icy salt waters grinding the stone face into next summer's warm sands water-colored words filling the void with silence giving balm to hearts yet to be born a queen not forgotten bejeweled with compositions by her disciples  ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem honors Jane Reichhold (1937-2016) A.) already red Today, January 18th, is Jane's birthday.  The host of CDHK honors her with a few of her wonderful winter haiku:  swollen the amaryllis bud already red melted snow water trickling over the veins of a dried beech leaf moving around the wind in the pines comes home © Jane Reichhold To be a writer of honest haiku it seems a person needs to be one with nature.  To feel the cold waters of the melting snow.  To be the dried beech leaf lying on the forest floor.  To be the wind searching for home.   swelling from within as the bud grows at stems end new life unfolds ©    petra domina source:  Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, Chèvrefeuille Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #1127 penitence Anger filled most of the corners of the person she had become.  The anger spilled out into the worst of explosions for anyone that might get in the way.  No one was immune to the angry outbursts.  Eventually through years of work, therapy and proper medications the anger was placed in proper perspective.  Finally the better qualities could grow and develop.  But late at night the image of all the people left scorched by that misdirected anger still haunts her mind. without regard tiger claws lashing cornered and confused tranquilizer dart subdues tabby preens her human ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #1125 The Road to Santiago is part of the Tarot. basket of faith woven of different beliefs becomes one intersecting in a deck of cards stacked against a win ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #1126 depend on yourself Stop to ask directions in a small community and one will invariably get excellent directions.  Though they might include reference to where the old something or other once was.  Or left at Joe Smith's house.  The modern GPS can be just a useless at times leaving one to wander looking for signs... poles, sun and stars geese, elephants and salmon nature points the way ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI