Originally posted on Tournesol dans un Jardin: ? Today, I was disappointed to see some tasteless articles and video clips on Aretha’s past. And I’m not talking about singing. I was upset that some people ( not only the media) like to find sad or bad things that happened in her life. So I looked…

Originally posted on Ontheland: : https://youtu.be/IC9hh-3zlQY : The Basho haiku for this Carpe Diem Renga challenge are translated by Robert Hass. The two-line responses in italics are mine. A true exchange of stanzas would be done in real time. This challenge is an opportunity to appreciate the haiku of a master and to practice writing…

Originally posted on Martha Magenta: ? dawn slips through the city on the river a chiffchaff brings the news of spring ? ? shadows move through stones in shards of moonlight the jagged edges of truth between us ? ? last relative – my roots disappear one by one riverside stones shift beneath my feet…

Originally posted on Stella Pierides: quiet hour the gaze drifts inwards

Originally posted on rivrvlogr: mighty winds howling spreading flames and destruction many lives silenced Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #46: Fire Image source: Associated Press

Originally posted on method two madness: Were I Other. Were I spoken in a different voice.  Were I fallen into impossibility. I would be like stars. I would echo the feeling that follows the wind. Were I made of light. Were I pulsing like oceans.  Were I to open as wide as never and nothing.…