bits and bytes extend
gifts and thoughts to friends afar
hands through wires reach
Written for Carpe Diem, #320
Prompt: Embrace
Category: prompted
Written with a prompt
Tan Renga #4
life from the sea
shipwrecked on the sand
so many shells
~ Cathy Tenzo
beach ranging children transform
these wrecks into ships for dreams
~ Off the Tippet
Written for Carpe Diem’s Tan Renga Challenge, #18
Prompt: Cathy Tenzo’s Life from the Sea
Haiku #131 & #132
a zone of safety
keeping the world at bay
protection from life
echoes of the past
resound into the present
a dream of the sea
Written for Carpe Diem, #319
Prompt: Shell
Haiku #121, #122, #123, #124
estranged from the group
but waiting for acceptance
the other is us
walls, language, culture
are walls that keep us apart
anxious potted plants
the foot and the hand
refuse to work together
paralyzed body
approaching stranger
harbinger of danger or
foretaste of friendship?
Tan Renga #3
Palette of colours
Chrysanthemums bestowing
fragrance everywhere (Atreyee)
color and scent waft across
the years linking memories (Off the Tippet)
Written for Carpe Diem’s Tan Renga Challenge #17
Prompt: Altreyee’s Palette of Colours
Haiku #109
small desert cactus
stretches into the dry air
of the modern home
Written for Carpe Diem, Special #60
Prompt: Garry Gay’s “River Stones”
Haiku #108
wizened hands, white hair
they know “this too shall pass”
rest after labor
Written for A Haiku A Day
Prompt: Serene
