Caring About Our World Reflecting About Life
a blue V
below ponderous clouds
when will gunfire end?
:
one hundred years
since the war to end all wars
a “long shadow”
:
©️2018 Ontheland
For Haikai Challenge #60 Armistice
Quoted reference to The Long Shadow: the Great War and the Twentieth Century, by David Reynolds, 2013 Simon & Schuster
My father left this world almost 30 years ago.
Strolling an autumn path inhaling its fragrance, hearing its rustle, I remember the hills near my childhood home.
in the Gatineau
time unwinds in autumn winds
hiking with father
~
©️2018 Ontheland
For Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, November 7th 2018 the voice of the wind
“Haibun” is a literary form originating in Japan traditionally composed of prose and haiku.
autumn trek
in meadow winds
droning in my ears
.
droning in my ears
entrains all that wanders
in fall’s flurry
.
in fall’s flurry
before the long rest
a clutch of geese
.
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loud bangs
a midnight gale
clearing the deck
:
wind lurks
whistling in the eaves
the world looks unchanged
:
mixed message—
sun illuminating
a wall of dense clouds
:
follow-up frenzy—
roadside rushes gyrate
in late autumn light
:
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Happy to be included today on Troutswirl’s A Sense of Place: Hiking Trail — smell:
winter hike
wrapped in a knitted scarf
the smell of wet wool
~
In ‘real’ time we are not wrapping wool scarves around our faces yet, but this is a sensation renewed for me almost every year…when the thermometer dips below freezing and the only way to seal out a winter wind is to wrap a scarf.
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autumn afternoon
sun at last below the clouds
wind gusts blew away
:
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Between sunrise and sunset we are down to 10 hours of daylight which will shrink to just under 9 hours by December 21st, the shortest day of the year (in the North).
Closing one eye
I am not winking
I am blinded by sunlight
Posing on one leg
I am not avian
I am practicing yoga
Singing the blues
I am not downhearted
I am indigo
Closing both eyes
I am not tired
I am listening
:
©️2018 Ontheland
The Monday afternoon dVerse challenge from WhimsyGizmo is to write a quadrille (44-word poem) using the word “wink”.
