ephemeral

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© Omar Khayyam (Tr. FitzGerald) from The Rubaiyat

Two haiku for Carpe Diem’s Rubaiyat, Another Way:

triumphs fade
caught by my mitten
a snowflake melts

~

ice cream cone
every lick a pleasure
so fleeting

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©2017 Ontheland

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My name is Janice.  I started blogging as Ontheland when I moved from Toronto to a rural area near Kingston, Ontario in Canada.  Over time I have found myself writing poetry, mostly in Japanese forms, such as haiku and haibun.  One of my deepest interests is the natural world: the joy of it and how we can look after it better.

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    1. Thank you. I was slightly concerned that the ice cream theme would seem frivolous but as a child getting one was a major event and an early experience of impermanence…

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