Poem of the day!!

brad2 wrote:I see I see...

Quite a bg one....

Peg

They are as big as my spread hand here. Quite fabulous.

I feel a haiga coming on.... ;)

Swallowtails appear

With the Springs invitation

Stay through fall then gone.

Lovely...need a picture to go with it then it is a haiga.



I have never seen a butterfly that large. Can you take a phicture sometime with something for comparison in size?

I love butterflies but I am panic stricken if a moth appears. I honestly get hysterical. I don't know why.

Funny story re this during the war but it is too long....

Peg

brad2 wrote:Lovely...need a picture to go with it then it is a haiga.



I have never seen a butterfly that large. Can you take a phicture sometime with something for comparison in size?

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Will Flycatcher do?

Great Crested quite commonly.

Eat Spring Swallowtails. :mrgreen:

brad2 wrote: I love butterflies but I am panic stricken if a moth appears. I honestly get hysterical. I don't know why.

Actually it can be really hard to tell the difference. Many which look like one are the other. Butterflies rest with wings together and Moths with them flat.

:applaud: Eve that is a fabulous photo. What a catch for the bird as well as the camera..

Yes I know the way moths rest but it's when they take flight that I go bonkers. I have tried to trace the feeling back but cannot tie it in with any event in childhood. It's just an ominous and immediate reaction.

Peg

brad2 wrote:
Yes I know the way moths rest but it's when they take flight that I go bonkers. I have tried to trace the feeling back but cannot tie it in with any event in childhood. It's just an ominous and immediate reaction.

Peg

Inspector Clouseau

Called them "merths" instead of "moths"

A Shot in the Dark

Thanks gaginmark, but it's all pre Peter Sellers time.

I did not stir when the enemy planes appeared.. just stayed in my warm bed, but the moth sent me shrieking downtairs minus slippers and gas mask and flashlight...!!! It would be hilarious except for the horrendous heartpounding.

It must have been from a former life....but when?????

Peg

Back on topic Eve.

Haiku 1

So hot burns the summer sun
Yet cooler than fierce passion
In my heart.

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Haiku 2

Words crackle in winter's air
They will not melt
You have wandered away

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Peg

brad2 wrote:Back on topic Eve.

Fabulous! :applaud: :applaud:



Spring at Jdorama.

Poems are shared freely

Like blossoms falling.

Haiku top of my head.. Scenes from 'PRIDE'


Halu strikes the ice
Which melts with joy
But closes once more.
He glides on.


Halu in his car, so fierce.
Lollipops soften his sharp
Two edged tongue.

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Eve ..Did you see Kimura in "PRIDE" ? Satisfying.

Peg

Eve,

As I read your haiku
I watch Plum Blossoms falling.
Trees shed their gems

Peg

Adored the Pride Haikus! :applaud:



No time now have I,

The Spring Combined Meet begins! :woot:

Later I will Haiku.





With you. ;)

i do not understand
the format of a haiku
which is varied here.

Wynchan?
Seriously?

All I learned is that there should be seventeen syllables but the arrangement is loose as the writer wishes.

on the other hand waka is definitely
Five
Seven
Five
Seven
Seven
which should add up to 31 syllables.

the waka form is really interesting and gives the writer more leeway in describing his thoughts and you can give a more detailed meaning. It was used in courts between Emperor and Empress and they could say things in a sort of code which the bearer of the letter could not understand.
Those were the days when cell phones did not exist so communication was a written exercise. Much more personal I think but time consuming. Would not work in this twitterish age.
Even in the early twentieth century it was not unusual for husbands and wives or lovers to write many bon mots to one another during a day.

I received poems from my true love but not every day. It's rather nice.

Peg

Wynter wrote:i do not understand
the format of a haiku
which is varied here.

Missed post when abroad.

Wiki can always clear all

Like winters crisp sky.

Eve wrote:

Haiku is also about counting the syllables to a certain extent which can not be translated totally into English. But the usual formula is 17 syllables usually cut up in 3 lines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku

A seasonal word is used but the topic does not have to be about the seasons from what I gather.

So in other words we can hoof it when we wanna. :mrgreen:

But I stick to 5,7,5 since I learned it at school. :beaten:

First time in this thread
Your poems blow me away
Please don't stop posting! :applaud:

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Peg, your Pride haikus
Showed us Halu's heart
I was born to love them, babe :muack:

Eve wrote:But I stick to 5,7,5 since I learned it at school. :beaten:

Yes, this is the formula that I know, but when I was reading the thread, people were using other formulas, so I got confused.

Peg's post cleared the confusion up tho! :woot:

Ender's Girl wrote:First time in this thread
Your poems blow me away
Please don't stop posting! :applaud:

Very nice Ender's Girl

I can't wait to read more from

up hill and down dale

Ender's Girl wrote:First time in this thread
Your poems blow me away
Please don't stop posting! :applaud:

Fine to see your post!

More Haikus are welcome here

Whether spring or fall.

gaijinmark wrote:

Very nice Ender's Girl

I can't wait to read more from

up hill and down dale

Your cleverness Mark,

Travels thru thread after thread

Inside trunk or mitten! ;)

gaijinmark wrote:

Very nice Ender's Girl

I can't wait to read more from

up hill and down dale

Does your change in location
Mean that you have found
Your Papa Burger at last? :mrgreen:

(Okay, so I cheated and went 7-5-7. :sweat:)

Eve wrote:

Fine to see your post!

More Haikus are welcome here

Whether spring or fall.

Where I am from, though
It is summer all year round
Still, we pray for rain
:hot:

E.G.

Sunshine in my heart

Showers of haiku

Refresh the thoughts that bloom.




Peg :dancing: