For The Love Of Haiku 41

Gorgeous Glow

Photography + Psykopaint

An invitation
Gaze and embrace the beauty
Perfect contentment

by

Mark Armstrong

 

I call on all Haiku lovers out there to join us

and share with us your haiku ingenuity .

Let’s go guys and have fun 

For more details about this Haiku fun challenge click the logo above and join us!

***To those who  wish to share their Haiku with us but have no time to post them in their blogs …  By all means you can still join! Just simply write down your Haiku in the comment area and you are still in!  Piece of cake right?  

Okay Haiku Lovers

we want to hear from you!

Thank you to all Haiku Lovers who participated and contributed their finest and brilliant haiku.

Click- For The Love Of Haiku 1-40 and check them all out!

***

//

seek to improve

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For The Love Of Haiku 41

Gorgeous Glow

Photography + Psykopaint

Capture this moment
I glow to light-up your day
Manifestation

by:

 LoveBytesOnAir

 

I call on all Haiku lovers out there to join us

and share with us your haiku ingenuity .

Let’s go guys and have fun 

For more details about this Haiku fun challenge click the logo above and join us!

***To those who  wish to share their Haiku with us but have no time to post them in their blogs …  By all means you can still join! Just simply write down your Haiku in the comment area and you are still in!  Piece of cake right?  

Okay Haiku Lovers

we want to hear from you!

Thank you to all Haiku Lovers who participated and contributed their finest and brilliant haiku.

Click- For The Love Of Haiku 1-40 and check them all out!

***

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For The Love Of Haiku 41

Gorgeous Glow

Photography + Psykopaint

Cloudy gloomy day
A gorgeous glow smiled at me
She brightened my whole day
by
AshiAkira

I call on all Haiku lovers out there to join us

and share with us your haiku ingenuity .

Let’s go guys and have fun 

For more details about this Haiku fun challenge click the logo above and join us!

***To those who  wish to share their Haiku with us but have no time to post them in their blogs …  By all means you can still join! Just simply write down your Haiku in the comment area and you are still in!  Piece of cake right?  

Okay Haiku Lovers

we want to hear from you!

Thank you to all Haiku Lovers who participated and contributed their finest and brilliant haiku.

Click- For The Love Of Haiku 1-40 and check them all out!

***

//

seek to improve

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Smiling Thoughts… On Valentne’s Day

Smiling Thoughts

When I met you I tasted life

Like a bud, I blossom, I breathe

Never again would I strife

For your love and care are so deep

Smiling thoughts of you conquered me

In the morn when I make my coffee,

When I eat, or laugh you’re with me,

And everywhere it’s you I see,

Along the road, those lovely trees,

At my work with my Apple breeze,

These words I’m writing now, I grace

Because you put smile on my face

You’re the best part of my everyday

And at night when I lay down to sleep

Still there you are all over me

Smiling thoughts of you lingers great!

Happy Valentine’s Day To  Everyone!

 

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For The Love Of Haiku 20

I call on all Haiku lovers out there to join us

and share with us your haiku ingenuity .

Let’s go guys and have fun 

For more details about this Haiku fun click the logo above and join us!

***To those who do not wish to post their Haiku with the Art Game image in their blog but have brilliant Haiku for this week Haiku to share with us, by all means you can just write down your Haiku in the comment area and you are still in!  Piece of cake right?  

Okay Haiku Lovers

we want to hear from you!

Thank you to all Haiku Lovers who participated and contributed their finest and brilliant haiku in

FTLOH-19

*** // seek to improve

For The Love Of Haiku 18

The Smoking Squirrel

All of the sudden I’m not sure I’m writing haiku correctly so I am doing some research on it now but here is my go at the latest For the Love of Haiku…

Romance dominates

Mystery and fun for you

Oh boop boop a doop!

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For The Love Of Haiku 17

The Eclectic Eccentric

Girls can run the world!
No need for heroes… except
Just to scratch her… Puss?
(or ear. whatever.) ^^

恵

maybe it’s coz i’m in a naughty mood.. maybe it’s coz the photo prompt’s so darn confusing.lol ^^

haiku challenge and picture prompt here

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For The Love Of Haiku 17

For The Love Of Haiku 17

Underwater world
Everything is refreshing
A colorful place!

Tifannie King 

Click to see the making of our haiku image for this week 🙂

I call on all Haiku lovers out there to join us

and share with us your haiku ingenuity .

Let’s go guys and have fun 

 For more details about this Haiku fun click  the logo above

and join us!

***To those who do not wish to post their Haiku with the Art Game image in their blog but have brilliant Haiku for this week Haiku to share with us, by all means you can just write down your Haiku in the comment area and you are still in!  Piece of cake right?  

Okay Haiku Lovers

we want to hear from you!

For The Love Of Haiku 14 And I Voted 3 Haiku Lovers And To Break The Tie I Challenge Them To Write A Tanka Poem

For this week FTLOH-14, all participants have contributed their most unique and brilliant ideas in writing their haiku poem and I am truly thrilled for their enthusiasm for joining this haiku fun just because they love haiku and are happy to share with us their talents.  But since I do not get any votes from my readers so far, I decided to vote 3 haiku lovers who I felt they have given deep meaning with the given image for this week haiku 🙂 Even others may seem to think it’s a weird image to come up with a brilliant haiku.  Hahaha 🙂
These 3 haiku lovers also obtained the correct form of writing a haiku which is 5-7-5.  And to break the tie, I challenge the 3 to write their poem this time in a Tanka poem.

And the 3 Haiku Lovers I have voted are:

Esenga’ s Voice

says

:

we see what we want…
grumpy faces, danger, falls
or brave and warm hearts

 kz says:

The strong will survive
Something they don’t teach in school
Nature’s basic rule

恵

Mary Strong-Spaid says:

Underneath the web
illusions of power play
on thoughts imagined

World in confusion
Island with various creatures
Hungry shark, lost bear,
Godzilla, Super Heroes
All wanted to live in peace!

How to write a Tanka poem

The Tanka poem is very similar to haiku but Tanka poems have more syllables and it uses simile, metaphor and personification.

There are five lines in a Tanka poem.

Line one – 5 syllables	Beautiful mountains
Line two – 7 syllables	Rivers with cold, cold water.
Line three – 5 syllable	White cold snow on rocks
Line four – 7 syllables	Trees over the place with frost
Line five – 7 syllables	White sparkly snow everywhere.

Tanka poems are written about nature, seasons, love, sadness and other strong emotions. This form of poetry dates back almost 1200 years ago.

The Poetry Zone  has a good description of Haiku and Tanka poetry.

Note: For

 Esenga’ s Voice

 kz
 Mary Strong-Spaid

Please use the comment area to write your Tanka Poem… You could also choose to post it in your blog as you like. Or if you choose not to write a Tanka Poem… it is also up to you.

And to my readers who would like to vote their favorite haiku among the three above, please use the  comment area to express your thoughts, why you chose to vote one of them. Merci 🙂

For The Love Of Haiku 13 And Here Are The First 3 Entries…

Click to see the making of our haiku image for this week 

yepiratemanagua says:

under a desert sky

home for hearty wanderers

while fools play tennis

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touch a cactus

green-eyed dreams will pervade you

 then bang! Thor’s hammer hangover!

AshiAkira says:

Desert far away

How dry known only in dream

Wish to meet friends there

JohnCommunicates says:

What fool began this

Stand aside I wish to play

Mjolnir will sing

I call on all Haiku lovers out there to join us and share with us your haiku ingenuity .

Let’s go guys and have fun!

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I named my plant, “Oxima”

I checked to see all the posts I have published and for the record as of today I have already published 1,197 posts to be exact 🙂
But there are several posts which some of you may have missed to read, so I thought it would be nice to revisit them and share them with you…  and this post is one of them.   Enjoy 🙂

When I arrived here in Jeddah, 4 years ago, I bought some indoor plants and placed them in my flat.  I thought that it would be nice to have something fresh with me every day.

But unfortunately I do not have that what they called “green palms”, so that one by one they started to get dry and die.  Plus the weather here is really hot especially during summer season. You bet I always have my air-condition on.  And when I go for my holidays, there is no one who I could ask a favor to water them.  By then of course the room temperature would become too hot.  For sure the plants could be cooked. 🙂

I will be gone usually 3 weeks and sometime a month, so every time I get back from vacation, I would be crazy to water them and do the best I can to save them. But no matter what I do, they continued to wither.  I was disappointed so I just left them, I meant literally just let them to die.  I never watered them anymore.

One day I did a general cleaning in my flat so I’ve got to get rid of those things that are of no longer useful for me.

I was about to dispose the remaining plant left in my flat because most of its leaves were dried, I thought this plant won’t make it too.

But then when I saw a little bud of new leaf growing just beside its limb.  I was amazed!  I said, “Wow! Of all the plants this one made it. In spite of what I did, I don’t know how she did it but the thing was she survived!

This plant inspired me and thought me a lesson.  No matter what the circumstances may be, I should never ever give up, I must move on and passionately pursue my mission.

…And So I fixed it up and then I asked what name it would like to be called.

That night I dreamt of the word “OXIMA” so that’s where I get its name.

Are you familiar with “Lexigram”?  Because I lexigram the word OXIMA and I came up with this words from it:

Oxi/Oxy-root word of oxygen and oxygen is air and we need air to breath, to live, to have a life and become alive.

Ma- we called our mother in short Ma.  Plants are living things  and  so basically they are the natures arounds us, the beauty of the earth materials and the mother earth itself that are within us.

With these 2 words in my mind, I understand why this plant stayed with me.
I made this blog for this special plant named “Oxima” 🙂

Dieffenbachia (Dumb Cane) : one of the many “poisonous houseplants”.

I read this poem from one of my favorite books about Lexigrams.  I thought this would be awesome to share with all of my co-bloggers…  And perhaps you may find it interesting to lexigram a word, a name, a title or phrase too, which is really fun to do. 🙂

words divine, words sublime…  holy, holy words !
a picture is worth ten thousand words
so the Oriental sages say…  and therefore is the higher
nay, nay…  for shame !
for it takes words to tell…  even of that ancient claim
the hidden glory of every story
shines forth in words, words, words !
the miracle of the Easter gladness
overcoming death’s morbid sadness
is told in words, words, words !

words have wings, like birds
to fly through the sky of the mind

…  be ye aS wiSe aS a Serpent
yet aS harmleSS aS a dove…

words…  those mysterious scribbles on a page
holding the wisdom of every age
the experience and teaching of every sage

oh!  the beautiful rhyming of the proper timing
of words !

powerful words, that ring with truth
words that sing, forsooth  !
yes, words that ring and words that sing
words of spring and every good thing…  like kitties…

For The Love Of Haiku 9- Abandoned Garden….Who’s Gonna Top This Time? Your Vote Counts!

For The Love of Haiku 9- Abandoned Garden

Keep dreaming, don’t quit!
Everything is possible
and I love  donut 

Tiffanie King

yepiratemanagua says:

never let me go
she said in her dream to me
but it was too late

AshiAkira says:

Long left and forgotten
In sinful heart still waiting
For your warmth and light 

douryeh says:

Their names sail away
Their remembrance brings a smile
Under the moonlight

sarahpotterwrites says:

The latest health craze.
Slime-bathing removes wrinkles;
green is beautiful.

Lisa Summerlin says:

Nature and creatures
Both renewing my spirit
What’s up with that hand?

nightlake  says:

Murky water pulls me in
The cold hand of death beckoning
I take my last few breaths

Mark Armstrong says:

She bathed in a bog
And her big chocolate donut
Got licked by a frog
(yuck)

 

Brook says:

Heart outside chest now
Misunderstanding widget
Still looking upward

 

Click what each Haiku lovers “says” above to click LIKE on their haiku
and use the comment below to vote your favorite 🙂

Winner shall be announced by midnight Friday, November 9, 2012

For The Love Of Haiku 6- Congratulation Carol Of ABC Spirit Talk

For The Love Of Haiku – 6

Congratulation! 

carolynpageabc

for having the highest like of 30

in our 6th For The Love Of Haiku.

 She says:

Yes love, dinner’s here!

frogs legs, aliens, na,na

And a marinade!

(oh, gruesome!)

 

And we say:

adollyciousirony says:

With a bit of luck

Two ducks near the Love Tower 

Trapped inside the jar-

 

“Quack!”, quacks lovey duck.

-Froggy’s Jar of Lemon Dreams…

Here they fell in love!

 

silentlyheardonce says:

Prisoners of giants.

Captured inside a glass jar,

a  miniscule world.

grosenberg says:

Strange mixed guardians
Angel trapped in Eifel jar
What would freedom bring? 

Mark Armstrong says:

Prisoner in a jar
Flexing my big blue muscles
I lost my undies

(but I still look good)

Toothsome says:

“I thought raindrops fall?”,
quacks duck under umbrella.
Wondering who pissed?!?

(lol)

 

 sarahpotterwrites says:

Bitter angel trapped.
Tricked by slippery smiles,
power of ascent gone.

Brook says:

Point Zip Zoom Cling Slip
Blue love vapor still inside
Waiting for magic.

Everyone is welcome to join me in this fun just because you love what you are doing and you are happy to do it.

Every third Saturdays of the month I will post an image that I got from  my Art Game and then you write down your Haiku based on what you see on the image.

February 18, 2012 :FTLOH-1

March 17, 2012: FTLOH-2

April 21, 2012: FTLOH-3

May 19, 2012: FTLOH-4

June 23, 2012: FTLOH-5

Important notes to remember:

• The title of your post should always have – For the Love of Haiku
• Link your post to this page : For the Love of Haiku
• Check For the Love of Haiku post for additional rules or mechanics to follow.

***You can always check the result for the highest likes for each particular date here: Haiku Lovers

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For The Love Of Haiku-6- Who’s Gonna Top This Time?

For The Love Of Haiku – 6

 I say:

With a bit of luck

Two ducks near the Love Tower 

Trapped inside the jar-

 

“Quack!”, quacks lovey duck.

-Froggy’s Jar of Lemon Dreams…

Here they fell in love!

 And they say:

silentlyheardonce says:

Prisoners of giants.

Captured inside a glass jar,

a  miniscule world.

carolynpageabc says:

Yes love, dinner’s here!

frogs legs, aliens, na,na

And a marinade!

(oh, gruesome!)

grosenberg says:

Strange mixed guardians
Angel trapped in Eifel jar
What would freedom bring? 

Mark Armstrong says:

Prisoner in a jar
Flexing my big blue muscles
I lost my undies

(but I still look good)

Toothsome says:

“I thought raindrops fell?”,
quacks duck under umbrella.
Wondering who pissed?!?

(lol)

Is there anymore Haiku out there?
Serious, funny or any out of this world Haiku will do.
Base on the image given above.  It’s easy as long as you  have these lines 5-7-5.
Be Alive And Join Us With This Fun!

 For more info about this fun, click For The Love Of Haiku and share us your best Haiku 

Check out our previous For The Love Of Haiku:

February 18, 2012 :FTLOH-1

March 17, 2012: FTLOH-2

April 21, 2012: FTLOH-3

May 19, 2012: FTLOH-4

June 23, 2012: FTLOH-5