Carpe Diem Haiku - Hot Springs

her beauty 

cleanses 

the water

Visual from an old 1904 Japanese postcard.

Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge, Suzanne's "reflecting the sky"

One particularly nice aspect of the Carpe Diem Haiku Kai website is the communal aspect - here with have one, with the Tan Renga, with one participant, one of the gang's haiku used as a Tan Renga with 2 more lines added. The haiku is by Suzanne, http://suzannemillerwritings.wordpress.com/, one of my favourite writers, with this blog's two lines added.

reflecting the sky

rainwater in a fallen leaf

-embodied light

the gardener rakes the grass

a thousand tiny mirrors 

http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.fi/

FF 100W Stories - The Ripples Felt

ON BOARD LOG: Mid-day, 11 March 2011

We sail towards Mt Fuji, the old Chinese wooden junk creaking at every turn and every caress of each wave. I have never known such peace and quiet. The water gently ripples against our hull, and we wait for the beautiful view, and the chance to renew our vows.

Not even a monsoon could stop us now. Yuko has been on deck painting Mt Fuji's beauty, and its calming spiritual strength and blessing seems to have
guided us well. If this were ever to be my last entry, I would like all to know it is one of the happiest,
most serene moments of our lives.

 



Postscriptum, the tsunami arrived at

14:46:23 JST (UTC+09:00) 11 March 2011

For Friday Fictioneers 100W stories, run so well by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields ¤ photo by Douglas MacIlroy