Carpe Diem Tanka Shrine

under one streetlight

one shining couple embrace

rain for confetti

old diner as a chapel

a lone saxophone plays blues

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/

dVerse - Seeding

"imagine your words as seeds"

Under the shade of a maple tree
I thought I saw a shade
Of me
When leaves were green

A memory

A younger version of innocent sin
Whose lips were kissed
Whose  love was lost
Whose love was found
Who was unafraid to take
Or be taken

A passion unkempt
A bud, a flower, pollen
Spent
In the arms of another

A lover
An angel with devil within

Shared underwear with her,  him?
And razors too
David Bowie on the radio
Poor little Genie, and Mick Singing Angie

The maple leaves no longer green
Now

My tree blurred, a dream
Innocent young guardian angel of me
Protecting my wicked past like a cat
Lickings its lips after a bowl of cream
Reminding me

Of the soft lips I tasted, tantalised
Loved,
And never kissed again
Young angel
Innocent me
Never let go of your wicked lust
My angelic lipstick past