Awash in brush strokes crimson red
Sleepy dreamers rouse at the dawn
Snuggled under layers of down
Awash in brush strokes crimson red
It is tempting to pause instead
Serenaded by sweet birdsong
Awash in brush strokes crimson red
Sleepy dreamers rouse at the dawn.
kat ~ 14 February 2016
A Triolet for your Valentine’s Day. Happy warm snugly day loving the one you are with …(whispering) even if that someone is simply you! ❤️ Be sweet!
Photo Credit: Kat Myrman 2016
I am obsessed with this tree! This is an image from a different vantage point. It actually looks like there are two branch antlers on her head. She just may be a tree nymph, which explains my obsession. I pass by her every day on my drive home and I can’t look away!
From the Theoi Greek Mythology Website:
THE NYMPHAI (or Nymphs) were female spirits of the natural world, minor goddesses of the forests, rivers, springs, meadows, mountains and seas. They were responsible for the crafting of nature’s wild beauty, from the arrangement and growth of the plants, flowers and trees, to the nurture of wild birds and animals, and the formation of rocky caverns, springs, wetlands and brooks.
Nymphs were also companions of the gods. Dionysos had his wild-eyed Mainades and Bakkhai, Artemis was accompanied by a band of huntress nymphs, Hekate by the dark Lampades nymphs of the underworld. Poseidon‘s court was attended by Nereides and sea nymphs, and the Olympian court by nymph handmaidens.
Other nymphs were nurses of the gods, including the Idaian nymphs that nursed the god Zeus, and the Nysian nymphs who cared for Dionysos.
Tree Nymph
Oaken Nymph
fair blushing Dryad
clinging there
evergreen
dance with us on frostbit earth
sing to us of spring!
kat ~ 13 February 2016
Numbers flash crimson
L.E.D.’s demand reboots…
a luddite’s nightmare!
kat 13 February 2016
This haiku is in response to TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge. This week’s challenge prompt: house number. I live in an old house prone to electrical surges. As you can imagine, technology is not my friend when it comes to the clocks everywhere from each appliance in my kitchen to alarm clocks to cable boxes!!! It’s a nightmare!!! 😳 And just when I get them all changed…another surge!!!
Read more haiku by the numbers HERE.
From Wordnik:
Definitionsfrom The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition:
transitive v. To make maliciously or knowingly false statements about. See Synonyms at malign.from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License:
To make hurtful untrue comments about (someone)from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To utter calumny regarding; charge falsely and knowingly with some crime or offense, or something disreputable; slander.Synonyms: Defame, asperse, slander, scandalize, slur, vilify, smear, libel, malign
Etymologies:
-Latin calumniārī, calumniāt-, from calumnia, calumny; see calumny.(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
-From Latin calumniātus, perfect active participle of calumnior (“I accuse falsely”). (Wiktionary)
Happy Friday and welcome to Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku. Today’s word from Dictionary.com is “Columniate”. I had never heard this word before today, but I find it most useful in describing the activities of candidates in the current U.S. political climate.
There are all sorts of untrue, and bordering on slanderous, statements being tossed around by candidates and their campaigns to gain advantage over a rival. And it is so easy to be swept up into the fear-based frenzy of twisted statements. While it is a good practice to follow the adage, “If it looks too good to be true, it probably isn’t”, in the political arena it seems a good idea to follow an opposite thought as well, “if it’s too awful or outrageous to believe…it is likely unbelievable.”
and now for a bit of a rant…
Sadly the average person cannot be bothered with checking sources for truthfulness of a particular claim. This is a fatal flaw in our political process, but also a tool well played by campaigns to gain the advantage over opponents. I am always interested to know how our politicking looks to people in other countries. If I am seeing an emperor with no clothes, I can only imagine what those removed by continents and oceans must think. And I want the world to know, not all of us are unthinking lemmings here. Though sometimes it does feel as though the lemmings are growing in number…and they’re headed for the cliff’s edge!
Have a great weekend. Be kind to one another. No columniating allowed! 🙂
Calumniate – The Haikus
Inept candidates
Columniate their rivals
proving their own lack.
Calumniated
Disdained and disrespected
She had the last laugh.
The incompetent
employ calumniation
to appear able.
kat ~ 12 February 2016
Photo and Editing by Kat Myrman 2016
In movement…
Go fast but take care
you certainly cannot win
if you don’t arrive.
In abstinence…
When the pious fast
abstaining from all pleasure
more for the wicked!
kat ~ 10 February 2016
A few Haiku in response to Haiku Horizon’s weekly challenge, prompt word: “Fast”. There are two to reflect the two very distinct meanings of the word. If you would like to read other haiku or enter your own poem, click HERE.
