27 responses to “Carpe Diem Haiku – Companions”

1. is the woodsman coming?
   are they soon to be canoes?
   or is the shore line eroding beneath their roots?

   Cheers!
   JzB

   • I saw the old oaks becoming ships one day… :-=

     • I can hear the timber creaking as they sail across the seven seas. Thanks for the journey!

2. They were, they are and they will. Beautifully penned, Björn.

   • Thank you.. 🙂

3. Trees DO companion one another! We see it here during a severe storm. Trees that are paired off stay standing. The loners are more likely to fall!

4. beautiful companions indeed!

5. How versatile can oaks be! They enhance their life in other forms. You caught it perfectly Bjorn!

   Hank

6. At least they’ll have each other on that voyage. Can’t help but feel a little sorry for them though. Seems my neighbor cuts down a tree every week. It’s almost a physical pain to watch. The flow of your haiku is always magical.

7. I read them differently than your intended meaning and they are lovely. You have gotten to be masterful consistently!

   • I love how you read them differently 🙂

8. I’d like to be there when those trees set sail. I imagine it will be a magnificent sight!

   My Sole Companions

9. How lovely!

10. I was thinking you were using them as a metaphor. As ever, a sublime connection between the words and pictures.

    • Thank you Steve 🙂

11. Looking forward to the next part of their journey….I really like this one.

12. A brilliant approach, Bjorn

13. Great Bjorn, travelling does transform companions 😉

    Companions

14. Sometimes it’s hard to see or believe that there’s going to be a meeting “beyond the horizon.”

    Companions for the Journey

15. this, as so many of your poems are, was simply beautiful. I love thinking of those old friends, (their roots entwined) sailing away and still together.

    • yes trees can look like old friends

16. It’s like Frodo setting off.

    • Indeed 🙂

17. my take? rising waters resulting from ‘climate change’ will rip them away to travel…

    • So sad ;-(

18. That first haiku brought a haiku in mind which I wrote several years ago. It was then that I hadn’t found English to write haiku in. It was in my own language Dutch and I have translated it.

    through the years
    two oaks became companions
    sharing their branches

    I think it’s very similar with your haiku. Thank you Bjorn for sharing these wonderful haiku with us.

19. Wonderful haiku and with a warming message for the ‘later years’ ~ happy day to you ~ carol ^_^
    Thanks for visiting.

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