24 responses to “Carpe Diem Haiku – Threnody”

1. Our leaves aren’t whirling today because the rain has plastered them to the ground. 🙂

   janet

2. Great… well-crafted. 🙂 The dancing leaves…
   -HA

   • 🙂

3. I beautiful marriage of the photo and haiku..

   • Thank you 🙂

4. nice one! 🙂

   • Thanks 🙂

5. Like Claudia, you send us to Google with “threnody”–song of lamentation; another very cool word I have to learn, and start to use. We are coming off a very warm summer, and our nights are not cold enough yet to paintbrush the leaves properly; only the odd tree here & there. I am anxious to get out my camera, and record this Fall’s bounty.

   • Ah.. yes Threnody is a great word…

6. I second Glenn Buttkus with threnody. But he did the work for me. It is a lovely word – it glides.

7. Sweet and mournful. I had a dream last night that I meant a woman who said “I read your haiku,” which I rarely write. My computer is funky and would not let me google threnody but I found the answer to it in the comments above.

8. beautiful image
   and i’m talking about
   your words

   JzB

9. A visual peep at the movements outside the window. Beautiful write Bjorn!

   Hank

10. Somehow I imagine this being a very slow dance…

    Haiku Threnody

11. Lamenting the passing season – beautifully expressed!

12. I believe our summer has died. Tho lovely weather in the 60s for a few days. A final bud on my rosebush. Maybe an October bloom.

13. A seasons passes, a threnody begins…

14. I apologise that I have been so very absent from your blog and wonderful spirited verse and good-natured witticisms. This was a beautiful post upon which for me to happen. I confess I do go through these periods of time into which I seem to withdraw. I have not properly participated in the blogosphere in a number of months, except to post and to answer a few very long and kind comments.

    Tonight, I found myself thinking of those I met here in the very beginning. How close and how far they are away.

    What is the distance between two blog posts? The distance between a post and a comment? That which most often encourages me also very often causes me to withdraw. It is not unusual for those that are not entirely neuro-typical.

    • David – I saw your post on Rhonda, and indeed people go on and of – keeping up a blog is very much a live thing. I have gotten myself engaged in various communities and write 2-3 entries per day. The disadvantage is that I look to little outside those communities. There are a lot of good blogs (like yours) I miss then …

      • Yes, likewise; and I quite agree. Plus, sometimes work intervenes. But I am a naturally shy person so all this being gregarious to people halfway ’round the world is very unnatural for me. And things like you mentioned are perhaps more painful to me than to the average individual.

15. WOW! A wonderful respons on threnody Bjorn, very well crafted … a masterpiece.

16. Right on the mark.

17. I too lament the passing of summer…I am going outdoors to twirl with some leaves….

18. The art captured the mood Bjorn
    summer is my favorite mood and season

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