Carpe Diem – Onitsura Special
Carpe Diem is to write haiku inspired by this haiku by Onitsura the cool breeze fills the empty vault of heaven with the voice of the pine-tree This feels like […]
Carpe Diem is to write haiku inspired by this haiku by Onitsura the cool breeze fills the empty vault of heaven with the voice of the pine-tree This feels like […]
Today’s Carpe Diem kigo is Tanpopo (Dandelion). And once more I turn to Claude Monet for an illustration you cannot stop a child blowing dandelion seed spreading of the weeds […]
Today the prompt in Carpe Diem is Tako (kite). As a physicist I got to think about Benjamin Franklin and the discovery of Electricity. (don’t try this at home) Benjamin […]
Carpe Diem prompt is Oborozuki (hazy moon), and with spring the mallards return hazy moon in balmy wind of spring duck returns ~~ see mallards hunt their shadows in hazy […]
Līgo Haībun prompt is the photograph attached. I thought I would write a story that is the exact opposite of my first impression of the picture by David Williamson. She […]
Writing about living in two places (and times)
Poems & Stories from The Author Stew
practising for a whole life
haikai poetry matters
Running in the slow lane
The view from here ... Or here!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
chronicling my quarter life crisis