Carpe Diem Haiku – hinamatsura (dolls festival)
Today the Carpe Diem prompt is hinamatsura, or dolls festival. It is also called girls day and is celebrated by putting an exhibition of dolls as depicted in the woodblock […]
Today the Carpe Diem prompt is hinamatsura, or dolls festival. It is also called girls day and is celebrated by putting an exhibition of dolls as depicted in the woodblock […]
A picture prompt for Līgo Haībun got me inspired to write about wolves. Relentlessly the pack of wolves hunt the young elk through the winter forest. With a temperature far […]
Inspired by Haiku-heights breeze I created this haiga from a winter picture I took last year. Whiffle is such a nice word inspired by breeze. not a whiffle skies cut […]
Today the Carpe Diem Prompt is Saekaeru (returning cold), which got me thinking about cranes and how they contiune the spring rituals despite a returning cold. The woodblock below is […]
To write a trireme sonnet is the task provided by Samuel Peralta (semaphore) on dVerse. It is getting late here, but I thought I should at least try. I used […]
Writing about living in two places (and times)
Poems & Stories from The Author Stew
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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