like an apple mostly poetry stuff https://likeanapple.silvrback.com/feed Content Management/Blog en-us Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:22:09 -0400 jessicaslavin@zoho.com (like an apple) https://likeanapple.silvrback.com/in-the-rays-of-the-setting-sun#8654 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:22:09 -0400 https://likeanapple.silvrback.com/in-the-rays-of-the-setting-sun in the rays of the setting sun The latest "sparkling stars" prompt over at Carpe Diem is this one by Kikaku:

in the rays of the setting sun
there flutters along the city street,
a butterfly

Here's my response, I started writing it on a walk today.

flock of geese passing
over the river where a
lone goose honks

]]> https://likeanapple.silvrback.com/sage#8537 Wed, 01 Oct 2014 01:05:26 -0400 https://likeanapple.silvrback.com/sage Yozakura Carpe Diem prompt Yozakura's question, "How did you became involved with 'Soloku' or as you call it nowadays haiku?"

The first time I remember writing a haiku was in high school. It was about an apple. Then I don't think I wrote any for 25 years or so. I wrote some more a couple years ago when I was falling in love, as a Valentine's Day gift for my beau. In that little burst of haiku passion, I discovered Carpe Diem. I didn't know then that the love with Carpe Diem would be the longer-lasting one!

I am not sure how to craft a haiku that captures how I fell in love with haiku. Here's a try.

my eyes are closed but
like a dream I can still see
the breeze move the curtains

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Carpe Diem prompt "corn". I love this one Kristjaan offers, by Jane Reichhold:

harvest moon
a bulging corn crib
releases it

I remember the bulging corn crib from my grandpa's farm when I was little. And I can relate to the scene from Kristjaan's haiku too:

lost in the corn fields
I look at autumn's sky and listen,
a Skylark's song

For my own haiku I am remembering something from my grandpa's farm.

raccoon at the corn crib
grasping, pulling at the cob
sunlight fading

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