from my window
the path to
the woods
‘from my window’ 74/100 #haikufeltings
All posts by Stella Pierides
‘dawn’ 73/100 #haikufeltings
dawn …
what is life
but light
‘brass pedestal’ 72/100 #haikufeltings
brass pedestal
the ceiling fan’s
hum
‘sugar wool’ 71/100 #haikufeltings
sugar wool—
in the long queue
short tempers
‘summer night’s dream’ 70/100 #haikufeltings
summer night’s dream—
and on the eighth day
she made a bear
‘evening hour—’ 69/100 #haikufeltings
evening hour—
sound of the wind
from the mountain
.
This is a later stage of the felting
‘Alpine air’ 68/100 #haikufeltings
Alpine air—
scent of the bubbling
stream
‘old flame’ 67/100 #haikufeltings
the old flame’s
swirling skirts …
summer’s day
‘bouncing light’ 66/100 #haikufeltings
bouncing light
togetherness in a group
portrait
‘cooling down’ 65/100 #haikufeltings
cooling down
the weight of this heat
.
‘summer grass’ 64/100 #haikufeltings
summer grass
the tortoise overtakes
the hare
.
I am planning a tortoise race this Saturday and these are the badges I've made for the tortoises (suspiciously similar to the two local football clubs 🙂 ).
‘blues song’ 63/100 #haikufeltings
blues song
the barmaid wipes
her tears
‘summer solstice’ 62/100 #haikufeltings
summer solstice
the delayed train
of thought
‘swamps and floodplains’ 61/100 #haikufeltings
swamps and floodplains
the carved basalt head
covered in wool
‘strong current’ 60/100 #haikufeltings
strong current
a chunk of earth floats out
to sea
‘morning post’ 59/100 #haikufeltings
morning post
scent of the letter marked
X
‘wisdom?’ 58/100 #haikufeltings
wisdom?
even a philosopher
gets spots
‘dawn walk’ 57/100 #haikufeltings
dawn walk—
fragrance of silk white
peonies
‘dense thicket’ 56/100 #haikufeltings
dense thicket
the wounded doe runs
for cover
In ‘Hedgerow’
Pleased to see my haiku in issue 127 of ‘Hedgerow’ edited by Caroline Skanne! Thank you Caroline!
In ‘Peonies’
Three of my haiku were translated into Bulgarian and included in the anthology Peonies edited by Iliyana Stoyanova! Thank you, Iliyana!
‘water meadows’ 55/100 #haikufeltings
water meadows
a frog I don’t know
answers my croak
‘late sunset’ 54/100 #haikufeltings
late sunset
waiting to release
the balloons
‘for your journey’ 53/100 #haikufeltings
for your journey …
we fold your dreams
under your pillow
‘summer solstice’ 52/100 #haikufeltings
summer solstice
I pick flowers
for my hair
.
(Photo: laying out the wool before wet felting)
‘Fata Morgana’ 51/100 #haikufeltings
Fata Morgana
the drift
to the unknown
‘tricks of the eye’ 50/100 #haikufeltings
tricks of the light …
above and below
the horizon
‘bridging’ 49/100 #haikufeltings
bridging
the gap between us—
telescope
‘silk threads’ 48/100 #haikufeltings
silk threads—
we are in this
together
Emile and Jacobo
