water meadows
a frog I don’t know
answers my croak
‘water meadows’ 55/100 #haikufeltings
Category Archives: Haiku
‘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
‘the Baby’ 47/100 #haikufeltings
the baby
unfurling her fists …
peony buds
‘her first vowels’ 46/100 #haikufeltings
her first vowels
the way she says
"aah"
‘fiery sunset’ 45/100 #haikufeltings
fiery sunset—
rock pools filling up
with night
‘daisy meadow’ 44/100 #haikufeltings
daisy meadow —
how to get the right
answer
‘city lights’
city lights …
after a while
the glare
‘sudden squall’ 42/100 #haikufeltings
sudden squall —
I search for the right colour
wool
‘reshaping’ 41/100 #haikufeltings
reshaping
my Aegean dream …
waves at noon
‘balloons’ 40/100 #haikufeltings
balloons
the many shapes
of a cure
‘Pentelic marble’ 39/100 #haikufeltings
Pentelic marble –
shape of a long forgotten
dream
‘among the daisies’ 38/100 #haikufeltings
among the daisies
plucking the last petal …
‘toy factory’ 37/100 #haikufeltings
toy factory …
the polar bear cub’s
dark side
‘evening chill’ 36/100 #haikufeltings
evening chill
.
how the moon shrinks
and shakes …
Nasa news
‘Mother’s Day’ in Butterfly Dream
English Original
mother’s day
pushing all the wrong
buttons
Frogpond, 38:2, Spring/Summer 2015
Stella Pierides
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
母親節
激起所有強烈
的情緒
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
母親節
激起所有強烈
的情緒
Delighted to see my Mother’s Day haiku appear on Butterfly Dream today! Translated into Chinese by Chen-ou Liu!
Thank you Chen-ou!
‘espresso maker’ 35/100 #haikufeltings
rainy Sunday
the espresso maker babbles
and spurts
‘random thoughts’ 34/100 #haikufeltings
filling in
the missing parts …
random thoughts
(The felting image is work in progress)
‘noon at the beach’ 33/100 #haikufeltings
noon at the beach
the crunchy sound of
my keyboard
‘hour by hour’ 32/100 #haikufeltings
hour by hour
the day gathers pace . . .
falling petals
‘waiting’ 31/100 #haikufeltings
waiting
for his felted bear …
the house cat
‘morning routine’ 30/100 #haikufeltings
morning routine
the way I put myself
together
‘edge of the moor’ 29/100 #haikufeltings
edge of the moor …
the balance between
wild and tame
‘humility’ 28/100 #haikufeltings
humility –
the descending path
to the sea
‘Babel’ 27/100 #haikufeltings
Babel
how we came to lose
faith
Poem included in this year’s EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration on the theme of Indigenous languages.
