daisy meadow —
how to get the right
answer
‘daisy meadow’ 44/100 #haikufeltings
‘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.
‘night thoughts’ 26/100 #haikufeltings
designing
a wildflower meadow –
night thoughts
wet felted bowl on the windowsill drying
‘day’s end’ 25/100 #haikufeltings
day’s end
the white sail
out of sight
‘sketching’ 24/100 #haikufeltings
sketching …
the moon behind
the trees
’round earth’ 23/100 #haikufeltings
round earth
the attraction
of opposites
haikufeltings: images of haiku combined with feltings
‘clinging’ 22/100 #haikufeltings
clinging
to the surface of things …
melting snow
‘old fort’ 21/100 #haikufeltings
old fort
the meaning of words
I do not know
‘undoing spring’ 20/100 #haikufeltings
petal by petal
undoing
spring
‘innocence’ 19/100 #haikufeltings
cycles of innocence
the best way to stack logs
by the fire
‘early evening’ 18/100 #haikufeltings
early evening
now the absence
of flowers
‘lazy day’ 17/100 #haikufeltings
lazy day …
taking the measure
of everything
‘inside the egg ‘ 16/100 #haikufeltings
inside the egg chicken and egg
