aros, Blog, Haiku, NaHaiWriMo

‘soft fruit’ #21 July 2013

 

soft fruit
swelling on the branches
full buck moon
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: moon

From the Farmers’ Almanac:

“July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month’s Moon was the Full Hay Moon.”

aros, Blog, Haiku

‘circus time’ 18 July 2013

 

circus time
a dove escapes
the magician’s hat
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Posted on Kirsten Cliff’s blog, Swimming in Lines of Haiku, 18 July 2013, in response to her July challenge, “I Quote, You ‘Ku.” Today’s quote was:
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
~Rabindranath Tagore

(The challenge, in Kirsten’s own words:
“… is to write a haiku or tanka (or choose one of your previously published works) that has a connection with the themes/feelings/images of the above quote, without just restating what has appeared in the text, to create a haibun. Play around with it and see what you come up with. Enjoy!”)

Blog, Haiku, In the Garden of Absence, News

Smashwords e-book promotion

 

In the Garden of Absence
In the Garden of Absence

 

 

I’m taking part in the summer/winter 2013 Smashwords e-book promotion. For the whole month of July, In the Garden of Absence, will be available as an e-book from the Smashwords site at the reduced price of $1.50 USD, that is 75% off!

To download a copy, please visit Smashwords by clicking here and use coupon SSW75 at checkout.

The offer is good through to the 31st of July 2013.

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“In Pierides’s meditations, imagination takes center stage, as do imaginary gardens, real toads, and their negative space… The result is a welcome debut in which the reader will find much to admire.”

“Briefly Reviewed,” Frogpond, 36-1, Spring 2013″

Blog, Haiku, Other Writers

On the Road

The new THF Per Diem collection, Songs of the Open Road, is up and running over at the Haiku Foundation site. Guest-edited by Tom Painting, it takes us on 31 exciting, meditative, and always inspirational journeys. Highways and motorways, straight paths and winding lanes are there for us to explore all through July. In his introduction to the collection, Tom Painting quotes from Walt Whitman’s poem, Song of the Open Road:

“ Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me…”

I very much look forward to these journeys. Join me on board the THF Per Diem for the ride. Each day a new haiku here

 

aros, Blog, Haiku, NaHaiWriMo

‘sleeping beauty’ #25 June 2013

Remember my haiga ‘euphorbia’ posted here a few weeks ago? To see it, please click here

The original photo was of my pond. Below left is another photo, taken in May last year. Then we had a terrible storm. On the 20th of June 2013, the winds raged round the pond, the garden, the whole city; the impact of this storm on my pond can be seen below right:

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needles, then trees
swirl round the pond —
eye of the storm

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sleeping beauty —
how the storm covered
your charms

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Blog, News, Other Writers, Short stories

FLASH MOB 2013

I am taking part in the flash story event, FLASH MOB 2013, celebrating International Flash fiction Day. A sort of literary carnival and international competition in one, with over a hundred writers of flash from around the world taking part by posting short stories in their blogs.

 If you love flash fiction, then this is the best place to browse for stories – and if you don’t know anything about flash, this is the place to start! Click here

My own story is in the European writers section here 

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