Tag Archives: time

Blog, Haiku, Journals 2016

“Joining the Dots” in Haibun Today

Joining the Dots

From the compensation for the demolition of his house to make way for a new road, he bought two tiny apartments, a four-poster bed, an amber komboloi, and a pendulum clock. As a child, I considered the wall-mounted, cherry wood, chiming clock to be my granddad’s most striking acquisition. I checked it continuously, comparing its time to the watch my dad had given me before going away to sea.

approaching wind knots matter

But it was the sound of it chiming the hour that stayed with me the longest. Half a century later, I can feel the deep resonance of that chime opening doors to the past.

let’s say the map shrinks afterwards

In Haibun Today, 10: 1, 2017

Blog, blog items, Haiku, Journals 2015

“Time” receives Hon. Mention in the “Best of Haibun and Tanka Forms” 2015, for the KF Anthology

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I must be on a roll! Delighted to learn that my haibun “Time” received third honourable mention in the “Best of Haibun and Tanka Forms” 2015, for the KYSO Flash Anthology due out in December 2015.

Roberta Beary, award-winning poet and haibun editor of Modern Haiku, the judge of this contest, wrote:

Stella Pierides’ haibun shows how time, which is also the title, turned the narrator’s expectations of her life’s autumn upside-down. The haiku at the haibun’s end effectively juxtaposes the images and original word choice in lines 1 and 2, lulling the reader along until the surprise of line 3. At first glance the haiku does not seem relevant to the prose. A deeper reading shows that the haiku echoes and expands the feelings of surprise and mortality elicited by the prose, which is exactly what is supposed to happen in haibun.

You can find “Time” here

Blog, blog items, Haiku, Journals 2015

‘Time’ in KYSO Flash

Whenever I thought of the ravages time would inflict on me, I thought of wrinkles. I imagined myself slightly plump, with a few strategically placed wrinkles and a very respectable grey sheen in my hair. I also considered liver spots, imagining myself smiling benevolently behind a seemingly sun-blessed veil of freckles. Now that I’ve reached a point when time weighs on me… let’s say, there have been surprises, indiscretions, indignities. Take the slight pearl that sometimes appears and glistens on the side of my mouth.

honeydew
a blush spreads over the edge
of the precipice
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In KYSO Flash, May 2015

aros, Blog, Haiku, NaHaiWriMo

‘slowing down time…’, ‘sea of clouds’, ‘in the middle’

Responding to three prompts today:
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slowing down time…
she pricks her thumb
on the spindle
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On the one hand, sleeping beauty, on the other, have a look at this article about time freezing or slowing down under certain circumstances: Click here
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Prompt: Scifaiku
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sea of clouds
the catch viewed
in time lapse
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Fish
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in the middle
of a heart-breaking scene…
rustle of new silk
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Philippine Haiku Daily prompt: Swish

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!”)

100 Days of Summer, aros, Blog, Haiku, NaHaiWriMo

‘heart and eyes’ #6 September 2012

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heart and eyes –

how the soul seeks

compassion

Augsburg Dom

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NaHaiWriMo prompt:  from fav song

57/100 Days of Summer

2nd Annual 30 Days of Haiga

From one of my very favorite arias: “Have mercy, my God,” St Matthew Passion, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPAiH9XhTHc

 

5 September 2012

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time check –

a few more berries

on the bush

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NaHaiWriMo prompt: joy(s)

56/100 Days of Summer