wall calendar –
each year Mount Olympus
a little farther
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Mountain
wall calendar –
each year Mount Olympus
a little farther
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Mountain
old wall
ants in and out
of the cavities
.
In Shamrock No 23, September 2012 (Haiku Journal of the Irish Haiku Society)
.
writing on the wall
the drum beat grows
faster
écriture sur le mur
le rythme du tambour s’accélère
rapidement
.
scriere pe perete –
ritmul tobei se accelerează
cu rapiditate
.
Virginia Popescu posts paintings on her FB page and invites poets to write a haiku on them. I wrote this haiku to go with Rembrandt‘s Balthazar’s Feast, and Virginia translated it into French and Romanian! Thanks, Virginia!
It is also a response to the NaHaiWriMo prompt: drums
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cloistered garden
scent of roses drifts
over the wall
.
NaHaiWriMo prompt: rose(s)