Tag Archives: Snow

# 1613…. seize the poem prompt #13 flower in snow

March 18, 2018

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first day of spring
fresh snow covers blossoms
Nor’Easter
spots of color brighten day
early blooms shiver
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seize the poem Prompt #13 your words
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photo: Mike Keville, prompt photo
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Posted by siggiofmaine in Poetry, Seize the Poem ~ Caroline Skanne Poems Tags: Nor'Easter, Snow, snow covers flowers

Small stones: A Journey of Mindfulness: Sound of Snow Falling

February 21, 2015

photo (c) Saradunn NorEaster Iola..1/24/2015

Prompt: Small stones:
a journey of mindfulness: sound

My Response to the Prompt:

Sound of Snow Falling

silence
birds in hiding
snow falling
crunch under foot ~ gather wood
fireplace ~ sizzle snap of flames

Saradunn

Posted by siggiofmaine in Poetry, Seize the Poem ~ Caroline Skanne Poems Tags: Blizzard, silence, Snow, sound

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Carpe Diem #625, Glacier

December 15, 2014

This southerly view shows Somes Sound as seen from the north end in Somesville, Maine on Mount Desert Island. Bar Harbor is to the north and northeast of this point.

My response to the prompt:

on near by shore

glacier formations reminder

snow ~ ice formed Somes Sound

My response to yesterdays prompt Carpe Diem #624, Snow

due to not being able to connect to the internet

evening snow fall

in church steeples light

worshiper’s foot prints

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I live next to a church and can see the front door and steeple

from my house… the sight of the snow in the light on the steeple

fascinates me and lets me know how much snow is falling.

Moments in time, each special and memorable.

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From the prompt Glacier:

A glacier (US /ˈɡleɪʃər/ or UK /ˈɡlæsiə/) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

Glaciers slowly deform and flow due to stresses induced by their weight, creating crevasses, seracs, and other distinguishing features.

They also abrade rock and debris from their substrate to create landforms such as cirques and moraines. Glaciers form only on land and are distinct from the much thinner sea ice and lake ice that form on the surface of bodies of water.

Credits: Grey Glacier Torres del Paine National Park Chile

This glacier looks fantastic … let me look at the haiku which Jane uses for example for this modern kigo for winter according to her “A Dictionary of Haiku”:

under low clouds
evening sky glacier
cools the wind

a journey ends
where the glacier melted
a field of stones

© Jane Reichhold

Two extraordinary beautiful haiku I think ….
Our host Kristjaan Panneman aka © Chèvrefeuille shared:

as far as I can see
blueish, greyish and whiteish snow
first glacier contact

Posted by siggiofmaine in haiku, Memoir, Poetry Tags: A Dictionary of Haiku, Carpe Diem, Carpe Diem #624, haiku, Jane Reichhold, Kristjaan Panneman aka Chèvrefeuille, modern kigo, Snow, winter

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Carpe Diem Special #37, the second haiku by Richard Wright “in the falling snow”

December 12, 2014

photo from prompt

My response to the prompt:

snow falling

dancing in snowflakes

child-like joy

Saradunn

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Unexpected and rare event

in Japan where we lived.

Unexpected accummulation

where snowfall usually melts

as fast as it falls.

In Wisconsin, USA, the snow

fall is an expected event and

much heavier.

Childish joy in the discovery

is a fond memory of my time

living in Minami Rinkan near

Tokyo in view of Mt Fuji.

My son had just been born

a few days before…

a neighbor cared for him as

I delighted in the large wet snow

falling and covering the yard.

The Prompt:

Than I have here our Carpe Diem Special, a haiku by our featured haiku-poet, Richard Wright (1908-1960) … he was a forefighter of the Black Americans and in his last years he discovered haiku. He wrote a lot of haiku (more than 4000) and compiled an anthology of his own work with 880 haiku. He is really a great haiku-poet and I am loving his work very much. So let us go on to another wonderful haiku written by him. I have tried to use a haiku which is close to the GW-post earlier in this post. I think I have found a nice one to share here for your inspiration.

The goal of the Carpe Diem Special is to write a haiku inspired on the given haiku by the featured haiku poet and try to touch the same sense, tone and spirit.

Here is my ( Kristjaan Panneman) attempt:

through the early night
the laugh of children playing –
virgin snow

Posted by siggiofmaine in Carpe Diem Special, Carpe Diem ~ haiku, haiku, Memoir, Poetry Tags: birth of son, Chèvrefeuille aka Kristjaan Panneman, Minami Rinkan, Mt Fuji, Richard Wright~haiku poet 1908 -1860, Snow

Carpe Diem Goes Back to Its Roots #4

January 19, 2014

Today the goal is to write a classical haiku following the classical rules of haiku.

So your haiku has to follow the next rules:

1. Describe a moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water; so present tense;
2. 5-7-5 syllables;
3. Use a kigo (or seasonword);
4. Use a kireji (or cuttingword);
5. Sometimes a deeper spiritual or Zen-Buddhistic meaning;
6. First and third line are interchangeable and last but not least
7. No Self, avoid personal or possessive pronouns (I, me, my);

it’s an experience not how the poet feels about it.

frigid air ~ sleet ~ snow

Mother Nature’s shifting moods

sun brings out beauty