Ergo, the Ogre

Full Snow Moon

February 20, 2019
As you all know Hineri means with a twist, so today’s challenge at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is to create not only the 2nd (two-lined) stanza, but also the 3rd (three-lined) stanza and 4th (two-lined) stanza through association. For today’s Hineri Tan Renga Challenge I have chosen a haiku by one of our longtime members of our haiku family, Hamish Managua Gunn.

full snow moon
stirs the ladybug
on cold bare branches © Hamish

frost dripping in moonlight

she awakens, missing her mate.

Watching the cold sun

rise above the mountain tops

she wishes for Spring

when there were happy times

before loneliness came.

Full Snow Moon (February 2019)
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Spring

February 18, 2019
Carpe Diem #1608 Tan Renga Challenge Month 2019 (12) Spring is in the air

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the sky is bluer

birds are singing once again

caressed by sunshine (c) Kim M. Russell

Flower petals reach upward

Scenting the warm spring breeze
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One

February 17, 2019
This week’s visual prompt at Hélène Vaillant’s Willow Poetry blog is the image below.

Past the shifting facades,

behind the dead ends,

on the other side

of vertigo

lies my heart:

hermetically sealed

by fear

of intimacy, by

distrust and abandonment.

Many have tried to

navigate the labyrinth

to its end;

all had failed.

All, but one.
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Curiosity

February 15, 2019
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: And now it is up to you to create the 2nd stanza (2-lines), the 3rd stanza (3-lines) and the 4th stanza (2lines) inspired / associated on the given haiku.

the sound of the surf
enters my home through the open window
and a butterfly © Chèvrefeuille (2018)

glides in, as if on a wave,

alights on kitchen counter.

Antennae twitching

Orange-yellow wings shudder

Ever so slightly.

Cat and butterfly each aware

Of the other. Neither moves.
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Wild at Heart

February 14, 2019
This week’s prompt at #Three Line Tales is the image below by by Nick Fewings via Unsplash.

My heart is a free spirit—wild like the wind.

It runs with a rough crowd and has no street smarts.

It can’t help but get broken no matter how hard I try to keep it safe.
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