Forever Home: A Tanka Sequence with Margaret Dornaus #3

crumbling brickwork

echoes across the canal . . .

with every bridge

I renew my faith

in a boundless sky

Venice, Italy, 1998 (click on image to enlarge)

Tanka & photograph © Kirsten Cliff

Tanka appeared in LYNX XXVII: 3 (October, 2012)

in "Forever Home" a tanka sequence with Margaret Dornaus

To see the first post in this sequence click here.
To see Margaret's tanka and pictures for "Forever Home", 
visit Haiku-doodle.

Surrender

August 20th NaHaiWriMo prompt is "surrender", provided by Chrissi Villa. 

no wind today

the chimes hang limp

and I watching

...And one from my hubby today, too, Cameron Elliot:

treatment ends
the sky yields
a burst of rain

Find out more about the 31 Different NaHaiWriMo Prompters for August 2012 here.

Exploration

August 5th NaHaiWriMo prompt is "exploration", provided by Michael Nickels-Wisdom.

rainbow sky...

searching for the message

in last night's dream


Find out more about the 31 Different NaHaiWriMo Prompters for August 2012 here.

Long Winter Nights...

...are perfect for getting crafty! But before I show you what I've been up to this week, below is the June page of my calendar. The haiku was written a year ago today and appeared in The Heron's Nest. The photo was also taken a year ago at the new Te Puke Cemetery, as the last of the sun was going down.

June 2012 - Kirsten's Calendar of Haiku & Photography

Now that winter has hit us here again in the Southern Hemisphere, I've been spending some time each evening sticking stuff to other stuff, and coming out with these cards:

I love using bits and pieces I find in old books, and adding a bit of origami is always fun. I look at these cards as mini canvases. I just see an image in my head, then try to collage it out into the real world. I'm not making these with any person or any occasion in mind. I'm just enjoying getting stuck into my crafting again, and enjoying having my own creating room for the first time, to do it in! :)

Dream Catcher: A Rengay With Cara Holman

Dream Catcher

Kirsten Cliff & Cara Holman

crosswinds

struggling not to recall

last night's dream

the morning sky

filled with rain

drifting fog

where does the dream end

and I begin

dream catcher

I tell myself what

I want to believe

across dandelioned fields

a hawk's shadow

river reeds

weaving daydreams

into stories

Published in 'fox dreams' - a Yay Words! project by Aubrie Cox

A small stone I picked up a few nights ago...

as the bath fills

so does the sky

with this moon

 Photography by Cameron Elliot - Poetry by Kirsten Cliff

Chinese New Year

January 2012 - Kirsten's Calendar of Haiku & Photography

Regular followers of this blog might remember that I actually set myself a second goal last year: to make a calendar of haiku and photography to be given as Christmas presents to my family.

Well, I did it, and everybody loved it! :)

With the Chinese New Year celebrations upon us, I thought it was about time I showed my readers some of what my calendar turned out like. Above is my January page: a shot I took near my old home of Papamoa Beach, from one of my favourite spots, and the haiku is one that was published in the NZPS Anthology in 2008, Before the Sirocco.

It's probably one of my favourite haiku by me: it was my first play around with form in haiku, and I still think of it every summer when I stretch out my toes and feel that first rush of cool breeze.

I hope the sunny scene warms those of you in the Northern parts of our Earth. And Happy New Year once again!

Christmas Mall

      Christmas mall...
      clouds move slowly
      across the skylight

Notes From the Gean, December 2011 (3:3)

Merry Christmas to all my friends, readers and fellow writers!

May you find some space to move slowly

this busy holiday season :)

With Good News

                    each time

                    with good news

                    seems to come bad

                    the wind snatches thoughts

                    of our future

paper wasp, volume seventeen, number 3, winter 2011

 

Tanka © Kirsten Cliff 2011

Photograph by Cameron Elliot

First Winter's Day

          first winter's day
          I slip into
          his gumboots

The Heron's Nest, Volume XIII, Number 3: September, 2011

Haiku and photograph © Kirsten Cliff 2011