Carpe Diem #1541 Late Autumn Evening

Carpe Diem #1541 Late Autumn Evening

The challenge today is to create a short renga with the given haiku, both themed "evening", with a maximum of eight stanza and at least four stanza.

Here are the two haiku by Jane we worked with: they are in red, my reply is blue.
© Jane Reichhold

Late Autumn Evening

evening comes

wrapped in sea fog

tied with webs

falling on my damp body

as the moon hides behind clouds

evening sea fog

descending into sun-dried grass

sweaty lovers

lay quietly wrapped together 

moist evening air cooling them

How to create a Renga, one poet writes the first stanza, which is three lines long with a total of seventeen syllables. The next poet adds the second stanza, a couplet with seven syllables per line. The third stanza repeats the structure of the first and the fourth repeats the second, alternating in this pattern until the poem’s end.

Your Life is Full of Memories - Share

Your Life is Full of Memories - Share

Quote for Memories

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future. - Mattie Stepanek

Fairy Mushroom Memories

Memories are for a lifetime

Time to share some childhood dreams

Pretty red mushrooms

Grew in our garden

Fairies were always in my dreams

Those pretty red mushrooms

that grew in our garden

Were always sheltering fairies in my dreams

I swear my dreams were always about fairies

Even in my darkest days of childhood illnesses

My memories of fairies floating around the room

Living under those red mushrooms

Now in my later years

Those fairies still don’t leave my dreams

Just let those little imps take me to heaven

My spirit will then be forever free

My dreams will continue to be forever

About red mushrooms and fairies, that make me happy

Just sharing my childhood dreams that are sappy

Keepsakes that are inspiring me in my later years.

Quote for Passion - Tanka Poem - Wild Passion

Quote for Passion - Tanka Poem - Wild Passion

Photo Credit

Quote for  Passion - “Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir… open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us… guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love… the clarity of hatred… the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we’d know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we’d be truly dead.”― Joss Whedon

The first few words of this quote “Passion, it lies in all of us.”  but not only with humans, its also in the animal kingdom. That is why I added the photo above, the mother lion action tells it all.

I can’t really say much more as the quote covers “Passion” extremely well.

Wild Passion Tanka

Passion everywhere

some are dangerous beware

twisted compassion

Take control of your body

otherwise you could be dead

Copyright © 2018 Elsie Hagley

Celebrations & Alcohol Tanka

Photo Credit                      Celebrations & Alcohol Tanka

Feel like writing a tanka poem if so, here’s a prompt “celebrations & alcohol”

English tanka poetry consists of five units, usually with the following pattern of  –  5-7-5-7-7 which is syllables.

You don’t need a website leave your tanka poem in the comments below, I will respond and share on Twitter.

My tanka poem  - using the words “celebrations & alcohol”

alcohol and life

celebrations everywhere

leading to problems

can we enjoy a evening

with no stimulates in us

Love you to join in on this subject, even if you only want to leave a comment, with no poem.

Happy Days Writing.