Apples (2) - September 26, 2014

A second round for apples ... when I lived in Northern Africa, I discovered that the only apples that could be found were imported from the cooler European climes. An agronomist explained, that the fruit won't form unless the tree had undergone a winter freeze. 

American Verse

Mock apple pie in Chad - cinnamon, sugar and thin sliced eggplant.

American Haiku

bright red apples
gift of the winter
received in autumn

Haiku

bobbing for apples
a jack-o-lantern looks on
children laughing

Corn - September 26, 2014

Today Kigo is Corn for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai:

 

American Sentences

Bushels of corn waiting at the roadside stand - waiting to be roasted.

Roastin'  ears in melted butter - companions toasting autumn with beer.

American Haiku

sitting by the fire

corn roasting in foil

last barbecue

popcorn dancing

red hot iron skillet

melted butter and salt

Haiku

indian summer

last warm days before winter

the corn is ripe

Little creatures - Lizard - September 26, 2014

For Capre Diem Haiku Kai's "Little Creatures" - lizards. 

American Sentences

Standing on the ceiling in silence, the white gecko hunts mosquitos.

American Haiku

a warm rock
in a sea of wet grass
the lizard basks

the cat pounced
a lizard scuttled off
leaving his tail behind

Haiku

indian summer
the lizard salks the spider
in Bolognano

© G.s.k. '14

Writing with Gibran - Truth - August 12, 2014

Today, as you can see in the title for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai we read quotes by Khalil Gibran about truth:

[...] "I am ignorant of absolute truth, but I am humble before my ignorance, and therein lies my honor and my reward". [...]

[...] "Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it, but it divides us from truth". [...]

[...] "Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you need to have knowledge of the art and magic of the music of words, the art of being artless and the magic of loving your readers". [...]

[...] "When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty". [...]

From "Sand and Foam" 

American Sentence

The moon in the pond,  an illusion,  like truth in ideology.

Misty education sometimes dims pure unadultereated truth.

 © G.s.k. '14

American Haiku 

 

one man's vision
truth or illusion
often beautiful lies

truth
elusive commodity
 illusory world

the honest man
wary of inner truth
seeks out his ignorance

© G.s.k. '14