Writing With Gibran - Flame . August 26, 2014

From Sea and Foam ... Carpe Diem Haiku Kai inspires us with this quote:

[...] "I am the flame and I am the dry bush, and one part of me consumes the other part". [...]

But I'll add another quote:

 Pvt. Jack Bell:
Love. Where does it come from? Who lit this flame in us? No war can put it out, conquer it. I was a prisoner. You set me free.    "The Thin Red Line"

ardent heartbeats
consume hatred leaving love
flaming sunrise

the flame of knowledge
burining in a young man's heart
a cawing crow

innocence consumed
the flames of reality
on the soldiers tomb

bells ringing
the flame of faith
the doves flutter skywards

©  G.s.k. '14

Writing with Gibran - Silence - August 26, 2014

From "Sea and Foam" on Carpe Diem Haiku Kai:

[...] "A great singer is he who sings our silences". [...]

[...] "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers". [...]

[...] "The silence of the envious is too noisy". [...]

 the silence deepens
as the night falls like a blanket
upon a white world

© Chèvrefeuille

Last night I watched  "Thin Red Line" once again with my son here below a scene from the film with Hans Zimmer's fantastic soundtrack ...

 Japanese Soldier:
Are you righteous? Kind? Does your confidence lie in this? Are you loved by all? Know that I was, too. Do you imagine your suffering will be any less because you loved goodness and truth?  "The Thin Red Line"

in the winter of life
the silence of tolerance
a blade of grass

sparkling water
a river now polluted
lies silent

unloved teachers
hatred, intolerance, war
blight the silence

green ferns in the woods
a single drop of  water
disturbs the silence

 © G.s.k. '14