weekly photo challenges weathered – Whippet Wisdom

Haibun: Freedom Of The Dawn

two whippets in winter coats playing with balls and leaping across the beach by the dunes

Dawn opens her door and pours her warm on weathered sands. We are free to bounce and pounce, catch balls that spin and fly towards the sky with all the colours of a new day.

frost melts
our buddha in the garden
smiles again

We wish you all a very happy Monday and a wonderful new week!

With love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8, 1/500 s, ISO 250.

This poem features in Sharing Our Horizon. If you haven’t read the book yet, feel free to take a peek inside:

Look Inside cover icon for Sharing Our Horizon by Xenia Tran — Look Inside …

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We are deeply honoured and delighted that the above haiku has subsequently been featured as part of the World Haiku Series 2019 organised by the Akita International Haiku Network, together with a Japanese translation by Hidenori Hiruta.

Haiku: Silent Stones

a blue whippet with a pink ball and a black whippet with a green ball in winter jackets running between weathered pillboxes on a frosty beach

a pillbox spills
her swallowed stones
in silence

a blue whippet in a winter jacket sniffing seaweed beside weathered pillboxes on a frosty beach

With love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx

Kristjaan (Chevrefeuille) at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai has created a beautiful e-book ‘All My Years – Tribute to Jane Reichhold’, which includes the tanka ‘A Dream Rests’, the haibun ‘Divine Timing’ and the haiku ‘Candles On Water’, ‘Stars Carry Wishes’, ‘One Deserted Beach’, ‘Poems In Your Eyes’, ‘A Loving Gift’, ‘Generous Moon’ and ‘Seaweed Whispers’ from our blog.

Jane Reichhold’s work has been a great inspiration to many haiku and tanka poets, including myself. It is an honour to have some of my work written in tribute to her included in this special collection.

‘All My Years – Tribute to Jane Reichhold’ is available as a free download from Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.

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