Tag Archives: Memories
Spring Break-Up – Haibun – May 3, 2016
a game of chess while a skylark sings it’s song – I lost the game © Chèvrefeuille A lovely poem. These words bring to mind my first love. I was completely smitten by him. He was all I could have … Continue reading
Passing Time With Cicadas – Haibun – April 6, 2016
(Inspired by: the stillness – seeping into the rocks cicadas’ screech © Matsuo Basho) Summer evenings back in Illinois in the early 1960s were full of voices of children screeching as they played tag, basketball or maybe croquet. Back then it … Continue reading
A is for Awakening – AToZ Blogging Challenge – April 1, 2016
The pain had been terrible … the disorientation worse. As the maelstrom of the birth-pangs racked her body, her mind drifted into some warm fuzzy greenish place created by the drugs they’d given her. She’d become almost completely unaware of what … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC Blogging Challenge, birth, Death, Dragonwillow Journeys, Life, Memories, reflections
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Reflections in Padua – Haibun – February 3, 2016
I walked in the rain in Padua remembering other rainfalls and other cities. Weaving through the people coming and going from the station, I soon found myself at the bus stop. A sea of umbrellas over a mass of people stood waiting for … Continue reading
Posted in Haibun (Prose Poetry
Tagged dVerse -Haibun Monday, Italy, Life, Memories, Milan, Padua, rain, travel, Winter
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Snow Dreams – Short Fiction – January 18, 2016
There’s something mystical in the first snow fall of the year. A special quality of silence, Janice thought, one could almost hear the snowflakes fall. She’d arrived early and was waiting for the night shift to get off. Listening to classical music, she began to day-dream. She … Continue reading
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Tagged 200 words composition, Death, imagination, Memories, Photo Challenge, Sunday Photo Fiction, Winter
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Mountain Walking – Haibun – January 15, 2016
to the olive grove ten minutes as a crow flies fond memories When you’re fit climbing up the side of a mountain is paradise. The very air seems to help you up, your heart of course increases its beat and … Continue reading
Posted in Haibun (Prose Poetry
Tagged Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille, Hiking, imagination, in training, Life, Memories, Mindlovemisery's Menagerie, Zen
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Haibun Monday – Winter Trek – January 13, 2016
The old Roman road is well kept, as usually is the case throughout Italy, but steeper than my unfit legs can comfortably walk. Other steep hillside Roman roads come to mind … walks in spring and summer even a few trails … Continue reading
Posted in Haibun (Prose Poetry
Tagged dVerse -Haibun Monday, haunted events, Memories, Winter
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Clang, Clang, Clang – Sunday Photo Fiction – January 3, 2015
The old video came over the computer with the verve and happiness of another age. Mildred, now in her eighties smiled and began to sing along with the old tune. Her grand-kids watched her and the inverted crystal cone near … Continue reading
Posted in Short Fiction
Tagged Judy Garland, Memories, Saint Louis, Sunday Photo Fiction, The Trolley Song
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