Today is the last day of Rick Daddario’s 30DOH challenge, which can be found at 19 Planets Art Blog! It’s been great fun and now I hope to continue – experimenting with new techniques!
For today’s haiga … a meeting of friends:
walking this morning
your lovely eyes met mine
– namaste
(c) G.s.k. ’14
As I near the end of this challenge … I think how delightful it has been to put together haiku and photography in this gratifying manner … it’s really been a lot of fun! Thanks once again to Rick of 19 Planets Art Blog for this great yearly challenge … my second! Here’s today’s 30DOH:
an instant
echo of sunshine –
passing
(c) G.s.k. ’14
For 30 DOH … I went for a walk in the olive groves above the “frazione” of Massoni, which like Bolognano where I live was once a town but is now part of Arco, I came across this fence:
in the olive grove
stands a gate without a fence
– enlightenment
(c) G.s.k. ’14
Here is my bamboo wind chimes blowing in the wind:
Haiku
the flag dances
bamboo chimes tock-tocking
autumn passing by
Rain, rain and more rain…and then a moment’s sunshine!
The fountain
Today I’m not in form as the British would say and so I’m blocked. But the nice thing about having different means of expression is that if you can’t write, well, you can play with your stones or in this case your photographs.
So I was processing a rather mediocre photograph trying to find something for the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge.
This is a shot from inside the Fortress of Riva del Garda. The light is too bright and there is just nothing I can do with Picasa to render this photograph acceptable. My efforts were concentrated on trying to get a result, and I didn’t really look closely at the photograph beyond it’s brightness. In frustration I decided to invert the colors, just for the hell of it, as they say. This was the pleasant surprise I got!
Surprise!
life offers humor
when I really need a laugh
a hidden protest
found in my bland photograph
makes me smile: thanks anarchy!
Hawkers sell their wares
as we walk along the road,
be this or that, forget your cares
and don’t be just a toad!
Bright illusions are for sale
all along our dreary path
conformity does there hale
to save us from our wrath!
Be a cyclist!
Be a star!
Be a climber!
Be an artist!
Then there are the open doors
With only some dark promise
could it be a place of whores
or maybe there’s a goddess!
Passages just passages
doors open upon illusions
each day a call from Lorelei
pulls people upto the rocks
and if…
for just a moment…
I contemplate unknown choices
passages not clearly mapped
dare I enter?
Bastet’s Pixelventures August 13, 2013
Bastet’s Pixelventures: The Shadow People | The Arkside of Thought by Sahm King
You were my first love
My prince charming
With a Zen spirit
You
Never talked a lot
Always ready with your smile
I would have married you
If you hadn’t married Mom
How I miss you so
July 14, 1932 – December 11, 2010
…Water is life
i am alone
reflections in seclusion
illusions of company, illusions of aloneness
dreams in infinite, uniqueness, vastness that is life…
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…life is that vastness, uniqueness, infinite in dreams
aloneness of illusions, company of illusions
seclusion in reflections
alone am i
Life is water…
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water the font of life
refreshing me constantly
through my eyes and skin
bracing beauty my delight
as I walk along the lake
For the We Drink Photo Challenge – 2
Through the Eye of Bastet 