Today’s prompt from Carpe Diem is a place – Omsk in Siberia.
I found this a difficult prompt: I’ve never been to Russia so have no experience to draw on, but I’ve found pictures on the official website to give me an idea of what it’s like.
Coloured, onion domes,
office blocks, breeze-blown flags:
the Omsk summer skyline.
Again Chevrefeuille has posted a fascinating challenge on Carpe Diem.
The nowaki is a kind of windstorm. The name means ‘field dividing wind’ and describes they way it forms a path through fields of crops.
The following is my haiku on this destructive wind.
The nowaki roars;
paths of flattened stalks appear;
silence follows.
Once again there is a fascinating collection of haiku on the Carpe Diem site. Also a lot of links to some lovely poetry on the subject of ‘joyful’.
I found this a difficult prompt, but one well worth trying.
New snowflakes swirl over
the lawn. The snowman’s smile:
broad and joyful.
e a m harris 