Grassland sentinel through harvests past
slumbering guardian of Fall
echoing autumnal toil
timbers of the heartland
prairie legacy
ghost in the veldt
summer sun
silenced
soil
- Stalled Eternity
Tag Archives: Harvest
Further
Frosted winter landscape
Faintly reflected heat
Farmers canvas ….. asleep
Frescoes of stilled cobalt
Faraway memories
Finding self ….. whilst dreaming
Further away than ….. Time
Photo from Eyes of a Dragon – Crystalline Memoirs
A favourite winter walk in Northern Alberta. What mysteries await ….. around the bend?
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Pleiades: This titled form was invented in 1999 by Craig Tigerman, Sol Magazine’s Lead Editor. Only one word is allowed in the title followed by a single seven-line stanza. The first word in each line begins with the same letter as the title. Hortensia Anderson, a popular haiku and tanka poet, added her own requirement of restricting the line length to six syllables.
Background of the Pleiades: The Pleiades is a star cluster in the constellation Taurus. It is a cluster of stars identified by the ancients, mentioned by Homer in about 750 B.C and Hesiod in about 700 B.C. Six of the stars are readily visible to the naked eye; depending on visibility conditions between nine and twelve stars can be seen. Modern astronomers note that the cluster contains over 500 stars. The ancients named these stars the seven sisters: Alcyone, Asterope, Celaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope, and Tygeta; nearby are the clearly visible parents, Atlas and Pleione. The poetic form The Pleiades is aptly named: the seven lines can be said to represent the seven sisters, and the six syllables represent the nearly invisible nature of one sister.
(The above explanation from Shadow Poetry)
Thanks again to Kira at The Unpoet’s Poems for introducing me to this and other Poetry Forms.
Weary
Where harvest efforts sleep
Why patience means ….. to trust
Winterkill avoided
With golden reservoirs
Weathered prairie giants
Weary sentinels ….. past
Who will honour their runes?
Photo from Eyes of a Dragon – Prairie Ghost
Most prairie elevators in Alberta are now gone. Replaced by distant, centralized hubs of concrete and metal. These iconic structures defined rural communities and no longer stand vigilant, protecting harvested abundance, ultimately shared by all. These truly are Prairie Ghosts.
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Pleiades: This titled form was invented in 1999 by Craig Tigerman, Sol Magazine’s Lead Editor. Only one word is allowed in the title followed by a single seven-line stanza. The first word in each line begins with the same letter as the title. Hortensia Anderson, a popular haiku and tanka poet, added her own requirement of restricting the line length to six syllables.
Background of the Pleiades: The Pleiades is a star cluster in the constellation Taurus. It is a cluster of stars identified by the ancients, mentioned by Homer in about 750 B.C and Hesiod in about 700 B.C. Six of the stars are readily visible to the naked eye; depending on visibility conditions between nine and twelve stars can be seen. Modern astronomers note that the cluster contains over 500 stars. The ancients named these stars the seven sisters: Alcyone, Asterope, Celaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope, and Tygeta; nearby are the clearly visible parents, Atlas and Pleione. The poetic form The Pleiades is aptly named: the seven lines can be said to represent the seven sisters, and the six syllables represent the nearly invisible nature of one sister.
(The above explanation from Shadow Poetry)
Thanks again to Kira at The Unpoet’s Poems for introducing me to this and other Poetry Forms.
Harvest
Honest carver of earth
Harkened to Helios
Hidden summer treasures
Heydays of awned petals
Harvested aurous seeds
Hail each tempered nugget
Humble rewards of ….. Life
Photo from Eyes of a Dragon – Winter Grain Bins
About Eyes of a Dragon
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Pleiades: This titled form was invented in 1999 by Craig Tigerman, Sol Magazine’s Lead Editor. Only one word is allowed in the title followed by a single seven-line stanza. The first word in each line begins with the same letter as the title. Hortensia Anderson, a popular haiku and tanka poet, added her own requirement of restricting the line length to six syllables.
Background of the Pleiades: The Pleiades is a star cluster in the constellation Taurus. It is a cluster of stars identified by the ancients, mentioned by Homer in about 750 B.C and Hesiod in about 700 B.C. Six of the stars are readily visible to the naked eye; depending on visibility conditions between nine and twelve stars can be seen. Modern astronomers note that the cluster contains over 500 stars. The ancients named these stars the seven sisters: Alcyone, Asterope, Celaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope, and Tygeta; nearby are the clearly visible parents, Atlas and Pleione. The poetic form The Pleiades is aptly named: the seven lines can be said to represent the seven sisters, and the six syllables represent the nearly invisible nature of one sister.
(The above explanation from Shadow Poetry)
Thanks again to Kira at Wrestling Life for introducing me to this and other Poetry Forms.
Guardians Haiku 俳句
slumbering treasure
solstice shifts to equinox
chilled autumnal toil
Winter Bloom Tanka 短歌
Rustic sleight of hand
formations of straw cadets
rural armouries
breaths of Augusts past, arise
╬ unleash wintery desires ╬
Barn Solstice Tanka 短歌
§ Murmuring petals §
scorned as harvest worthy gold
each has but one reach
spectrums of boundless colour
rural timber nods in awe
Straw Solstice Nonet
¤ Lone silvery arctic pasturage ¤
awaiting a snowy harvest
bound equinox of patience
white hot solstice of love
beckoning a heart
captured within
erotic
summer
° heat °
Moon Frost Tanka
◊ Crystalline memoirs ◊
lost rural geometry
pale frozen farmscapes
lunar rime trumps solar zeal
fog bound distant horizon
Wintertide Gold Nonet
~ Baleful stare from sweltering summer ~
frozen ground ‘neath snowy conceal
awaken golden harvest
listen to each snowflake
soulfully unique
onliest sound
straw circle
never
ends
Barn Fibonacci
∞ peer ∞
close,
atop
each summit
attendant gargoyles
protecting those who love the land
Barn Haiku
∞ weakened alcazar ∞
weathering all, save for Time
you have earned ….. Respect
Last Beach Nonet
Tofino sand scrunching ‘neath his boots
far from his beloved grain farm
his eye on the horizon
the soul of a farmer
the heart of a dad
family first
always there
heartbeats
∞ Dad ∞
Farmers Nonet
∞ Farmers Nonet ∞
Dust motes floating ‘neath xanthous twilight
dancing to the beat of hard work
pausing only to refuel
dew transforms into frost
pace matters far more
than worrying
about dark
thunder
clouds
Harvest Custodians Fibonacci
∞ old ∞
friend
rusting,
sepia
equinox harvests
metal and wood custodians
≈ Inspired by the ‘Fib’-ulous imagination of MindRetrofit7 ≈
Fall Harvest Haiku
∞ amber sunset fades ∞
harvesting our future ~ now
not yet done ~ not yet
Rural Stonehenge Haiku
∞ abandoned demesnes ∞
mythical western Stonehenge
lost prairie icons
Harvest Mirror Haiku
∞ harvest reflections ∞
~ past present future unsure ~
combining them all
Waterpump Fibonacci
∞ pure ∞
wet
nectar
underfoot
quenches thirsty crop
rusting memoirs of farmers toil
Harvest Fibonacci
∞ Till ∞
field
is bare
of durum
silent owl glides ‘oer
parallel wakes of rhyming straw
Harvest Haiku II
∞ sweating farmer’s brow ∞
challenging the dewy morn
harvesting by moon
Harvest Haiku I
….. and now for something completely different!
I am fascinated by Haiku and other similar poetic forms such as Fibonacci, Senryū, etc.. These are my first attempts…ever! I am also including photographs I have taken myself, as they provide inspiration for these new scratchings of mine!
I presently live on an island, but my dragon lineage is most assuredly rural……….
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∞ arsenal for wheat ∞
recurring autumn labours
rural Xanadu
Memoirs of a Dragon 