haiku my heart: out of the mouths of babes

I am a fairy.
I am smaller than an ant.
I fly to the stars.


This haiku was written by Shavonne, age 5, in her Pre-K class. She enjoys writing, reading, dancing, and being a fairy.


Haiku my heart is the vision of Rebecca Brooks at "recuerda mi corazon." If you would like to participate, just post your haiku on Fridays with an accompanying photo on your blog and link back to recuerda mi corazon.

haiku my heart: thoughts from nature

"Your praying mantis
Will peel the passionfruit, Sir.
He's carnivorous."



First, he chirped a bit.
Getting no reply, he ate.
Being a gecko...



Swimming downstream--the
Dog in joy or following?
Self-contained? Attached?



Black-pearl caviar--
Some to be plucked and eaten,
Some to string on silk.



photos courtesy of Byron Kay, Big Island, HI


Haiku my heart is the vision of Rebecca Brooks at "recuerda mi corazon." If you would like to participate, just post your haiku on Fridays with an accompanying photo on your blog and link back to recuerda mi corazon.

haiku my heart

A Life Well Lived ~ Creative Writing Circle

Haiku by Kerry ~ Rose ~ Tara




Turtle in the sand,
Trapped and not moving forward:
She is laying eggs.

Photo courtesy of Byron Kay




My vision is clear.
I have my partner with me--
Together we see.





The color is red
Beginning to build power;
The center is black.


Haiku my heart is the vision of Rebecca Brooks at "recuerda mi corazon." If you would like to participate, just post your haiku on Fridays with an accompanying photo on your blog and link back to recuerda mi corazon.

postcards from paradise: support for Japan

In the dark of night,
The full moon beams brightly a
Ray of smiling, HOPE.


Please visit our team leader Noelle at http://theangelswearfins.blogspot.com.
Her heartfelt invitation to offer support and compassion for Japan awaits you.

Haiku my heart for the global community

Living off the sea









Welcoming us, their neighbors.











Spared, yet kneel to pray.


Photos courtesy of my free-diving family members Annabel Edwards and Jessica Wilson, taken in Okinawa, Japan, in 2010.


Okinawa, a cluster of islands south of Japan, was left virtually unscathed from the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor disasters. The Okinawans had the same instincts as we did: to pray at their many sacred sites for those suffering or lost farther north. The last photo shows their trying to save the earth from erosion.


Haiku my heart is the vision of Rebecca Brooks at "recuerda mi corazon." If you would like to participate, just post your haiku on Fridays with an accompanying photo on your blog and link back to recuerda mi corazon.

Wandering Angus

I love to think of Celtic mythology at this time of year and dredge up my favorite poems and stories by Yeats, Joyce, Heaney, etc. Last year I highlighted the Song of Wanderin' Angus (the Celtic god of love and youth) by Yeats; this year I found another lass thinking about Dream Angus, too.




". . . Will he come to me, Dream Angus,
Come quietly throug the evening light,
Come when I do not expect him, and I am sleepy,
Come when I am drowsy, when I am ready for rest;
Will he come to me, Dream Angus?

. . .



Will I see the birds about his head,
The birds that are his kisses?
Will I believe that each of us,
Even he who thinks himself unloved,
May be transformed, made different
By one who finds him marvelous? Will I think that?"
~by Alexander McCall Smith from Dream Angus







Slainte!





4 comments:
...louciao... said...
Such delightfully colourful and varied images. I raise a glass of Guiness to you!

March 11, 2011 1:26 PM
Margaret Pangert said...
May the Irish hills caress you,
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
Cheers!

March 11, 2011 8:54 PM
Diana said...
This was wonderful, I don't know how I missed it! Love Di ♥

March 12, 2011 6:47 AM
Margaret Pangert said...
Hi, Diana! Cheers! Love, Margaret

Prayers for Japan: mandala, a healing circle

An offering of mandalas--healing circles--for Mother Earth who is in turmoil;
For our Earth--who is herself a mandala which keeps us whole--we honor its
White pineapple, a mandala, its essential self at the center.



We offer the wholeness and harmony of your spider web, a labyrinthian mandala.



Mother Earth, plase accept my humble mandala of your four directions on the wheel: north, south, east, west.
In its center, my sacred self.

Photo of white pineapple by Byron Kay

beautiful Sundays, postcards from Paradise is the vision of Rebecca Brooks at "recuerda mi corazon." If you would like to participate in Prayers for Japan, just post your postcard on Sunday on your blog and link back to recuerda mi corazon.

haiku my heart

Ashes to ashes,





Unto dust shall thou return.





Diamonds in the sand.

Haiku my heart is the vision of Rebecca Brooks at "recuerda mi corazon." If you would like to participate, just post your haiku on Fridays with an accompanying photo on your blog and link back to recuerda mi corazon.

"My candle burns at both ends





It will not last the night;





But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -





It gives a lovely light."

~by Edna St. Vincent Millay in A Few Figs from Thistles

postcards from paradise

In honor of Rebecca who reminded me of the timeless beauty and grace of Mary who always has a smile and outstretched hand...









Dear Mother Mary:
Share with us the mysteries
Of life, death, passion.

beautiful Sundays, postcards from Paradiseis the vision of Rebecca Brooks at "recuerda mi corazon." If you would like to participate, just post your postcard on Sundays on your blog and link back to recuerda mi corazon.

haiku my heart

Crystalline clear brook
Flowing from its mountain source,
Not yet polluted.


Haiku my heart is the vision of Rebecca Brooks at "recuerda mi corazon." If you would like to participate, just post your haiku on Fridays with an accompanying photo on your blog and link back to recuerda mi corazon.

I look forward to sharing haiku every Friday with you!