Haiku: Courage, Shimmer And Four More...

"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roof, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."  Khaled Hosseini

Haiku: Courage, Shimmer And Four More...

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Mount Fuji's breath, ligths
Shimmering gently at night
Moon and sea toast you...

Sweet memories rise
Fifth Station treats and the hike
To summit's beauty...

Immortal mountain
A place of scenic beauty
Fujisan's delight...




This week, the prompt/words are: Sugar and Shimmer

What is a haiku?
 As Leo of Haiku Heights aptly explains, a haiku is a three line poem. It shows what the author wants us to understand from it, rather than tell it directly. The limitation to a haiku is seventeen syllables. It can be at maximum, that much. If you wish to go by the traditional Japanese structure even with English haiku, you can use a 5-7-5 syllable, or 3-5-3 syllable structure





I've combined two weeks worth of Haiku to help keep me on track and up to date with the group. I took some time out to work on my other blog and I'm delighted to be back writing and reading haiku with my  blog friends here. Do you have more than one blog? How do you manage your blogs? I'm curious to know.

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."  Mark Twain

Haiku: Courage, Shimmer And Four More...

Courage comes to town
When fear is faced, called a lout
Till then, we ponder...

A Rouge flower dream
dew drops gather for a kiss
Each kiss, a flower...



Today, the words are Courage, Rouge Flower, Castle, Forsythia

What is Carpe Diem?  Blog Owner, Kristjaan Panneman,  describes it as:  "a weblog on haiku. It's a new daily haiku meme where you can write a classical or non-classical haiku on a given prompt. Haiku is an ancient Japanese poetry form. A haiku has three short lines and describes a short moment (as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water). Mostly a haiku counts 5-7-5 syllables and is sometimes called 'counted verse.'"





Again, I have combined/added a number of the prompts I missed from Kristjaan's Carpe Diem on this post, and then, I've added the rest I missed, during my time away, to my other post: Haiku: Wisdom, Hope And A Troika... I could have easily started with the most recent offering but, I love practicing each new word; it helps me improve. Plus, this will afford me the chance to play catch up too. Hope you enjoy the choices and please check out the rest on my other post! Thank you.  More Below.

Positive Kismet: What Difference Does Our Attitude Make?

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts... I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes." Victor E. Frankl (Man's Search For Meaning)

Kismet means fate/destiny. Some believe fate is predetermined, others believe that we have a measure of freewill, and there are those souls amongst us who see it as one serendipitous event after another with periodic hurricanes thrown in to keep us humble. Regardless of what we believe, one thing is certain: our attitude accompanies us on every path we travel and serves as judge and jury to our actions; we must choose wisely.

As humans, do we have negative and positive thoughts? Sure do.

Do we have a choice which way our thoughts/actions go? Yes.

Do our thoughts influence our actions/attitude?  You bet.

Does it take great courage to focus on developing a positive attitude? Yep

If we could focus on a preferred way of thinking and acting, which would we choose?

The point is that some associate positive anything with the airy fairy, la-di-da, delude yourself about life set. Having a positive perspective is about courageous, logical, common sense actions that empower and uplift us and others around us – we are powerful beings in a challenged world. Imagine if Edison believed that we were destined to spend the rest of our lives living by candles and oil lamps instead of the bright lights we enjoy in our homes today? Darkness doesn’t have to be a permanent state or condition.