Nirvana

Carpe Diem

March 15th prompt, #145 Nehane (Nirvana Ceremony, Buddha's Nirvana Anniversary)

through nature watching

in spring morning: Buddha's way:

self-discovery 

not questioning truth

surrendered by spring pure light

path to Buddha's shrine

near Buddha's temple

in spring light: blossoming trees:

Zen and poetry

NaHaiWriMo

March 15th prompt - paper

paper-thin spring shrine

in mid-March sunlight and breeze -

the first verdant tree

From the ashes

The serene spring

is rising from the ashes of last year

with shy steps

and growing strenght

from the awaking earth.

The small grasses 

in caressing breeze,

buds and blossoms 

in verdant trees

are now lighting my heart.

Have a nice weekend!

Carpe Diem - Butterflies; Writer,'s Digest - Descendence

I'll soon start to keep my haiku at different memes and challenges in the same post.


My haiku for Carpe Diem, a daily haiku. Today it's all about butterflies:

a stroll through the woods
in the winter cold and snow -
dreaming butterflies

For the Writer's Digest Poetic Asides Prompt nr. 212, a haiku sequence about descendence that I didn't post yet because they seem to have a problem.

Evolution

present becomes past:

sustained metamorphosis –

evolution key

Darwin's theory –

more than a controversy:

plain reality

humans admiring

some rare specimens at zoo:

chicken or egg first?

fossilized monkeys:

searching for the missing link,

some unknown species