For The Weekend

Suzanne Valadon

Renoir

Suzanne Valadon was a famous painter's model painted by Renoir and Toulouse  - Lautrec. She was not only a talented painter and a beauty of her day, but  the mother of Utrillo, also a famous painter.

actress and models
frowned on by the bourgeoisie
suzanne did not care
her life is written in books
no one remembers her critics

The Yowie is a mythical boogeyman who roams the  Australian Outback.There have been several eye witnesses  who swear on a stack of bibles that it is true (chuckles )....probably having just imbibed several dozen schooners at the local pub.

Farm At Auvers.. Van Gogh

a beautiful mind
to see the world through your eyes
just stunning - thank you

Theatre Sports

the world is a stage
we all wear so many masks
to suit the occasion

Doormats Arise ...Take Up Thy Beds And Walk !

mid week motif : 3ww


be not docile
speak out
be fearless
don't allow anyone
to inflict suffering
on your children
go out with a bang
rather than a whimper

she is sending  this message
in her mother's tongue

il n'est point de bonheur sans liberte, ni de liberte sans courage !

Personne n'est plus arrogant envers les femmes,plus aggressif ou meprisant qu'un homme inquiet pour sa virilite !


Renoir


ca ceci n'est pas a doormat !
elle est femme




ARRETEZ LA VIOLENCE CONTRE LES FEMMES!

Distraught

collage by Rall

what
was i
thinking of

Prima Ballerina....Maya Plisetkaya

dancing at fifty
brilliance en pointe
grace personified

Paradiso Perduto

Svetlana Sapozhnikova

watching from the bar
paradiso perduto
awash in a pink haze

First Kiss

carpe diem haiku kai





he kissed my hand
wrote 'i love you' on my bare leg
i still remember

Haiku Horizons

it was my birthday
best present i ever had
not even gift wrapped

Love Downstairs

uncut version
" Downton Abbey "

mr carson
happy in his post
as head butler
no longer perched
on the precipice
of desperation
trying to hide his feelings
yearning for mrs hughes
placed delicate tiny rose petals
on a polished silver tea tray
to surprise her
dreaming of holding her close
under his umbrella in the rain
down by the river

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Dragonfly

the dragonfly too
holds hand in prayer
rice blossoms

(Kobayashi Issa)





Leovi - La Fotografia Efectista Abstracta


the dragonfly lands
setting rice blossoms aglow
hovering with love

With Thanks

Collage Of David Hockney by Rall



i remember creating this
on a grey lonely sunday afternoon
all those years ago

before the time of the internet
when visual art
was my mainstay sanity

i have been blessed with these gifts
that keep  meds and white coats at bay
so thank you

again
and again 

For The Weekend

Dashing Away With A Smoothing Iron

3WW

just because
i am thinking
about my darling nana
dashing away
with her smoothing iron

pink cheeked contented nana
when her arms wrapped about you
there was not a safer place
in the world



the singer treadle evolved
into an electric one
the gas copper into
a washing machine

but a dish washer
non non non non
she would say
with sober inflection



 

Through A Glass Darkly

 Susan Chast's Mid Week Motif.


ingenious
creative  
the artist
his fingers dance
delicate fairy steps
on the rims of wine glasses
lined up in rows



lined up in rows
christians
about to be beheaded
the sea - red stained glass
washing on to the shore


http://myocn.net/isis-beheads-21-coptic-orthodox-christians-people-cross/

Wabi Sabi For Carpe Diem

sea jewels on display
snorkeling in the rock pool
no greater wealth

Les Temps Perdus

magic memories
bathing under the stars
hot tropical nights

Henri Rousseau

carpe diem haiku kai

a customs official
dreams in orange on a
cold winter's night

Arigato

 Per - Olov Kindgren

arigato maestro
for spinning a dream
through your finger tips
breathing life hope and love
raindrops on a parched desert

Wordle 48 MindLoveMisery's Menagerie

altitude plunge leather justify chime combustible
straddle alliance trundle crevice masticate vision

a vision in a black leather jacket
straddling a harley masticating gum
hares around the mountain roads
at high altitude plunging into a crevice
the bike ending in a combustible heap

an alliance of bravado and recklessness
is no justification for an early death
the grave digger trundles from one plot to another
as the church bells chime in the distance

Bright Spark

Haiku Horizons

she's a bright spark
except for choosing husbands
or maybe not



is this worth a
290 million
divorce settlement

Mankind

Haiku Horizons


a spark that led to
the garden the fall and a
destructive species

Sunday Evening

the rocks are still warm
we wolf down fish and chips
ravenous
having been in the water for hours
the girl in the bright pink cap
is still out there

fearless swimmer
beautiful overarm strokes
powering through the waves
i am relieved when i see her
clamber over the rocks

we look at the last of the sunset
marvel  at the sky
this has been a perfect summer
we know why we keep on
coming back here.

One Way Trip

carpe diem haiku kai

train to nowhere
no one waved goodbye
clickety clack

Liaison

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai



Wet Day ..Walt Withers

a rendez vous
around the corner
his heart  bursting

Haydn's Farewell Symphony For The Weekend

Sayonara Mister Linky

If you don't hear from me
for a while  on links
it is not because i have
been eaten by a shark
(lot of them around this swimming season)

Mister linky has decided to make
most of the sites I visit
FORBIDDEN ( You do not have access to this server )
I know I am already banned from 3 sites
( at least that I know of, there may be more of course )

Dverse
Poets Pantry /Poets United
Poetry Jam

with reference to the following sites
I am not always able to access
a link which includes even
viewing the list of submissions

Mindlovemisery's Menagerie
Midweek Motif /Poets United
Three Word Wednesday

The only sites I can still access
without a problem are
Haiku Horizons
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai 

so Rall's poetic presence
is going to be significantly
reduced about cyberspace
and as a result she will be forced
to engage in tasks she has seriously neglected
because she would rather write and read poems
than do anything else she is supposed to be doing:)



She will still post regularly 
but because mister linky widget only intermittently appears
with the list of names on most  poetry sites she visits
she will be unable to read your poems and
sadly you will have to forego her erudite and scintillating comments:)
until the blue frog reappears again ...croaking
Add Link



so to most of you
cheery bye
&
toodle pip

Cold Line Up

paper thin walls
glow of a candle
shoes lined up outside

Tall Poppies

shimmer of poppies
parasols hats and gloves
ma arriere grandmere

je regard ma grandmere
comme une petit fille
bonjour tristesse encore



off with their heads
favourite aussie pastime
tall poppy syndrome

A Mozart Moment

Wabi Sabi Writing Technique For Carpe Diem


east meets west
mitsuko uchida
revels in mozart

unknown and forgotten
on the broken train track
october 42

Snapshots Of Love

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you... Rumi




she never did find you
only shadows of you
she gave up the search long ago
when she read the label properly
prototype


\
catrin welzstein

face reality
she is just not a bear person
love's a two way trip



this is part of it...blistering rows
peeling paint off the walls
mount vesuvius




some lovely moments
when things are going well
and the waters are calm






who knows what keeps
them together
i think they call it love



love can be found
in unlikely situations
even somewhat reluctantly
with a certain resignation

Three Word Wednesday

frown devious venomous
three words that would make
a good hate poem

life is far too short
chortles guffaws cackles
are a better idea


laughing aside
one hundred and twenty three of you
in the richest country on earth
die daily because you do not have
a free national health care system

at least your president
is fighting to get one for you
whereas 
our mad monk is fighting to get rid of ours

Orphelia in Hats

mindlovemisery's menagerie wordle 47




















painting lezley saar


orphelia in an elegant shawl
and dented straw hat
made soft  thick syrupy ripples
as she paddled up the canal
throwing baggage, scripture books
petitions to ban the oubliette
overboard
improvising a song as she rowed along
humming and laughing to herself
as the men in the white coats
waited on the  bank

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

basho's lovely frog
in the future will no longer
cling to my screen door

he will become extinct
destroyed by fracking and mining
in this region

i will miss
his comforting croaks
in duet with  crickets
the signature tune for summer nights
on the star strewn Liverpool Plains

croak croak basho boy
plop merrily in  puddles
while you still can

Royalty

pointing is rude
royalty the exception
they can do anything



there's tony abbott
he gave me a knighthood
what an idiot



who is that woman
she is wearing green as well
off with her head




i'm warning you charles
anymore mistresses and
funding will be cut



i'm heading this way
if mary queen of scots is there
i'm ignoring her

Offertory

the bells tinkle
heads bow eyes closed
2000 years sigh

All Creatures Great And Small

we love God's creatures
great and small 
especially our feathered friends

would be nice
to have a sweet birdie like this
i must get one

FOR THE WEEKEND

A Starry Night For Vincent

carpe diem

he clung to the bars
in love with the blue and gold
vowed it would be his 


vincent got his wish
one hundred years later
after his death
he would never know

his portrait of Dr Gachet sold for
$148.6 million dollars in 1990