Tackle It Tuesday, back to basic

As every week I write my own haiku post for Tackle It Tuesday. So I will do that also for this week's theme back to basic. The classical form isn't really my cup of tea, but ... well I can't stay behind if I ask my visitors and my haiku friends to write a haiku in the classical form.

So let's do this:

I'm paralyzed

as bitten by a Black Mamba -

awesome sunset

The Black Mamba is one of the most poisonous snakes on Mother Earth's surface. One bit of his teeth will paralyze you in seconds of time and can be your death.
In our country we have what we call 'Adder' and I think in English you call it a Viper and the 'Ratelslang' or Ratle snake who are poisonous, but not as poisonous as the Black Mamba.

This haiku is a classical one, but the season isn't well caught in this one, maybe Summer, maybe Spring as I would say according to the awesome sunset.
Again the deeper meaning is laying in nature and the care we have to take for Mother Earth. As we have to watch out for the Black Mamba, we can see also the awesome sunset. The danger and the beauty of Mother Earth.

Well ... see you next week when the theme for Tackle It Tuesday shall be Aleph.

Tackle It Tuesday, "paint the picture"

Also shared on: Haiku My Heart

For this week's Tackle It Tuesday I have given my dear haijin friends a inspirational picture. Of course I need to write my own haiku for this "paint the picture".
So here is mine and it's written in the Spirit of Basho, although he wasn't familiar with the cascading haiku-form, I have used that form.




Monastery Thessaloniki Greece

 in the garden
of the monastery
silent for God

silent for God
monks in deep meditation
between roses

between roses
the sound of a fountain
in the garden



Well ... do you like this cascading one? Please ... send me your feed-back on this one.

Tackle It Tuesday, Exposure

There are several statues of Matsuo Basho, so you can say he's "exposed" around the world. This weeks prompt for Tackle It Tuesday is "exposure".

near Matsushima (*)

the Master exposed to the weather

Basho's statue

Basho's statue

covered with fresh fallen snow

exposed

(*) Matsushima is one of the places which Basho visited when he was on his road to the High North.

See you next week

Tackle It Tuesday, Magnolia

I have to share this with you all my haiku friends. It just came up in my mind and I had to write it down. This weeks prompt is Magnolia. A wonderful tree when it blooms, I always feel sad when the blossoms of the Magnolia fall.

tears in my eyes
my Magnolia is losing her flowers
making me sad


making me sad
every year again
blossoms fall


blossoms fall
after a glorious time
tears in my eyes

Credits: Magnolia tree

I hope this cascading haiku is in the spirit of Basho, my role model and my spiritual master.