Tag: Haiku

Posted in Haiga, Haiku, Haiku Horizons Weekly Prompt, May 2016

Skipping Stones

Posted on by Leonas Lines
skipping stones on the river--Haiku
Original Poetry by Leona J. Atkinson ©2016
Image By Killy Ridols (Patagonia) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

I grew up in the Midwest, in the country, and my childhood home was very near to Des Plaines River.  My brother and I spent many of our youthful days at the river.   In the summer we would be fishing and skipping stones, and in the winter ice skating.
This week’s Haiku Horizon Prompt “skip” caused me to remember those fun times we had trying to skip stones across the river. 🙂

Haiku Horizons Weekly Challenge:  Week #117  Prompt: Skip

Little did I know that there are actually “Stone Skipping Championships”!
Visit this LINK to watch a man skip a stone 51 times across the water to win the world record!

Posted in April 2016, Haiga, Haiku, NaPoWriMo 2016

The Flowers

Posted on by Leonas Lines
tulip field--french--Haiku
Original Poetry and Photograph by Leona J. Atkinson ©2016
based on what I saw in the last line of this French poem that was titled:
“Suite” (from Le Dit des couleurs, 2003)

This is the French poem
les fleurs viennent
de l’envers de l’île
et y retournent

This is its English translation
the flowers come
from the island’s underside
and go back there