Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Sunday Stills: Ageless and Evergreen
Silent Sunday: Glorious Green
Lochan Uaine
Tag: forest
Wordless Wednesday: Water of Life
Wishing you all a blessed Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Water Found in Nature
Haiku: Wonderful World
grandpa’s lazybed
his potatoes still grow
in the corner
© Xenia Tran
(Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 4:2, Spring/Summer 2021)
settling down
three generations
of oxen
© Xenia Tran
(Asahi Haikuist Network, The Asahi Shimbun, 5 February 2021)
ascending moon
we graft the roots
of our evergreen
© Xenia Tran
(Asahi Haikuist Network, The Asahi Shimbun, 19 March 2021)
such beauty
following a butterfly
who knows the way
© Xenia Tran
(Sharing Our Horizon, A Journey Through the Scottish Highlands
with Two Adopted Whippets by Xenia Tran)
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
A warm-hearted thank you to the editors of the Autumn Moon Haiku Journal and The Asahi Shimbun for featuring my haiku and putting these beautiful publications together.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #153: It’s a Wonderful World
Word of the Day Challenge: Treasure
Silent Sunday: Wild and Wonderful
Cairngorms National Park
Wishing you all a wonderful Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/1.8 – 1/1250 s – ISO 125, f/6.3 – 1/1250 s – ISO 720, f/5 – 1/1250 s – ISO 200 and f/2.8 – 1/1250 s – ISO 125.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #150: Let’s Get Wild
Puente Poetry: Presence
(Frank Bruce 1931 – 2009)
your words fade from
the headstone, the way you
returned to nature in this life
and after you join the stars
~ we sit with your presence ~
still lingering between
the Lesser Celandine
that point towards the light
you always followed
© Xenia Tran
This is my first attempt at writing a puente poem.
Wishing you all a peaceful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/1.8 – 1/2000 s – ISO 640, f/1.8 – 1/4000 s – ISO 640 and f/1.8 – 1/4000 s – ISO 100.
Puente is a modern poetry form created by James Rasmusson. The first stanza develops one aspect of a topic where you, line by line, work towards another aspect. The centre line is delineated by a tilde (~) and functions as a bridge that forms a couplet with both the last line of the first stanza and the first line of the second stanza. You can choose any number of lines, as long as the first stanza has the same number of lines as the second stanza. You can find more information about the form here.
dVerse Poetics: Build a Bridge
Word of the Day Challenge: Enable
Placing Poems is an online, interactive map that shares poems about new and imagined journeys away from the stifling reality of the pandemic. We are delighted that this poem now appears on this map. If you visit the Placing Poems website and select The Map, you can scroll up to the Scottish Highlands and find it under Cairngorms, Feshie Bridge, alongside many other poignant poems.
Wordless Wednesday: Magic Awakening
Cairngorms National Park
Wordless Wednesday: As Nature Unravels
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/60 s – ISO 160, f/2.8 – 1/80 s – ISO 320 and f/2.8 – 1/60 s – ISO 320.
Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere #53
Word of the Day Challenge: Natural
Tanka: Ambient
blackbirds sing
around the cobwebbed shed
a key turns
for a glimpse of you
tapping and chiselling wood
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/2.8 – 1/80 s – ISO 400, f/2.8 – 1/160 s – ISO 500 and f/2.8 – 1/80 s – ISO 250.
Ambient was first published in Ribbons, Fall 2020: Volume 16, Number 3. A very big thank you to Michael McClintock and the team at Ribbons for featuring my poem and putting this beautiful edition together.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #125: You Pick It
Your Daily Word Prompt: Ambient
Word of the Day Challenge: Architecture
Wordless Wednesday: A Small Eden
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/5.6 – 1/160 s – ISO 200, f/5 – 1/160 s – ISO 200 and f/5 – 1/160 s – ISO 100.
Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere #50
Wordless Wednesday: Along the Loch Shore
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX60 HS, Settings: f/5.6 – 1/1000 s – ISO 200, f/5 – 1/250 s – ISO 125 and f/4 – 1/1000 s – ISO 200.
Weekly Prompt Wednesday Challenge: Autumn Strolls
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Orange and Green
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