We are taking a short blogging break to enjoy the fine weather and will be back on Wednesday 21 September 2022.
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and a blessed week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Weekly Prompts Weekly Colour Challenge: Greenish
CMMC: September Close-Up or Macro
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Mother
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge: Earth Story
Lochan Mor
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with love from Xenia xxx
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Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #178: You Choose
Lochan Uaine
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with love from Xenia xxx
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Sunday Stills: Ageless and Evergreen
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with love from Xenia xxx
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Water Found in Nature
grandpa’s lazybed
his potatoes still grow
in the corner
© Xenia Tran
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 4:2, Spring/Summer 2021
We are deeply honoured and delighted that the above haiku has also been included in the World Haiku Series 2021, with a beautiful Japanese translation by Mr Hidenori Hiruta.
settling down
three generations
of oxen
© Xenia Tran
The Asahi Shimbun, 5 February 2021
ascending moon
we graft the roots
of our evergreen
© Xenia Tran
The Asahi Shimbun, 19 March 2021
such beauty
following a butterfly
who knows the way
© 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
Cairngorms National Park
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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
(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.
Cairngorms National Park
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