eastern light
how time slips by
since your passing
© Xenia Tran
haikuKATHA Issue 10, August 2022
With warm thanks to Kala Ramesh, who encouraged me to write a new haiku to go with the header image, and create a haiga.
Wishing you all a blessed Wednesday and a peaceful rest of the week,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Clouds
cherry blossom
the whole of the moon
turns pink
© Xenia Tran
haikuKATHA Issue 10, August 2022
With warm thanks to Terri Hale French for her invitation to create haiku incorporating a song title.
The song that inspired my haiku was The Whole of the Moon by The Waterboys:
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and a peaceful rest of the week,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
Culloden Battlefield
fenced off
a highland cow feeds
near the clan stones
© Xenia Tran
Presence #73, July 2022
Cee invites us to connect to the present moment and Anne invites us to share our photographic groove. Connecting in a present moment to take a closer look and reflect on what I see runs like a thread through all my writing and photography.
Both haiku and photographs help me to pause and capture these moments and sometimes, such as in this case, the present moment connects me to a poignant moment in the past.
The above haiku is another one from my Culloden series, which has just been published in the July 2022 issue of Presence.
The header image is one I have shared before in a Silent Sunday post called Moorland Grazing. There was a timelessness about the scene that made me pause, reflect and sit down to write for a while.
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #211: What’s Your Photographic Groove
CFFC: Connects You to the Present Moment
We were delighted to learn that Chiaroscuro – Darkness and Light, the dVerse Anthology published in 2017, is going to the moon. It is one of the poetry anthologies selected by Dr Samuel Peralta to be enclosed in time capsules and launched to the Moon, as a message-in-a-bottle to the future.
The anthology contains a selection of poems written by over 100 poets from all over the world and includes two written by me: Grandma Alice, a poem I wrote for my grandmother’s 100th birthday, and Frozen Footsteps, a haibun written after a walk in Glenmore Forest with our beloved late dogs, Eivor and Pearl.
My grandmother was fascinated by the moon landings and anything to do with space and time. She used to dismantle old clocks and watches to study their inner workings and create ornaments and paperweights with them floating at their centre.
I can imagine her smiling where she is now and it is making everyone who loved her so happy to know that a poem about her is going to the moon. In their own way, Eivor and Pearl will be delighted about this too.
The Anthology will be part of The Polaris Collection, Dr Peralta’s payload associated with an Astrobotic Griffin/NASA VIPER mission, landing in the vicinity of the Lunar South Pole in November 2024.
You can read more about this collection here and more information about the Lunar Codex here.
Warm-hearted thanks to Dr Samuel Peralta for this wonderful gesture and for filling his amazing moon capsules with poetry and art from around the world.
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr; photograph of my grandmother by K H Seeger.
CFFC: Would Make A Friend Happy
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Memory
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #209: Surreal
Word of the Day Challenge: Timeless
gentle rain
tea is steeping
on the warmer
© Xenia Tran
The Asahi Shimbun, 3 June 2022
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
CFFC: Brings a Smile to Your Face
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Focus
day’s end
a cottage light glows
in the distance
© Xenia Tran
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word in June 2022 (Bouldery, Perched, Surging)
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: End
salmon sky –
poppies lean the past
into the half light
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere #131
CFFC: Landscapes or Waterscapes
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Half Light
their own nest
between rooftops
cherry blossom
© Xenia Tran
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 5:2, Spring-Summer 2022
A warm-hearted thank you to all of you who showed so much kindness and love after the loss of our beloved Eivor and Pearl last month. Your prayers and healing have brought us great comfort.
We had no intention of fostering or adopting another dog so soon until angels both in heaven and on earth brought a sweet elderly whippet into our lives whose owner had passed away unexpectedly.
We look forward to introducing her on our sister blog, Whippet Wisdom, early next week.
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Cee’s Flower of the Day
Your Daily Word Prompt: Catenate
first light
a surfer tries his luck
on the waves
© Xenia Tran
Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere #130
Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Achievement
Caledonian Canal and Loch Ness
morning cruise –
happy hospitality
for Nessie-hunters
© Xenia Tran
The Asahi Shimbun, 6 May 2022
We were not sure what we were seeing in the distance and cropped the image:
At first I thought it was a wave, then I wondered whether it was driftwood. Could it be Nessie? I am not sure what we are looking at here, so if you have any idea, please let me know!
Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful week ahead.
I am taking a short blogging break and will be back on Sunday 12 June 2022.
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge: Nautical Blue
Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #202: Minimalism – Maximalism
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