26 Jun 2016 28 Comments
in Challenges, Poems Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Magpie, wings
I’ve written about Magpies before, and this week’s prompt from TJ for his Haiku challenge was a beautiful photo of a lone magpie, with an additional prompt word of Wings.
Whenever I see magpies, that rhyme is in my head, about what the future holds, depending on the amount of birds you see, so this inspired my Tanka-style Haiku this week!
Magpie spread your wings
Fly and find your other half
You need to be ‘two’
I don’t want sorrow today
I need a little more joyRitu 2016
18 Jun 2016 29 Comments
in Challenges, Poems Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Cactus, dry, Haiku
Tj’s prompt today… An image of a cactus, or the word dry
I tried to use both…
Image from Pixabay
The ground, parched and dry
Yet still a source of beauty
Where cacti can thriveRitu 2016
12 Jun 2016 35 Comments
in Challenges, Poems Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, dew, Haiku
Yesterday TJ decided to shake up the format of his Haiku Challenge. it is no longer going to be just household items, but anything, and there will be not one prompt, but two: a word prompt and a photo prompt. Check it out here.
And this is my take…
Image from Pixabay
Glistening moisture
Quenching thirst of living things
Nature’s beverageRitu 2016
04 Jun 2016 16 Comments
in Challenges, Poems Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Iron, tanka
Saturday is TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge – and the prompt word is IRON.
Image from Google – Shuttestock
I thought of the irons and ironing in India when I have been to visit. There are obviously irons on India, and most households will have one, but there is this luxury that us in the western world would appreciate greatly!
Even though I love ironing, (really!) when the heat is hitting 40 degrees C, there is definitely a chance that I won’t want to stand there pressing clothes!
So this is when you phone the dhobi wala, or press wala. Basically the laundry, or ironing man.
He comes to your house with a bike that has a huge wooden table attached to the back of it, and a heavy coal fuelled iron, like the one in the image above, then he stand in your veranda and irons all your clothes for under £2-3!
Or if it is too hot,or you aren’t in a hurry, he takes your basket of clothes, and delivers them back to you later, fully ironed!
And they are ironed to perfection! You just have to be careful to explain if you have high fashion clothes that require creases in the places they are, or if you have jeans that want NO creases, because once that heavy iron hits your clothes, there is no going back crease-wise!!
So, onto my haiku (tanka) for today…
Therapy for me
A pile of un-ironed clothes
And a hot iron
Watching creases disappear
Satisfied – my job is done!Ritu 2016
Happy ironing folks!
21 May 2016 14 Comments
in Challenges, Poems Tags: #TJ's Household Haiku Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Footstool
This week TJ gave us the prompt of a footstool.
A quick initial haiku…
Life has worn you out
Come and rest your weary legs
Upon my smooth backRitu 2016
I don’t have one, as such, and could only think of the small embroidered one we bought my Mother-in-law this birthday. It’s cute, and has a little drawer in the side, as the children thought their grandma could do with a secret hiding place for her pens and glasses! But I wasn’t able to get the photo… maybe later this week.
Then I remembered that I do have one, but it’s not mine!
It belongs to the kids. A miniature armchair and footstool set that Lil Man was gifted on his 1st birthday, by my parents.
You’re never too young
To relax with your footstool
And your matching chair!Ritu 2016
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