Saturday Haiku: Summer Waters

an empty rowboat

on the still summer waters

entices dreamers

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Image: "Bathers at La Grenouillere," at the National Gallery, London, UK
Artist: Claude Monet
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1869



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Saturday Haiku: Autumn on the Seine

row boats on the shore

gently swaying with autumn

clear waters calling

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Image: "Autumn On The Seine At Argenteuil" (1873) at the High Museum of Art 
              Public Domain (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
Artist: Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on canvas



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Saturday Haiku: Winter

quietly the land

with snow-laden trees awaits

the lone bird in flight

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Image: The Road in front of Saint-Siméon Farm in Winter, 1867
Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Public Domain, courtesy of I Require Art


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Saturday Haiku: Morning Light

quietly the sun

brings rays of morning light

stillness on the bay

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Image: "Impression: Sunrise"
Artist: Claude Monet
Date: 1873
Medium: Oil on Canvas



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Masterworks Series: Sunflowers

Sunflower Celebration in Blank Verse*

She walks along the dampened garden path

To gather flowers for the entrance room.

The morning sun shines softly on the hill

Where grass still glistens from the heavy dew.

On ordinary days, the garden walk

Would calm her mind like gentle summer winds,

But on this day her thoughts are soaring high

Considering the guest to grace her home.

Her thoughts are set on welcoming her friend

Returning after years of work abroad.

That sweet connection latent in her heart

Now wakens with the thoughts of friendships past.

Shared memories would be the common ground,

Yet even in their separate stories from

The years apart, the glad communion would

Remain to forge new days of caring trust.

So now her eyes behold the yellow blooms

That call out beauty, friendship, life and peace.

She chooses boldly – nothing subtle here –

A lively brightness in a single vase.

                                                                    ~ CK

*Blank verse: "Unrhyming iambic pentameter, also called heroic verse. This 10-syllable line is the predominant rhythm of traditional English dramatic and epic poetry, as it is considered the closest to English speech patterns. Poems such as John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues, and Wallace Stevens’s “Sunday Morning,” are written predominantly in blank verse." (Definition from The Poetry Foundation)

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Image: "Sunflowers" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Claude Monet (French,1840–1926)
Date: 1881
Medium: Oil on canvas

                                                                                                                                             
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Saturday Haiku: Clearing Skies

clearing skies

a warm kitchen fire

heart’s delight

                 ~ CK

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Picture: The Promenade at Argenteuil II
Painting by Claude Monet


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Saturday Haiku: Seacoast

 

looking from the coast

blue waters and misty skies

unending vision

         

                                ~ CK

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Picture: Cliff near Pourville, by Claude Monet 

             Oil on canvas, 1882

             Public Domain

             Courtesy of WikiArt Visual Art Encyclopedia

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Saturday Haiku: Spring

     beneath new leaves

     comes a welcoming embrace

     of springtime fragrance

                                    ~ CK

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Picture: Springtime, by Claude Monet (oil on canvas)



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