L'aura del Campo

#7 tataki/ktanka/sashimi

tataki = haikuish with a place
sashimi = not necessarily a place
ktanka = 5 lines like a tanka

285 193a Omega / of rotting logs — alpha / of new life
286 193b Shimmer of / linden-light — shadow / of a magpie // tremble of leaf litter / on the wooden cross
287 193c Dead seagull / on the beach — wave / of laughter
288 193d Gathering of / clouds — thirsty flowers / send prayers
289 193e Grey clouds / moan to skies of / thirsty blues

193 Göteborg 9/july/18

290 194a Come sunshine! / Bees hungry among / the wildflowers
291 194b Thunderheads / cover the city — / the call to prayer
292 194c Ships from some- / where — ancient memories / of the First Cat
293 194d Ignore the cloud — / white sheets bleach / in the sunshine
294 194e Fluffy white sheets, / white clouds, white bleating / gulls — Istanbul
295 194ee Bleating seagulls, / fluffy sheets, bleached clouds — / Istanbul
296 194f Click of cups / and plates — waiters cry out — there's / an empty table
297 194g Days become hours be / come minutes — moments lin- / ger with a breeze

194b-g Istanbul 16/July/2018

298 195a As sunset shadows / creep over a bed of be- / gonias — bird song
299 195b Worn out by / carpet sellers — now slouched / on a bench
300 195c Night falls on / terraces and the chatter / of gulls

195abc 7/16

301 196a Which rattles me / worse: screech of gull or / carpet sellers
302 196b Siren calls of / the minarets — white crescent / moon on red
303 196c Night falls alike / on the squawking gulls / and mewing cat
304 196d Let the breeze / enter the open window / of my heart
305 196e Time has washed / away all smells — feet / have smoothed the stone // Hearts soften to Love's song / Will I heed it?
306 196f Golden arcade, / tears of worn marble / doors open — shut
307 196g Marble columns strong / enough to outlive our birth, our death, / our mortal sins

196abcde 17.july.2018
196efg 18.july.2018