Saturday, February 25, 2023

Double Haiga: True Blue

Photo by Cara Hartley/Ornery Owl
Taken at the Denver Aquarium on May 7, 2017

Text art and design elements added by the photographer (me) using pixlr.com
You are welcome to use either image, but please credit me.

stick to your real friends
at your side on rough waters
riding out the storm

Free use image by Anita Austvika on Unsplash


Text art and design elements added to the original photo by me
(Cara Hartley/Ornery Owl)
You are welcome to use this image, but please credit both me and the photographer.

forget those who float away
in the slightest breeze
petals of dying flowers

Sharing with








Here's the link in case you can't see the player.

If you don't have enough death, doom, or sludge in your life, this mix should take care of that deficiency.

I recommend giving the comments a miss. They get pretty dudebro-y. There's one particular specimen who totally grinds my gears. He could be taking the piss and I might be missing it because it's become very difficult to tell the difference between parody and reality these days. However, as a female hard rock and metal fan who put up with plenty of crap from chauvinistic male metalheads over the years, I am not amused by his referring to women as sluts. 

To be clear, when I say fan, I do not mean groupie. I was all in for the music. I never attempted to hook up with any band members. Sure, some of them looked pretty good, but I've never been a fly-by-night kind of woman.

Anyway, these long mixes make formatting blog posts a lot less boring. Give it a try!



Sunday, February 5, 2023

Lonely Soul

 

Photo taken 7 May 2017 at Denver Aquarium
Copyright Cara Hartley/Ornery Owl


you pass by each day
nobody sees or hears you
alone in a crowd

notes

It's been too long since I created a Haiga, or any kind of poem, really. I don't imagine anyone missed me, but I missed poetry.

The poet created the Haiga using one of her own photos and the software at pixlr.com

You are welcome to share either the photo or the Haiga, but please credit me.

The Haiga was inspired by a prompt from Carpe Diem Haiku.

I am sharing today's work with:





Here's some music to listen to while you read the poem. You're welcome to grab a coffee, tea, or whatever while you read and listen. From your own supply. I'll probably be a bit unsettled if you show up at my place demanding coffee or tea.

You know the drill if you've been here for a while. Here's the link in case you can't see the embedded player.