Spring Night, Ink

Haiku: One Deep Breath, Prompt 89 theme: Ink

1. Tanka with digital art



how could I help it—
escaping with the spring moon
on this quilted night
somewhere a slow, shifting sound
and ink melts, slips over stone

DW Bender
untitled tanka 2000
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2. 2 Haiku

1.

spring nightfall
ink melts
over stone

tombée du jour
l'encre fond
sur la pierre

2.

back and forth
grinding ink slowly
the weight of my words

allant et venant
broyant l'encre lentement
le poids de mes mots

DW Bender, 2000
untitled haiku
published in Temps Libres/Free Times, 'Favorites'
Translated by Serge Tomé, Belgium

first azaleas

first azaleas—
how effortlessly hours pass
unnoticed

DW Bender
February 17, 2008

first azaleas—
yet I have wasted a day
viewing photographs!

DW Bender
February 17, 2008

and older spring haiku:

returning warmth—
so close I can only hear
your unspoken words

DW Bender
from From the Trees, haibun

winter rain...2008

winter rain...
again the sound of water
changes shape

DW Bender
Haiku, 2008

*first written as "summer rain..." for a photo, but this is winter, and we just had a winter rain last week. In other areas than Florida, the sound of water changes shape even more drastically, variably and noticeably.

A older "sound" tanka from 2001:

How could I help it?
escaping with the spring moon
on this quilted night...
somewhere a slow, shifting sound
and ink melts, slips over stone.

DW Bender
Tanka, February 12, 2001