Choice Haiku ~ Karina Klesko, US

 

 

Light A Candle   Christmas Candles by Photobucket 9470195-504-372     the first birthday— first time on his feet gazing at a single flame # 08. Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic, CR around the table... three generations in the candles’ glow # 10. Cara Holman, US Sunday Worship Candles of Joy and Sorrow she speaks in ASL # 12. Neal Whitman, US deepening the silence —a wax candle # 17. Tonka Lovric, CR drip after drip wax from the candle... a haiku moment # 26. Keith A. Simmonds, TT first meeting... a candle light bonds our shadows # 31. Ramesh Anand, MY 32,34,37, the steady flames of tea candles my mother’s prayers # 32. Alegria Imperial, CA among mom’s jewels baptismal candles # 34. Alegria Imperial, CA Christmas the colorful candles light up Bethlehem # 37. Priyanka Bhowmick, IN bee wax dripping shaped in teardrops a burning Good-bye! # 39. Munia Khan, BD altar candles each flicker a sigh # 42. Alegria Imperial, CA prayer candles from the Virgin’s robe the essence of roses # 44. Alegria Imperial, CA quelled candle he straightens the cold limbs of a battered child # 45. Karen O'Leary, US seventieth birthday cake his big sigh blows out the candles # 47. Munia Khan, BD red, white and gold… candles almost consumed by time # 52. Willie R. Bongcaron, PH two decades later candlelight in the streets— the town of Vukovar # 53. Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic, CR Sunday offering… candles, roses and prayers for our soldiers # 56. Willie R. Bongcaron, PH The glory and the light of the faith hide. Today even the worms are wise # 59. Smajil Durmisevic,BA Listen to this Pod Cast from The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago Christmas Around the World from Chicago Museum of Science and Industry     cherry twigs blooming in bowls of water candlelight ~Karina Klesko, US   candlelit study three shadows chase each other around the wall #61. Chen-ou Liu, CA rice paper moon another candle on the cake # 62. Cara Holman, US a broken wooden cross in the prayer book # 63. Chen-ou Liu, CA a dark winter night a candle her only succour # 64. Sandra Martyres, IN thinking of that spring we met and another spring… # 65. Chen-ou Liu, CA alone with my dog the scent of Christmas candles lingering # 67. Chen-ou Liu, CA alone at dusk I add one more candle to the cake # 69. Chen-ou Liu, CA solemn prayer all the candles glimmer in the church # 71. Willie R. Bongcaron, PH church service an altar server raises his candle snuffer # 75. Willie R. Bongcaron, PH in the sky countless votive candles # 78. Danica Bartulović he takes a deep breath forty candles on his cake to be blown out # 84. Sandra Martyres, IN light a candle say a prayer God is everywhere # 86. Sandra Martyres, IN by the candlelight raindrops so dense # 87. Tonka Lovric, CR candlelit Christmas tree in the basement apartment my shadow and I # 93. Chen-ou Liu, CA goodbye darkness a candle lights up his life # 94. Sandra Martyres, IN floating lamps— ancestors’ voyage from Kalinga to Java, Sumatra # 101. P K Padhy, IN weaving down a valley of darkness a dragon of candle light # 106. Bernard Gieske, US a burned-out candle at the mortician's store window # 111. Juhani Tikkanen, FI in the cave a tiny candle aflame giant monsters on the wall # 112. Bernard Gieske, US in the igloo burning midnight oil night lessons # 114. Bernard Gieske, US a candle burning slowly —living longer # 116. Ljudmila Milena Mršić, CR burnt candles— where does the darkness hide the light? # 118. P K Padhy, IN Candle light scent of tuberose on rustling silk # 121. Karin Anderson, AU candle on the sill— a moth circles into the Big Dipper # 124. Cezar-Florin Ciobîcă, RO candlelight how pale the moon looks # 126. Stella Pierides, DE / UK power cuts in this wind a candle burns too fast # 128. Stella Pierides, DE / UK electric candles— so, I record my prayer # 130. Stella Pierides, DE / UK he blows out all eighty birthday candles— the year ends # 134. Yamadori, US Eve of Christmas— a candle burning at the window # 136. Maria Tirenescu, RO power break— reading her last letters by candlelight # 137. Cezar-Florin Ciobîcă, RO prayer candle— she puts her lips to the icon # 138. Stella Pierides, DE / UK together they light their wedding candle— incense fills the air # 140. Yamadori, US luminaries light the path to a living crèche— Hallelujah # 141. . John Daleiden, US