Haiku Sunday – A Collaboration of Photos and Words

So much madness

in the streets of life and only

so little solace

(Photo by Juliet Housewright from her upcoming blog SCHMEE JOURNEYS)

Lace curtains could never

recover from what they have seen 

them do to each other

Photo by Mike Fiveson - photographer and author of the exceptional blog -

Mike’s Look at Life  – Mike’s work and talent inspire my work each day. Follow Mike’s journey through life’s doorways and be ennobled.

The day was opaque

before he burrowed through the pillow

to find her sleeping

In the most banal

of images there is a story

hiding inside us

they called him king Arthur

because he was the bravest wasp

and broke the glass prison

he left his pants on

the stairs as they loved in the

doorway and the floor

confessions of a priest

often fall on the ears of 

a faceless image

he always played close

to home but once he left the confines

discovering it was lies

For Cara today

he thought as he drew color

from the image here

Blue blue blue blue blue

he whistled as he pushed the levers left

leaving only the blue

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61 thoughts on “Haiku Sunday – A Collaboration of Photos and Words

  1. Reblogged this on Tracey in Maine.

  2. “For Cara today

    he thought as he drew color

    from the image here”

    . . . . . . . *sigh*

    Sometimes looking at something lovely really does soothe the soul. Thank you, Michael. This picture — all of them! — are simply stunning! Your stories, deriving from behind a lens, are captivating in the most transcendental of ways.

    I agree with Lori: Juliet’s picture at the top is beautiful. Please extend my compliments to her. The ability to take the humble leaf and spin her beauty so that she purports majesty; not easy, I would imagine. I am excited for her journey through blogging. With you as her guide, she cannot go wrong. :)

    Happy Monday, friend.

    • Happy Monday to you and thank you so much for your comments. Juliet will be so pleased to get this kind of feedback. I am always grateful for your support and I am glad you enjoyed my little shout out to “this little light”

  3. Lace curtains and pants on stairs are my favorites :) I love how the photos inspire the words – it would be a fun party game!

  4. Christina

    Love them all! Definitely brightens my Monday!

  5. Beautiful collage. The first and fourth sets are my favorites. Great visual and literary macro work on the fourth.

    • Thank you very much for this wonderfully thoughtful and thorough comment. I am excited we have stumbled upon one another’s work.
      Cheers!

    • Thank you very much. I am not sure if this comment already went through but my DASHBOARD is telling me it did not (ghosts in the machine?) The 4th set was my favorite as well and you clearly have a trained eye and poetic voice to see that. Kudos and I am excited we stumbled upon one another’s work.
      Cheers,
      M

  6. Beautiful photographs and lovely Haiku’s…

  7. Wow, I just fall into these photos…

  8. I love your photography and Haiku- another wonderful post.

  9. Lovely. I especially love the image ang haiku for “most banal.”

    Great post.

    Images and words
    Blissfully shared on Sunday.
    We reap poetry.

  10. the words are blissful
    the images adventure
    Juliet’s kicked ass :)

  11. Always a fan…great pictures accompanied by great words :)

  12. Love them! I love how you tell a story in haiku to go along with the photos.

  13. Anticipation
    Image and wit juxtapose
    Each haiku Sunday

  14. Gosh I just love photo number one and number three. Good stuff :)

  15. Wonderful, lovely pictures!

  16. Really great color – what camera do you use? I just got a Nikon 5100, but some of mine are iPhone, and I just switched to Android, so the jury’s still out -:

  17. Nice series of photos..

  18. Love the variety of photos and I agree with Anaslene about photos telling a story. Something you are great at.

    BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!

  19. Nice! I really believe that most pictures can tell you a story…and the mind is free to imagine those stories!

  20. a man with good friends
    needs little else to get by
    only a lover

  21. Very nice! I really like the third photo!

  22. Fun stuff Mike.

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