“The New Age of Aquarius,” #haiku

Yay! Frank Tassone’s Haikai challenge is back! I found inspiration in the kigo: 170 – Winter Solstice II/Christmas. 

Yuletide blessings flow
from dawn's light thorough Stonehenge
the sun god returns

©2020 Colleen M. Chesebro

Pagans around the world celebrate the return of the light as the Wheel of the Year continues to turn. May the darkness of this plague-ridden year be behind us!

Happy Yule, Merry Christmas, & Happy New Year!

Author: Colleen M. Chesebro

Colleen M. Chesebro is a Michigan Poet who loves crafting syllabic poetry, flash fiction, and creative fiction and nonfiction. Colleen sponsors a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called Tanka Tuesday, on wordcraftpoetry.com where participants learn how to write traditional and current forms of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, gogyohka, tanka prose, renga, solo-renga, haibun, cinquain, Etheree, nonet, shadorma, Badger’s hexastich, Abhanga, and diatelle poetry. Colleen's syllabic poetry has appeared in “Hedgerow, a journal of small poems,” and in various other online publications. She’s won many awards from participating in the Carrot Ranch Rodeo, a yearly 99-word flash fiction contest sponsored by carrotranch.com, an online writing community. Recently, she created the Double Ennead, a 99-syllable poetry form for Carrot Ranch. Colleen has published a collection of poetry, flash fiction, and short stories called, “Fairies, Myths & Magic: A Summer Celebration,” dedicated to the Summer Solstice. She contributed a short story called “The Changeling,” in the “Ghostly Rites Anthology 2020” published by Plaisted Publishing House. Colleen Chesebro’s poetry blog is called Word Craft – Prose & Poetry at https://wordcraftpoetry.com/ Her author blog is found at https://colleenchesebro.com where you will find her poetry and short stories.

14 thoughts on ““The New Age of Aquarius,” #haiku”

  3. Pingback: #Haikai Challenge #171 (12/29/20): Cold Moon (fuyu no tsuki)/New Year’s Eve (toshi no yo)/ New Year’s Day (ganjitsu) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga – Frank J. Tassone

  4. I was watching some historical show about the stone works of Europe – Stonehenge one of the younger of these types of monuments. There is still so much to learn about what the ancients left.

    Hope your New Year in your New Home begins a wonderful chapter for you and yours!!

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      1. ‘My office’ is the dining room table. Though I do have the option of two other rooms! Both of which have desks that are overflowing with stuff. You’d have thought I’d have had time to organize… but, well just keeping up with keeping up can be it’s own challenge.

        Years ago we got some new wood flooring and painted. My dining room and kitchen walls are still bare! At least though from wear I sit I an see out the bay and the picture windows by just a little head swivel 😉

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