ik 292 for December 2015 b

ik 292

(Elfje)

Hale

Have

Heavenly harmony;

Heralded healthy hospitality

Heightens hope held heartwarmingly

High

©JP/dh

Hale is the Hawaiian word for "house" or "home"

Hale is also associated with Mahalo.

"Mahalo" is a Hawaiian word meaning thanks, gratitude,

admiration, praise, esteem, regards, or respects.

Treat your body with respect make it a happy home;

as Thoreau says; ‘...be, happy, be’’

Inspired by: “If you want to be happy, be.”

Henry David Thoreau

From: Instant Karma by Barbara Ann Kipfer

8,879 ways to give yourself and others

good fortune right now.

*

Karma is cause and effect. Dharma means cosmic law.

Yoga is enlightenment through movement and Tao is the

practice of acting in harmony with the fundamental essence

of everything you encounter.

Note: My haiku (or other forms) are my interpretations

or of how I might put the inspirational sentence

into practice, for me.  Also, I am going in my own order.

Elfje 11 word poem in 5 lines

(Does not have to be alliterative, just my latest spin)

ik 291 for December 2015 b

ik 291

(Elfje)

‘Be’ for ‘Y’

yeuk

yearning, yird

yesterday's youthful yawns

yonside yens yerk you -

yeep

*

{bind (false) yearning, bury

yesterday's youthful yawn (the past was...)

(is) on the farther side of cravings that bind you

shout with joy for who you are now - cheep/chirp}

Yes “Y” was a challenge!

©JP/dh 12.17.15 for 12.18.15

Inspired by:

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

From: Instant Karma by Barbara Ann Kipfer

8,879 ways to give yourself and others

good fortune right now.

*

Karma is cause and effect. Dharma means cosmic law.

Yoga is enlightenment through movement and Tao is the

practice of acting in harmony with the fundamental essence

of everything you encounter.

Note: My haiku (or other forms) are my interpretations

or of how I might put the inspirational sentence

into practice, for me.  Also, I am going in my own order.

Elfje 11 word poem in 5 lines

(Does not have to be alliterative, just my latest spin)

ik 290 for December 2015 b

ik 290

(Elfje)

Unclouded

Utilize

Unconventional understanding;

Unify unabashed unbiased

Unbridled unconditional unfettered universal

Unguent

©JP/dh

unguent: preparation applied externally as a remedy or for soothing

Inspired by: “Your visions will become clear only when you can look

into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams;

who looks inside, awakes.”

Carl Jung

From: Instant Karma by Barbara Ann Kipfer

8,879 ways to give yourself and others

good fortune right now.

*

Karma is cause and effect. Dharma means cosmic law.

Yoga is enlightenment through movement and Tao is the

practice of acting in harmony with the fundamental essence

of everything you encounter.

Note: My haiku (or other forms) are my interpretations

or of how I might put the inspirational sentence

into practice, for me.  Also, I am going in my own order.

Elfje 11 word poem in 5 lines

(Does not have to be alliterative, just my latest spin)

ik 289 for December 2015 b

ik 289

(Elfje)

Objective Observation?

Opinions

Opaque, oblique

Obnoxious, ostentatious, outrageous

Can be offensive... or

Opportunities

©JP/dh

Inspired by: “Think only what is right there,

what is right under your nose to do.

It is such a simple thing - that’s why people can’t do it.”

Henry Miller

From: Instant Karma by Barbara Ann Kipfer

8,879 ways to give yourself and others

good fortune right now.

*

Karma is cause and effect. Dharma means cosmic law.

Yoga is enlightenment through movement and Tao is the

practice of acting in harmony with the fundamental essence

of everything you encounter.

Note: My haiku (or other forms) are my interpretations

or of how I might put the inspirational sentence

into practice, for me.  Also, I am going in my own order.

Elfje 11 word poem in 5 lines

(Does not have to be alliterative, just my latest spin)

ik 188 for December 2015 b

ik 288

(Elfje)

tried and true

tread

trip, traverse

tumble, trundle, twirl

be thoughtfully and tenderly

theopneustic

http://www.yourdictionary.com/theopneustic

©JP/dh

Inspired by: You cannot travel on the path before you have become

the Path itself (Buddha)

From: Instant Karma by Barbara Ann Kipfer

8,879 ways to give yourself and others

good fortune right now.

*

Karma is cause and effect. Dharma means cosmic law.

Yoga is enlightenment through movement and Tao is the

practice of acting in harmony with the fundamental essence

of everything you encounter.

Note: My haiku (or other forms) are my interpretations

or of how I might put the inspirational sentence

into practice, for me.  Also, I am going in my own order.

Elfje 11 word poem in 5 lines

(Does not have to be alliterative, just my latest spin)

ik 281 for December 2015 b

ik 281

(Elfje)

Sail Imagination’s Xebec

excel

in excitement

xeroxed extravagant xenia

within the Xyst’s portico

extraordinary!

©JP/dh

Inspired by: What is essential is invisible to the eye.

-Antoine de St. Exupery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xebec

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia_(Greek)

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/xyst

From: Instant Karma by Barbara Ann Kipfer

8,879 ways to give yourself and others

good fortune right now.

*

Karma is cause and effect. Dharma means cosmic law.

Yoga is enlightenment through movement and Tao is the

practice of acting in harmony with the fundamental essence

of everything you encounter.

Note: My haiku (or other forms) are my interpretations

or of how I might put the inspirational sentence

into practice, for me.  Also, I am going in my own order.

Elfje 11 word poem in 5 lines

(Does not have to be alliterative, just my latest spin)

ik 280 for December 2015 b

ik 280

(Elfje)

wearables?

we

will wantings -

wishing for weightlessness;

waxing, waning - weaving willful

weft

©JP/dh

Inspired by: Work is love made visible.

Kahlil Gibran

(We are who we are, with or without the masks we wear?

It is a challenge to find alliterative words that make sense.

May we all find work we love. -JP)

From: Instant Karma by Barbara Ann Kipfer

8,879 ways to give yourself and others

good fortune right now.

*

Karma is cause and effect. Dharma means cosmic law.

Yoga is enlightenment through movement and Tao is the

practice of acting in harmony with the fundamental essence

of everything you encounter.

Note: My haiku (or other forms) are my interpretations

or of how I might put the inspirational sentence

into practice, for me.  Also, I am going in my own order.

Elfje 11 word poem in 5 lines

(Does not have to be alliterative, just my latest spin)