Wednesday, October 10, 2007

NEW MAN IN MY LIFE


He has black hair and large emerald eyes. He is taking up all my free time. He will not leave my pc alone. He sleeps on my pillow, not his own. He sleep most of the day and eats for the rest. HIs hair is so very soft and long and i wonder if he will loose it like so many men. We do not speak the same language so it is a bit hard to communicate fully. He has very high cheak bones and his eyes have a Mongolian slant to the. Perhaps he is part Hungarian like me? The two males next door speak the same language, so he goes over to Raymond's house a few times a day.
Mischi hisses at him and swats him when he passes by her. He likes to share my coffee too much. He is already hyper, so i try and keep him from doing that. He is very noisy and has looked in all my closets. He has a fondness for shoes, especially designer ones. So, he is a bit vain or perhaps just has a taste for the finer things in life. To celebrate his moving into my house i served my usual celebration bottle or two of Veuve Clicquot and smoked salmon sandwiches, well he did not like the bubbly, but eat most of the salmon. He enjoys my many silk kimona very much, perhaps he is part oriental in orientation. He also has insommnia as i do, but he will not take any sleeping mediction. It is early days yet, i do hope he will fit in with the rest of my household soon. His name is Jet. I love him very much indeed!

HIs black hair shines
in the Autumn misty day
sounds of hissing

On my silk kimona
many long black hairs
rustle of old silk

We share a glass
of the old bubbly wine
in Irish glasses

Mischi, the old female
her blue-green eyes flash
at his large emerald ones

My blue silk pillow
a new shiny black head now
little room for mine

In the long dark night
a new heart beat next to mine
i go to sleep with a smile

Sunday, September 23, 2007

TODAY IS AUTUMN (AKI)


I woke up very early this morning for some reason. I have actually slept 7 hours a night for the last couple of months, not today. I then realised it is the first day of Autumn.

Autumn always gives me a restless feeling, perhaps itis my Maygyar DNA. An urge to go off to Winter hunting grounds?

For weeks now it look as if someone has used a paint brush on the trees and bushes during the night. The old oak trees have rusty leaves and the acorns are on the ground.

I found an interesting and useful piece of rock art. Rocks have spaces where you put tea lights inside them. They warm the rocks...a wonderful spot to put cold bare feet.

I have never been to Eastern Canada or the USA for Autumn and one day i really must go and see all those red Maple trees. We do not have mnay of them here.

Autumn haiku and tanka

Rusting oak trees
guarding the harbour entrace
spaces to see through now
the ships pass behind them
to Alaska and Vancouver

Red and yellow leaves
float on the blue ocean
where do they journey to
if i were an insect small
could i catch a ride

On this pacific island
reds and yellow leaves
foat here and settle there
i feel ready to travel
with them right now

A weeping willow
still full of green leaves
the old man's memories

The old man
lights a Churchill
to keep wasps away

Half the boats
in the harbour now gone
more space for my dragonboat
to reach the other island

In Mother's garden
sound of many crickets
singing old songs

In the kitchen
a cricket in a cage
keeping Aki time

Sunday, September 16, 2007

FROHES GEBURSTAG MELITTA UND MAYA


Two very special birthdays to the Ladies that are so very import to me!!


Normally Sagittarian and Virgo do not really get along.


Well, not true at all.


Both have milestone birthdays today. Both share ancient roots to the Baltic sea.


One the oldest woman in my life, the other the youngest.


For Mutti Melitta:


She starts her day

with the coffee with her name

Melitta in her cup


Wihout her on earth

i would not be here at all

September's red leaves


On the Baltic

in an ancient place

gold sand dunes


Blond Viking hair

the Baltic winds blow

the sea scents


Young green eyes

do not recognize the

older face


Across the sea

in an old graveyard

ancestor spirits

still alive and with us today

tall blue irises


FOR MAYA


Her voice

my wake-up call

each moring


In old Hamburg

from her open window

mist from the river


In her closet today

another pair of designer shoes

from her Prince


Bottle of champagne

another taste of

the old widow Clicquot

to start a birthday morning

in my Irish glass


Saturday, September 8, 2007

RENGAY BY ANGELIKA BYGOTT AND JOHN DALEIDEN


Sea-Changes



By Angelika Bygott and John Daleiden



squatting

a frog observes

the clouds /chiyo-ni


near the lily pads

dragon flies hover /Angelika


the waves break

on Malibu Beach

sandpipers skitter /John


late August day

a leaf in the ocean

Canada Goose honks /Angelika


hurricane remnants

one hundred year floods /John



the lunar eclipse

her full face has a twin

in the still ocean /Angelika


















Friday, August 17, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFFREY RANDOLPH RENVILLE



Happy Birthday my one and only child.


Against all odds we both survived one of those "Hungarian dramas" that this family is so fond of.


On the radio right now they are playing a csardas...


From The Phophet by Kahil Gibran


And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."


And he said:


Your children are not your children.


They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.


They come through you but not from you.


And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.


You may give them your love but not your thoughts.


For they have their own thoughts.


You may house their bodies but not their souls,


For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.


You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.


For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.


You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.


The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.


Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;


For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.


My tanka


He sits on the large hill

King of his great pride

His kingdom down below

The responsibilities are vast

A roar awkens the day



Written this morning August 17, 2007


Happy Birthday!!!!!


Monday, August 6, 2007

MID-SUMMER


My computer crashed and have lost most of my data. Did back my data as i should have...NO!!!


Well, as everything in my life i only learn things the hard way. I am especially sorry that my Cousin Kim lost his collection of 30,000 songs that he has been collecting for so long.


I now have an external hard-drive and this should help with anymore losses.


I am grateful to Ray and Roger for letting me use their computers...so sorry for waking the two of you so early in the mornings. You have been good sports. I will have one of my bubbly parties soon to celebrate.


Here in Nanaimo we had the annual Dragon boat festival in which i was part of. Then there was the Bathtub Races which brings so many tourists to the city. More and more i hear many European and Asian languages spoken here and am happy that these tourists are enjoying this city and the island.


Here are a few haiku and tanka:


For the breast cancer survior dragon boat teams


My paddle goes slowly

among the flowers in the sea

so many lives gone

but we honour

them today


Salt on arms and legs

spash the dragon boaters

as a seal watches


For Sam Monagham Stone for his historic sea voyage from Honolulu to Japan on the Kama Hele, a 125 day life changing adventure. I am so proud of you See you on my birthday in Honolulu!!!

You can read about his adventure on http://pvshawaii.squarespace.com/ and on his regular column for JAL at http://www.jal.co.jp/hawaii/samlog, also his TV show website http://entame.express.jp/tvinfo/aloten3/index.php


On the still sea

his eyes look inward

creating stories


Summer morning

watching the sun rise

haze on the sea


Blue-green eyes

memories brings me back

to your island



Sunday, July 1, 2007

HAPPY CANADA DAY 2007








Happy Canada Day


The city will be full of actvities today. One nice thing is the annual classic car show . Family actvities in the park. I like that the downtown highrises all put large flags on thier balconies.


The 360 Van Isle sailboat race is now finished. i watched the sailboats come in yesterday morning.

I met many of the sailors...they were all having coffee down on the quay.


Canada is 140 years old today!!!!


At dawn

sailboats enter the habour

sailors ready for coffee


Canada Day

she is 140 years old

young at heart and spirit

people of many lands

room for them all


Last day of June

she waits for the Honey Moon

her beautiful face


My little sister

her birthday yesterday

like the daughter

i could never have

Frohes Geburstag