Hushed serenity
Mystic blue embraces all,
Giving thanks for peace.
©Annika Perry
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Lone tree, spirit strong
Bedecked with icy jewels
Awaiting warm Spring.
©Annika Perry
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Beckoning Light
Hushed serenity
Mystic blue embraces all,
Giving thanks for peace.
©Annika Perry
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Lone tree, spirit strong
Bedecked with icy jewels
Awaiting warm Spring.
©Annika Perry
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Hi, Annika – Your words and photos were just what I needed this morning. Thank you for sharing them!
I’m so glad, Donna – it’s a mystery how one can stumble upon posts just at the right time! Hope you’ve had a good week and wishing you a lovely weekend! 😀
Lovely, both the poems and the photos. They are so evocative of something that I do not get out here in Arizona ;).
And there am I, loving images of your beautiful Arizona … scenes almost from another world! So glad you enjoyed the poems and photos, Luanne! Hope you’re keeping well and safe. Hugs xx
Lovely haiku poems.. Thanks for sharing… Keep it up
So glad you enjoyed the haikus … do you write poetry as well?
Yes..I do…Just a newbie… If you wish you can see few of them in my blogging site…
The lone tree and its patience in awaiting better days and warmer weather is indeed an inspiration for us, isnt it!! 😀😀😊
How true … it is inspiring as it all nature through all the seaons! Being out has helped so much this year! A lone tree is incredibly evocative and especially so in this magical landscape! Thank you so much for you reading and sharing your thoughts!
It was my pleasure!! We can learn a lot from nature when we stop to think about it..patience does not come easy and we could use some inspiration from those that are so available to us such as trees and lanscaping among others 🙂
Beautiful ❤️
Thank you!
Beautiful Haiku with with hope and strength, Annika. The air is crispy in the image!
Miriam, crispy air is the best kind this time of year in England … the damp dull of rain is disheartening! I’m so glad you found hope and strength in my haikus – thank you! Wishing you a lovely weekend! xx
Reading your words is like a breath of fresh air, Annika. The word “peace” continues to surface for me this week. I believe because my spirit is craving peace. I agree how this lone tree appears strong, barely bent. Possibly, also a message for me and for all of us. Thank you, Annika, for your words. You always make a difference.❤️
Erica, it is a wonder and gift how nature teaches us all the time and like you I find the the tree here is trying to spread a message to us … to remain strong, hopeful … Spring is coming but bearing up this winter! Oh, how we need that peace, within our socities, within ourselves and I’m glad my haikus here gave you a little sense of this calm and harmony. Thank you for your lovely comment and bless you for your last sentence. Likewise, my friend! xx ❤️
Hi Annika, I was thinking about you today, fondly, of course. I am planning to head to Munro’s book store tomorrow, downtown Victoria. I have only been out for groceries and walks, yet I am looking for something specific and local. You make a great point, peace within our societies and within ourselves. ❤️
I will likely bore you with my thoughts, how you have a gift with words, Annika. I know I have said this before. You share a message and powerful emotions in few words. xx ❤️
We can use all of the peace we can find, Annika. Thank you for your calming words and beautiful images. The second one is my favorite. –Curt
And to think I debated whether to include the second photo! 😀 Curt, how true that we need to seek out calm and peace, inside and outside of ourselves! Wishing you and Peggy a lovely rest of the week!
I have a weakness for lone trees with a personality standing by themselves in a field, Annika. The snow was a plus. 🙂 –Curt
Breathtaking images and beautiful words to pair with them, Annika. This post was just what I needed to feel at peace. Hugs! 💗✨
Bless! 😀 Lauren, it’s wonderful to know you felt a sense of peace and harmony upon reading my post – that means a lot! Exactly the emotions I wanted to convey through the haikus as I viewed the photos! Hope you’re keeping well, my friend! xx
The poetry and photographs compliment each other perfectly. A shaft of light in these strange times.
Mike
Mike, thank you so much for your reflections and I’m glad my post cast some light during these troublilng times … the photos were inspiring and it’s a joy to share my haikus here! Keep well!
Wonderful photos
Absolutely … and the landscape is breathtaking! 😀
Loved the imagery in these poems and they connected so well to the photos! Well done, Annika.
Thank you so much, Mark! They photos were so inspiring and moments like that feel like a gift!
Adore that first photo, Annika. Sublime light and ‘hushed serenity’. A great combination. 🙂 🙂 But I really need to nudge the temperature gauge up a little.
Haha!! 😀😀 Yes, I can imagine it feels rather warmer in sunny Portugal … here the heating is constantly over 20, radiators burning hot and I’m in at least two layers! The light in the first one is incredible and that ‘hushed serenity’ floats over one!
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I’m trying to convince myself living in cold climes is wonderful. You definitely help me with that, Annika.
Jacqui, on days like this, winter is a dream! Heavenly to stride forth across such landscape! 😀 Now on the rainy, damp days just hovering over zero and constant gloom – send me over to warmer climes immediately! 😀
I think it’s less populated which is appealing to me? Less people to get in the way of nature’s beauty?
Lovely, Annika. Wishing you health, fortitude and happiness.
Thank you so much, Cynthia! 😀 Wishing you and your family a wonderful New Year, may it be one filled with light and love! Good luck with your amazing Myrtle series! xx
Thank you.
This is why we need poetry – haikus with photos that remind us of the silent beauty all around us. I’m sinking into your words and your pictures and feeling an “ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.” ❤
Pam, I’m smiling at the peace and harmony my post has instilled in you! 😀😀 The wonder of poetry is how in a few words they can capture a whole, distilling into very little that which is our everything! Wishing you a joyful and calm week, my friend! xx ❤️
Yes, and that’s not easy to do in 5-7-5!!
Beautiful post
Eilidh, thank you! 😀🌺
Stunning photos accompanied by gorgeous words. I felt peace as I looked and read, pondered and learned. Thank you.
Beautiful haikus and snow pictures, Annika. Yes, “giving thanks for peace.”
Nicki, thank you so much … one can’t give enough thanks for the peace that is in our lives, although at times it feels elusive! X
I love both of your haikus, as well as the photographs that inspired them. They strike me as odes to winter light, which can take on such different guises. Coincidentally, I was out taking winter landscape photos yesterday (to inspire fiction, but they might spark a poem or two as well).
Liz, I would love to read your poems / fiction inspired by your own winter landscape … it can be a bewitching and captivating season! You are right that the light in these two photos is incredible and it means a lot to me that you see my haikus as odes to the winter light! Thank you so much! Here’s to inspiration & creativity … whatever their source! 😀
You’re welcome, Annika! Here is a prior post of mine about the silence of winter: https://lizgauffreau.com/2020/02/12/winter-lull-by-d-h-lawrence/.
Thank you so much for sharing this here, Liz! I love your short story and how you capture the beauty and horror of the silent accident. Wonderful as is D H Lawrence’s poem!
Thank you for your kind words, Annika. That accident made such an impression on me.
Beautiful haiku, Annika. I love how you capture the image and season in so few words. Enjoy your glorious, snowy winter weather.
Thank you so much, Diana! 😀 Haikus are a gift for saying so much in just a few syllables … and I wanted to capture the mystical magical light of this wintery landscape. Alas it is a couple of hundred miles north of where I live — a very good friend from university and I regularly excahange photos (and messages) on WhatsApp and knowing my love of ther moors these feature often! 😀
❤ Beautiful
Annika, I really appreciate these timely thoughts of serenity. (And how wonderful that you give credit to the photographers.)
Shari, that’s wonderful, so glad you enjoyed the haikus and photos. The pictures, taken by a close friend, would not leave me and inspired me to write the poems!
Gorgeous stories Annika, especially the 2nd one with that stunning image ❤
Debby, I love how you see these haikus as stories, just as it should be! 😀 Thank you so much! Xx ❤️
Absolutely! ❤
Lovely!!
Ahhh … thank you, Rebecca! X
Wonderful poems Annika.. You have captured the magic and the Light through both of your creations my friend…
They both brought so much peace, and said so much in so few words… Excellently created..
Love and Blessings dear Annika.. ❤
Ahhh … bless you for your wonderful comment, Sue! The light is stunning in both of these photos, so mesmerising I find myself returning to them. I love how you felt the peace and magic within my haikus, just what I wanted to convery. I enjoy the challenge of limitation of the haiku form to capture one’s thoughts and emotions within such a tight framework. hugs xx ❤️
Beautiful. Breathtaking. Thank you for sharing with us.
Melissa, It’s wonderful my haikus touched you so! 😀Thank you for reading and your lovely comment! It’s a privilege to share here and always a joy ‘chatting’ through the ensuing discussions. X
Beautiful words and images Annika.
Andrea, warmest thanks! 😀
Beautiful, Annika! You ALMOST make me miss winter, lol
Haha!😀 Almost is not bad, Jacquie! So glad you liked the post!
Nicely done, Annika.
Thank you, Anneli! 😀
Beautiful, Annika… 💞
So glad you liked the post, Bette! Thank you! xx ❤️
I love those pictures Annika, as they evoke many thoughts. Your poetry complements their beauty.
Balroop, that is exactly what a friend and I were discussing as we looked at the photos … her thoughts so very different from mine on exactly the same image! It means a lot they you feel my poetry complements the beauty of the nature captured so magically here!
That icy snow blue is definitely special–beautiful, but it makes me cold to even look at it. Lovely poems. I hope for peace and spring, too. 😀
Merril, the icy blue of the photos does have one reaching for a fleece!! 😀 It is incredible as the two are opposite times of the day, the first one evening, the second morning but still such a mystical blue. I’m glad you enjoyed my accompanying poems and I definitely feel a hint of Spring now and then!
Such beautiful poetry, Annika. Thank you for sharing these gems with us. 🙂 Wishing you a joyous, peaceful Sunday. xo
Ahh … thank you so much, Natalie and I’m so happy you enjoyed these ‘gems’! It’s Sunday night here and it’s been a lovely day … hope you’re having a special Sunday too! hugs xx
Lovely poetic expressions and photos, Annika! Thank you for sharing!
Jan, warmest thanks and it’s been a delight to share here … a different post from my usual ones! 😀
Beautiful pictures and the Haikus are so awesome, Annika. Too good.
Ahh … thank you so much, Kamal! 😀 That means a lot to me!
You are always welcome dear Annika,❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful winter images and haikus, Annika!
Bless, I really appreciate your comment, Lavinia! Thank you! 😀
Lovely pictures and haikus. They go very well together.
Pat, thank you so much … it’s lovely how one inspired the other!
Good example of synergy.
These are lovely, thanks.
Thank you so much, Darlene!😀
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So beautifully expressed, Annika! Happy Sunday to you.<3
Thank you so much, Jennifer! 😀 Wishing you a beautiful Sunday too … sun and frost here so just perfect!
Beautiful poem, Annika, to go with your friend’s photos. I like the 2nd photo and your hint of Spring to come.
Natalie, thank you so much! 😀 The photos were so inspiring and there are moments now where signs of Spring are giving a real sense of hope – much needed at the moment!
Such a beautiful and serene post. Your poems are lovely. Your friend Catherine, is quite the photographer. Her photos are stunning. Thank you again for the beautiful Christmas card. I loved seeing your family!❤️
Ahhh … Jill, I am so glad my post could give your start of the day a sense of peace and serenity!😀 It was a joy to write the haikus and share here along with the photos. Catherine will be most chuffed with your comment and I totally agree, she has a gift for photography – we often share photos on WhatsApp and brighten each other’s day! So glad the card arrived and thank you for your ecard – I’ve just replied! hugs xx ❤️
Happy New Year, Annika. May peace prevail.
Neil, a very Happy New Year to you too and indeed, may peace prevail! Watching the news from the States it seems to need this peace more than ever!
Your poetry and photos drew me into a silent, lovely space. Thank you, Annika, for sharing these marvelous poems. 💗
Ahh … Gwen, I’m so happy my post and poems drew you into such a peaceful place and a perfect start for Sunday morning! Thank you so much for your lovely comment which means a lot to me. X
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Beautiful photos and words that embody peace, hope and serenity, all things needed in the world right now. Thanks for sharing Annika 🙏💙
Thank you so much, Miriam … just the range of emotions I hoped to convey! We need them more than ever! Hugs xx🌺❤️
I loved the haikus… and those images were magical…
Thank you so much! 😀 A good friend sent me the photos and I was immediately inspired to write these haikus!
These are both lovely, Annika. Beautiful pictures too.
Robbie, thank you so much! I wonder if I’m not being drawn to poetry a bit more at the moment! I too love these ethereal photos sent to me by a friend from university who happens to live near the moors!
You are lucky to have someone to send you beautiful and inspiring pictures. I have been writing poetry again lately too.
Wonderful, Annika, both the Haikus and the great pictures.
Your Haikus are like peaceful songs of praise in the morning. I can feel the hushed serenity and peace.
Then you follow it with the peaceful lone tree, just waiting in stillness.
Uplifting reading this morning.
Miriam
Ahhh … Miriam, I love your poetic comment and feel the stirrings of your own poetic response to the images! 😀 I’m heartened that the haikus were ‘like peaceful songs of praise in the morning’, that makes my day!!❤️ The serenity is palpable from the photos and I wanted to share this emotion through my poetry …although I am yet such a novice and much to learn! I like the image of the lone tree waiting in stillness … such harmony in the thought!
Wishing you a wonderful week of poetry, my dear friend! xx 🤗
Very beautiful. We have similar conditions here, except more snow.
Lynette, sunny frosty winter days are just what the season should be, I feel! Pure magic and ethereal — and creatively inspiring!
That’s really beautiful, Annika! Enjoy! X
Charley, I’m indulging in a bit of poetry writing at the moment and I loved the phots. Alas, I live nowhere near the moors but enjoy them through these images and love the beauty of nature around me!
Wow so beautiful