the roses tonight
trembling in the cool spring breeze
huddled together
huddled together
reading Rumi by candlelight
tasting the wine
tasting the wine
in the throat of the melting sky
burgundy sunset
burgundy sunset
smeared in your brooding eyes
tugging at your smile
tugging at your smile
perfumed verses from her lips
the roses tonight
THOUGHT PURGE 
Beautiful write.
Anna :o]
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Thank you Anna 🙂
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Refreshing and mellow haiku series…thanks for sharing the scene and a sip
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Thank you Lynn 🙂
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I love this style of poetry with one stanza building upon the last. It feels meditative and euphoric at the same time
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Thank you… “meditative and euphoric” sounds like a lovely mind space to be in.
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Clever & giddy-romantic, making up this cascading form was very imaginative; maybe you should guest host at dVerse for a MTB night, & give us all a shot at it.
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Thanks so much Glenn…I didn’t invent the form.. but I do agree it will be fun to have a haiku cascade event on dVerse!!!
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Very cool. I love the repetition. Just last evening, in the cool before sunset, I pruned my roses of the spent blooms. But there was no wine involved. 🙂 Peace, Linda
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Thank you Linda.. maybe next time 🙂 Roses and wine go well together, don’t you think!!! 🙂
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Roses.. burgundy love.. alight in lips..
kissing.. soft petals.. beauty.. now..:)
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Thank you Katie 🙂
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The flow and meter to this is a lovely read aloud. Thank you for sharing!
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Thank you Grace, glad you liked it.
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an exquisite cascade….”tasting the wine / in the throat of the melting sky / burgundy sunset” my favorite one…
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Thank you Sumana 🙂
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I think this serene scene is like a dream.. this is how we wish to live.
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Ah such a life would really be serene! Thanks Bjorn.
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reading Rumi by candlelight and having the loved one close…hmmm… sounds nice…
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Thank you Claudia 🙂
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Nice threaded verse with just a hint of sensuality.
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Thank you X 🙂
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Wonderful set of poems. I truly enjoy how the last line of a stanza becomes the first of the next – little poems cascading like a terraced fountain.
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Thank you KanzenSakura.. a beautiful description – “terraced haiku fountain”!!
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Admiring the cascading haiku specially this part:
tasting the wine
in the throat of the melting sky
burgundy sunset
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Thank you Grace.. cascading haikus have such a rhythm, I enjoy this form.
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Couldnt stop smiling …..lovely !!
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Thank you… am delighted I made you smile 🙂
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Reblogged this on Travels with Tio and commented:
a poem that stirs the passions of spring
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Thanks so much Tio Stib.
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Oh my goodness, I’m nearly swooning! Love the cascading haiku–now I want to write more!
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Thank you Dell Clover… please do.. can’t wait to read it! Cascading Haikus are much fun!
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I have one up already, “Ice”–you might enjoy it, while I’m thinking up a new one…
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Oh it was lovely Dell Clover… Like the imagery and the added challenge of using a word in each haiku!
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Thank you so very much.
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smooth reps! I dig it. (Hafiz is also good, if you like Rumi)
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Thank you Abubhaji… I read both Hafiz and Rumi, though I’d like to know if you recommend any particular Hafiz translation.
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I am most familiar w/ Daniel Ladinsky’s translations, mainly the book The Gift. With exception to word-press poets, I read 98% of my poetry right out of the books. I imagine there are so many online translations? And to be honest, I struggle with translated poetry at times. I found a great Osip Mandelstam book and just fell right into it… needed more Osip. The next book, didn’t come close. It made me realize the translators are, well, forgive me, almost co-creating something. It’s their poetry too. Now, I’ve got my eye out for the Osip translator’s book. Cheers ~
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Agree… in Ladinsky’s Hafiz and Coleman Barks’ Rumi , there’s probably a lot of the “co-creation” as you rightly called it. I think Nevit Ergin’s translations of Rumi’s work seem to be more true to the original. I haven’t read Osip.. but now will definitely look him up!
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