Carpe Diem Special *Adjei Agyei Baah, our featured haiku poet, on Afriku*

Our inspiration on Carpe Diem Special this week were several haiku, written by Adjei Agyei Baah – a well-known poet from Ghana but I was the most drawn to the following one:

Here’ s my attempt to stay close to the same mood and spirit:

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ancient patterns
painted on his bare skin
by desert shadows

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bright orange
between parched grass blades
her delicate feet

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Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Travel Theme: Delicate

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. /Ovid/

Ailsa’ s Travel Theme