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Haiku: Fading Sun

fading sun …Buddha’s handraised in the distance © Xenia Tran Autumn Moon Haiku Journal Volume 8:2, Spring/Summer 2025 We are deeply honoured and delighted that the above haiku was published in Autumn Moon Haiku Journal Volume 8:2, Spring/Summer 2025. Warm thanks to Astrid Andreescu and Kristen Lindquist for selecting my poem and putting this beautiful … Continue reading "Haiku: Fading Sun"

Seeking Serenity

Cairngorms National Park

Tanka Sequence: When Time is Sacred

When Time is Sacred~ for John ~ rings of Saturnin the night skyyour smilelike outstretched armsready to welcome me home lighthouse beamssplit the darknessbetween cliff and skymy burning questionsremain unanswered so many starsglittering the nightthis lovetranscends all distanceour worlds could cross © Xenia Tran Ribbons Spring/Summer 2025: Volume 21, Number 1 We are deeply honoured … Continue reading "Tanka Sequence: When Time is Sacred"

Silent Sunday: Shades of Pink

Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week, with love from Xenia xxx Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr. Silent Sunday Weekly Prompts Weekend Colour Challenge: Pink Flower of the Day

Haiku: Red Berry Tea

red berry teathe birds just startingto sing © Xenia Tran Presence #73, July 2022 We are deeply honoured and delighted that the above haiku, first published in Presence in 2022, has been included in a beautiful new haiku anthology titled Tea – all the time it takes, edited by Denise Fontaine-Pincince: Warm-hearted thanks to Denise … Continue reading "Haiku: Red Berry Tea"

Silent Sunday: One Day in Forvie

Wishing you all a blessed Sunday and a peaceful new week, with love from Xenia xxx Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr. Silent Sunday Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: One Day Lens-Artists Weekly Photo Challenge #346: Cinematic

Haiku: Moonlight

moonlighton the train’s roofa thousand acorns © Xenia Tran Autumn Moon Haiku Journal Volume 8:1, Autumn/Winter 2024 Wishing you all a wonderful Wednesday and a peaceful rest of the week, with love from Xenia xxx Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr. Xingfu Mama’s Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge 2025 Week 16 Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water … Continue reading "Haiku: Moonlight"

The Soothing Sight of the Sea

This week, John at Lens-Artists invites us to share our go-to places. Living by the sea, we never have to venture far to breathe in the clean air … … and walk below the cliffs when the gorse are back in bloom, whether the water is soothing and calm … … or whipped up by … Continue reading "The Soothing Sight of the Sea"

Tanka: Lonely Inn Gallery

her roof part-collapsedthe Lonely Inn Gallerywelcomes a breezeof ghosts, artists pasttheir faces still radiant © Xenia Tran We had passed this abandoned gallery and adjoining inn on the way back from a hike and when I glanced to the left the second time, I noticed a middle-aged man there and asked Paul to pull over. … Continue reading "Tanka: Lonely Inn Gallery"

The Seals of Forvie

Forvie National Nature Reserve