I love the night culture of the Philippines and how the twilight turns headlights into the moon. After the hot sun sinks and before the moon rises.
Tag: Senryu
Splashed with red flowers
Kid's water park excited shrieks wet selfies. Splashed with red flowers. ‘Tita Mel, you have little red flowers on you’ cried 11 year old Jerry as we were leaving a kid’s waterpark yesterday. Underneath the steps of a shrieking watercoaster,…
Easter Moon
flying late my Easter moon alighting Dubai
Next to the Sun
standing next to the sun I saw the city shine © 2019 Melinda J. Irvine © 2019 Melinda J. Irvine
The Window Sill
on the window sill bottles sitting in echoes memories -- not dust
Painted Gums
street composition afternoon art © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine As I wander the late afternoons I often ponder how the early masters like Yoshimoto, Basho and Buson would haiku and haiga our 21st century landscape.
Appearance and Reality
seeing senses skewed © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Skewed I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Guimaras Island, Iloilo (Philipppines) PS: I found Bertrand Russell's 'The Problems of Philosophy' for 85 pesos buried in a bookstore yesterday,…
Of the Forest
one piece of the forest fallen, at my feet © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Forest I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Guimaras, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Old World Tropics
bare feet uncover a new island old world pandanus © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Observe I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location:Guimaras Island, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Saying Goodbye
a few days remain part of her life the kittens © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Uncompromising I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Estancia, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Things Get Messy
no sleep tonight the neighbours dogs © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Messy I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Estancia, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Touch Me Not
touching a 'touch me not' we wait the restart © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Restart I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Estancia, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Astral
midnight a wet balcony becomes the moon © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Astral I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Estancia, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Creature
seeing someone's feet in the city sludge, I fall © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Creature I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Iloilo City (Philippines)
Waiting To Go Home
among the steady trill of motors, beats, our time we are all, just waiting to go home © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Trill I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Balasan, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Boy in Orange
recurrent concrete - support the tiny framework © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Silhouette I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Balasan, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Off to Sea
concrete cast boy alive for the ocean winsome © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Winsome I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Banate, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Afternoon Elegance
Phoebus Stretched his hands Unto each tiny stem and floret © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Elegance Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Batad, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Atmospheric
women's gowns compete with Christmas lights resplendent to the ceiling © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Atmospheric I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Jaro, Iloilo City (Philipppines)
Waiting
bottle caps black street stones white ball-pen scraped checkerboard © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Black Weekly Photo Challenge: Temporary I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Estancia, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Burnt Sunset
burning orange sky poverty reduced to a silhouette the panacea of dusk © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Panacea I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Estancia, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Fire in September
flames, cousins, aunts, fire tentative photo of mum the old fire place © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Tentative I'm part of Post A Day 2017
More than a Moment
though he smiles for me the hand on the water pump stuck, in his eternity © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Jiffy and Trance I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Baby Brothers
baby takes a a bath laundry tub filled with brothers one partner hiding © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Partner I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Roadside Fiesta
her sultry shimmer betwitching her passersby late night fiesta © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Shimmer I'm part of Post A Day 2017
New Rice
the late sun falling into each new stem of rice © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Afternoon Caper
faded sun finding its last men waving goodbye © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Caper I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Little Savage
every thing primal in your wreckless purrrrrrrrrr © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Savage I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Aloft
little white sail inside a green sea aloft © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Sail I'm part of Post A Day 2017
The Kids of Purok 7
Jerry visits an old playground where his house used to be © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Scamper and Snack I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Roots
along an old trail we walk to grandmother's house seven kids and me © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Roots and Gray I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Two Hot Days Later
he wanted pets trapped small fish and shrimp in plastic cups © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Cringe I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Monarch in the Garden
stately white flowers hold tall their golden sceptre perfect lined satin © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Illusion I'm part of Post A Day 2017
We Watched the Tide Fall
we watched the tide fall chased tiny fish into cups swimming till sunset © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Commit I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Fiction Flowers
this scribbled blossom I must have dreamed of triffids in a dusty book © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Blossom and Create I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Red Dirt Floor
bamboo walls don't keep out the rain puncture marks © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Puncture I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Lunchtime Treat
lunchtime stains little white shirt spaghetti © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Uniform I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Dividing Lines
heavy concrete wall dissects mine from neighbour's mine except a red hibiscus © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Farce I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Street Paint Eyes
street paint eyes broken bamboo bits hang like teeth © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Buff I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Reaching
mud garden footprint old bottles stem a bright rose gentleness reaching © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Tender I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Our Oceans, Our Future
World Oceans Day! Blissfully unaware, of what we've done. © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Crisp #WorldOceansDay #WorldOceansDay2017 #OurOceansOurFuture I'm part of Post A Day 2017
The Moon’s Final Polish
squatting over a mud puddle catch the moon © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Polish I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Trace
as he writes I ask "Ano ini?" ... Man-og! [snake] © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Trace I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Under the Moon
rainbow reaching (a tiny distant moon) both sides rainbow reaches World Environment Day both sides © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Distant I'm part of Post A Day 2017 World Environment Day #WithNature
Fragments of Artivism
creativity an urban reprieve outside collective focus Artivism was a curated street art collaboration of Ilonggo Artists sponsored by the British Council. The gallery in this blog is a collection of fragments I photographed from the complete work which spans a carpark…
Banana Blossom
ripened bract unfolds her music, line and textures dance inflorescence © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Impression
Jackfruit
every market corner stained with your pungent odour ma'am! you not like this? © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Notorious
Pursue
fresh fish shine under market light a living © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Pursue
Pieces of Pink
random memories fairy floss, flowers, kids, poo all my year in pink © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Pink
Ephemeral
summer tides fall little friends an island weekend © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Temporary
However bird songs are heard
like bold ink scratchings haiku ancestors, unknown bird songs are yet heard Audax scratchings quasi atramento Haiku et maiorum suorum ignotum carmina sunt avem tamen audisti Scratchings as bold ink Haiku Poetry and those of their own ancestors are pardoned…
Leaving the Temple
wreathed boy spoke limestone or held bird © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Photo: Limestone statuette of a boy with a wreath of leaves
Frog on a Straw Hat
little frog sitting long wooden centuries this me writing poems © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Photo: Netsuke of Frog on a Straw Hat I haven't written a poem or been out photographing for weeks, so it was a delight to read…
Showing Off Her Nails
manicured sky blue dainty arms and sleeves to match but will she float boys? © 2017 Melinda Irvine
The Tremble of Drums
dinagyang parade warriors dance for maidens the tremble of drums © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Tremble
A Recognised Craft
long since a palm tree weaved tight, neatly stitched by hands above now below © 2017 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Craft and Recognize
He Needs No Friends
Arrived unwilling, he rusted (hammered in tight). Forgetting what for. © 2017 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Resist
Somebody Clean that Fan
inside simple space we find creative moments family type stuff © 2017 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Simple
Philippine Public
women's "comfort" room we squat over grilled river (brown boxed "privacy") © 2017 Melinda Irvine Daily Post: Privacy
Write your life
Write in bright colours like your life could be, could might be Still reality. © 2016 Mel Irvine Weekly Discover Challenge: Transcript About eight years ago I bought myself a beautiful bound sketchbook and started sketching my guitar strap and…
Shine
your end of day flight blackened by the sun's late shine living passed to less © 2017 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Shine
Walking
Before sunset walk photographing river stuff. Nothing specific. © 2016 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Specific
Not Tonight Dear
Lady gone to sea (her mimsy flanks all about). She won't float tonight. © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Float
Tempted by the Sea
My grandmother's hands found little ships in tree bark. Tempted by the sea. © 2017 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Tempted
She Will Remain
She lies behind you another century, back turned she will remain. © 2017 Melinda Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Resilient
Gone
Linen stripped and washed (my friends will still be driving). Soon I'll be gone too © 2017 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Gone
Who was Lost at Sea
the living the left behind facing their ending down inside the sea © 2017 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Interior
No.
Her bespoke lie is all she's lived; 5 star girl only Yes, never ... © Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Bespoke
The Edge of the Moon
somewhere by the edge of the moon sits history. everything past. © 2016 Melinda Irvine © 2016 Melinda Irvine This is my contribution to the Blogging-U course Photography: Developing Your Eye II (Day 8 Edge).
Empty
this red bench was the 'pop of colour' i had been seeking to finish the 'developing your eye' wordpress course. there is usually an street vendor sitting here reading the newspaper while he sells sweets, fans or small plastic toys. at night he sleeps between pieces of cardboard in an alley behind an international hotel.
Nostalgia
nostalgia sits inside two pot plants and home mother's gardened hands © 2016 Melinda Irvine
Mirror
Muddy in a city puddle I saw myself © 2016 Melinda Irvine Photos taken in Iloilo City for the Weekly Photo Challenge (Mirror).
Water In My Pocket
water falls into my pocket, but my friendship is carefully placed. © 2016 Melinda Irvine https://youtu.be/3DOSV8QrwKI&rel=0
Street Sound
your little cries loud; so loud you pull my ears too my eyes too, my heart. © 2016 Melinda Irvine
All Life
all life runs deeply hidden from eyesight (the truth) all us connected. © 2016 Melinda Irvine
Like Water
flung down like water find your timeless fall and flow running, never still © 2016 Melinda Irvine
Can You Hear It?
wet season brown-out squandering the last cell phone charge. slowly. slowly. © 2016 Melinda Irvine https://youtu.be/eIX4NI43v1A&rel=0
Home For Winter
the sun is warming my tropical island feet back home for winter © 2016 Melinda Irvine
Where I Once Stood
where i once stood still a memory (bright shells) held in my little hand © 2016 Mel Irvine
Out the Window of the Bus
they rush into night. and soon, you won’t even see the poverty. © 2016 Melinda Irvine
Finding Your Way Back
when the pathway blurs, and i can't find my way back, do i close my eyes? © 2016 Melinda Irvine
Late afternoon ladies
Child's birthday party: cake, games, spaghetti. Later, ladies find red wine. © 2016 Melinda Irvine
The Family Album
where is home these days? maybe home is no longer a place: just photos? © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Still Life in Green
still life coloured green i find green everywhere now guitar life sits still © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Jian
Two years older protects little brother; baby man. Superman at three. © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Thinking of home
clearing photographs I am pulled homeward hearing Australian beach sounds © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Manila
Traffic. Manila. Traffic. Traffic. Stopping for ... red lights optional. © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Dad’s Dog
leaving again soon walking his mate with purpose taking memories © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Islands of Gigantes
searching for signal yeh! that’s what teenagers do on magic islands © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Late Afternoon Amigos
Too grown for children, not yet men. Late afternoon amigos, pretend. © 2016 Melinda Irvine
Cosmetics
pretty city pics no begging or busted pipes plastic bag homeless © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Obedient Uncles
two young brothers held 1950's camera excited tyre tube © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Elephants and Art
I arrive at the Singapore Zoo expecting elephants not art © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Wheel of Brisbane
spins my head around (like sparkling wine at the bar far below). slow. slow. © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Late
afternoon sun life sets on these last of my days I’ll find you again © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Which Weeds?
weed or flower? which will make a difference? will it? will it? why? © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Old Moree Rocket
1975 you are tall like the sun, me small as you are now © 2015 Melinda Irvine