Carpe Diem #535, Pearls

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I haven't a lot of time today, so I have decided to create a not so long post for today. That means ... I only share the words of Khalil Gibran from Sand and Foam. I hope you don't mind.
Today our prompt is pearls and I have found a few nice 'verses' from Sand and Foam ...

[...] "Perhaps the sea's definition of a shell is the pearl. Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond." [...]

[...] "A pearl is a temple built pain around a grain of sand." [...]

Credits: Pearl

And here is my attempt to write a haiku inspired on this 'verse' by Gibran.

catching oysters

to serve to my beloved wife -

pearl necklace

© Chèvrefeuille

Hm ... not as strong as I had hoped, maybe I will change it later, but for now ... this haiku gives words to my feelings ...

Another try:

wandering along the sea
in the footprints left an oyster
shimmering of a pearl

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until August 11th at noon. I will post our new episode, pebble, later on. 

Share your haiku inspired on the words by Khalil Gibran with us all here at our Haiku Kai.

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2.	Nimi	9.	Sky	16.	Thom Amundsen
3.	Arushi Ahuja	10.	Haiku Plate Special	17.	Mark M. Redfearn
4.	Hamish 'Managua' Gunn	11.	Kuheli	18.	Georgia @ Bastet's Waka Library
5.	Ese	12.	kaykuala	19.	milan rajkumar
6.	Bjorn	13.	Jen @ Blog It Or Lose It	20.	Tea, Poems and Pictures
7.	jazzytower	14.	Cressida de Nova

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