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Friday, August 29, 2014

Haiku Shuukan #20, Tears


Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Another week has gone by, it was a wonderful week, but also a very busy week, but ... well being busy is part of my life. I never will spill a tear about it and that brings me to our new prompt of this week, tears. As you maybe know we are reading "Sand and Foam" by Khalil Gibran at our daily haiku meme at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai and this week I love to share also a 'verse' by Khalil Gibran on 'tears'.

[...] "There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea". [...]

A nice and very spiritual 'verse' I think and it is here also for your inspiration and mine. I have written the following haiku on 'tears', a year ago:

with tears in my eyes
I see how the wind is ruining
fragile beauty

fragile beauty
a gust of wind tears apart
Cherry Blossoms

© Chèvrefeuille (2013)

Credits: tears
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday September 5th at noon (CET). For now ... have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at our Haiku Shuukan.
Our next episode will be universe.

Friday, August 22, 2014

Haiku Shuukan #19, Sleepless


Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

A new week has started for Haiku Shuukan and it's time for a new prompt. Our prompt for this week is sleepless and it needs no further explanation I think. So this week I will (try to) keep it short.
Haiku Shuukan is a steady haiku-member of the Carpe Diem Haiku Family and it gives me the same joy as all my other weblogs, there is just a little tiny thing ... I would love to see it grow. So invite other haiku-poets to visit Haiku Shuukan and maybe participate in it. Of course I know that there are several other weblogs about haiku ... but it would be fun to see more participants at Haiku Shuukan.

OK ... back to our prompt for this week SLEEPLESS ... write a haiku inspired on this prompt and share it with us all. I have found a picture to go along with this episode and maybe it will help you to become inspired.
Credits: Sleepless Nights
Well ... have fun, be inspired and share your haiku inspired on sleepless with us all here at Haiku Shuukan.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday August 29th at noon (CET).



Friday, August 15, 2014

Haiku Shuukan #18, Rose


Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's a joy to prepare a new episode of our weekly haiku-meme Haiku Shuukan. I see sometimes new names, but also family-members of our Carpe Diem Haiku Family which is not only this weblog, but several other weblogs too.
For example our Carpe Diem Haiku Family has two weblogs at Wordpress and they are also worth visiting. Here are the URL's of these Wordpress weblogs:

Carpe Diem Haiku Family on this weblog I have also a few haiku-memes, but those are not on a regular bases ... here your can share your haiku inspired on a prompt given in our "Shadow"-meme and on our "reprise"-meme (were I publish on a irregular base prompts from older post of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai on Blogspot.

Carpe Diem's "Tackle It Tuesday" on this weblog, a weekly haiku-meme on (as the name already says) Tuesdays. At this weblog I am giving a weekly prompt more based on the "spiritual" ways of haiku.

Baccarat Rose

But ... that is that ... back to our prompt for this week rose. the Queen of the Flowers, as I may call her that? I love roses and they are so special ... I can remember the first time that I bought a bouquet of roses for my wife. I had asked her to marry me and after that I had a nice romantic dinner organized for the two of us. The keeper of the restaurant was great. She had prepared a nice table in a cosy corner of the restaurant and had decorated the table with the very big bouquet of Baccarat roses (red of course) which I had bought for my wife. Candles burnt and Champaign already in wonderful flutes of crystal ... it was really awesome ... and yes she said yes. Well .... this happened 25 years ago (1989) and we married in April 1991 after the birth of our first son.

roses for my love
on the floor before the fireplace -
the sound of Champaign


© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... I hope you did like this little story and that it will inspire you to write new haiku. This episode will be open for your submissions at noon (CET) and it will remain open until next Friday August 22nd at noon (CET). For now ... have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at Carpe Diem's Haiku Shuukan.

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Haiku Shuukan #17, Quetzalcoatl


Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Another week has gone by ... and so it is time for a new episode of our weekly haiku meme Haiku Shuukan. This week our prompt isn't easy, because it starts with a Q and it refers to the once golden culture of the Inca. This week our prompt is Quetzalcoatl  the Sun God of the Inca.
So maybe your haiku can be about Sun, the Inca or the Andes for example. I hope you will be inspired by this prompt.


Quetzalcoatl
Here is my attempt to write a haiku on Quetzalcoatl:

as the day rises
Quetzalcoatl climbs the sky -
sparkling dew-drops

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is NOW open until next Friday August 15th at noon.


Friday, August 1, 2014

Haiku Shuukan #16, Persimmon


Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Time flies ... it's like sand that flows through my fingers ... a new week has come for Haiku Shuukan. This week I have a nice prompt for you to use for your inspiration. This week's prompt is Persimmon.
Persimmons are the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros. Diospyros is in the family Ebenaceae. The most widely cultivated species is the Asian persimmon, Diospyros kaki. In colour the ripe fruit of the cultivated strains range from light yellow-orange to dark red-orange depending on the species and variety. They similarly vary in size from 1.5 to 9 cm (0.5 to 4 in) in diameter, and in shape the varieties may be spherical, acorn-, or pumpkin-shaped.

Credits: Persimmon tree Yamagata, Japan

I am not familiar with this kind of fruit ... so I have sought for a few examples of haiku with Persimmon in it. It turned out that Shiki for example was completly into Persimmons and that he wrote a lot of haiku about them. Here are two examples (both translated by Susumu Takiguchi):
 
sanzen no haiku wo kemishi kaki futatsu   
 
having examined
three thousand haiku poems –
two persimmons
                 

© Shiki (1897)       
kaki bakari narabeshi Suma no komise kara          
displaying
only persimmons --
small store in Suma
         
 
© Shiki (1895)
I am really not familiar with this fruit, so I think I will pass this week and will not write a haiku here inspired on Persimmon.
 
This episode is open for your submissions at noon (CET) and will remain open until next Friday. Have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with Haiku Shuukan.