Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
This Haiku Kai has once started out of my own joy to promote my beloved haiku. Since October 2012, as I started, our Haiku Kai has grown (and still growing) and has become a family of haiku poets from all over the world.
As I prepare this episode, Embrace (provided by Maggie Grace), I couldn't help to think about our haiku family. It feels like a warm embrace and as I read all of your contributed haiku, senry, tanka and other forms of Japanese poetry, it gives me a real warm feeling. I think that this family provides enough safety and freedom to open up and share with loving joy your feelings and thoughts with haiku. That makes me a proud and humble host. I am blessed with all of your love.
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So with this episode I give you all a (virtual) warm embrace, a hug ... thank you all for being a family-member of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. Especially for you all, my dear haijin, friends, visitors and travelers, I love to share a cascading, non-classical, haiku:
like a family
you my dear friends I embrace -
unconditional love
unconditional love
shared by a bunch of haiku poets
from all over the world
from all over the world
haijin come together to share
like a family
This prompt will stay on 'til October 13th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our new episode, Tea (provided by Cathy Tenzo), later on today around 7.00 PM (CET).
!! Embrace is open for your submissions at 7.00 PM (CET) !!
It gives a fuzzy feeling to think of all the fine people I have met through Carpe Diem. Thank you, Kristjaan, for bringing us all together through our mutual love for haiku and other Japanese short poetry forms.
ReplyDeleteThat is a lovely set. :-)
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you are dear to us as well Kristjaan!!!
ReplyDeleteAh.. what a wonderful thought. we are friends across oceans and over continents...
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What you wrote touches my heart and your haiku so beautiful. Thank you, Kristjaan.
ReplyDeleteWhat a loving post ~ and endearing cascading haiku ~ and hugs to you also and thanks for creating this excellent blog meme for haiku and other style writers ~ happy weekend to you, carol, xo
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to let you all know that I probably will be absent from your blogs for several days. My laptop died this afternoon, and I'm having to work from a borrowed computer at a friend's house. Sorry!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kristjaan, very warm words..
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