Carpe Diem #415, Yasaki-ji (Temple 47)

Dear O-Henro ... Haijin, visitors and travelers,

What a joy to read all your wonderful posts and haiku, but during lack of time I am a bit behind with commenting ... I will catch up as soon as possible.
Today I will not write a very big post, because I have not that much time. I would love to bring another part of the Zen state of haiku here to you. That theme is humor ... Zen-Buddhism (or shortly Zen) is very humorfull and so humor can and may be part of haiku. So I love to challenge you to write haiku with some humor in it. To me it isn't easy to bring humor into haiku, but ... of course I will try.

a couple of frogs
between the stepping stones
looking disturbed

(c) Chèvrefeuille

Today we will visit the 47th temple on our Shikoku Pilgrimage. That temple is named Yasaki-ji and is devoted to Amida Nyorai. There are several haiku by e.g. Issa with Amida Buddha mentioned it. I love to give an example:

"Praise Buddha!
All praise to Amida Buddha!"
manjusa flower

(c) Issa

Butterfly on Manjusa Flower (Lycoris Radiata)

Wow! What a beautiful flower. The Lycoris Radiata or Red Magic Lily or Red Spider Lily is part of the Amaryllis family and as you can see ... it's really a beauty.

This episode of Carpe Diem is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until March 8th 11.59 AM (CET). I will (try to) publish our new episode, Jodo-ji (Temple 49), later on today. Have fun, be inspired and share your humorfull haiku with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.

Share your humorfull haiku with us all here at our Haiku Kai.

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