Carpe Diem #465, Sacrifice

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Sacrifice ... giving all, even life ... that's sacrifice, but what has sacrifice to do with haiku? Not much I think. To me writing haiku is no sacrifice, hosting CDHK isn't a sacrifice. Of course it takes a lot of time, but a sacrifice? No .....
On the other hand ... haiku has a lot to do with sacrifice ...! Every haiku-poet wrote a Jisei or Deathpoem. Sacrifice to the max. Living our life fully as a haiku-poet, close to nature giving up all luxery, looking for that one moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water to write THE all time perfect haiku ... day in, day out ... that's sacrifice.
I love to share here a few Jisei, death poems, of a few haiku poets (unknown and known):

heading to the end

treading through heavy snow
way of the brush

© Wakyu

it's become a habit
bowing to the west
New Year’’s dawn

© Wagin

fallen ill on a journey
my dreams
wander over withered fields

© Basho

(Source: Haiku by David Anderson )

Credits: Runes

This prompt was referring to the legend "Odin's Discovery of the Runes" which you can read HERE 

I have tried to wrote a ''deathpoem" myself ... it's not my intention to die soon, but sometimes I think about what to write on to my tombstone. So I thought a Jisei had to be it ...

finally peace
one with nature and the Universe
a haiku myself

(c) Chèvrefeuille

This episode will be open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until May 14th at noon. I will try to post our next episode, Raven, later on today for now ... just have fun!

Share your haiku inspired on our post for today with us all here at our Haiku Kai. Don't you like to write a daily haiku? Maybe Haiku Shuukan (a weekly haiku meme) is an idea.

1.	JulesPaige haiku kai	5.	Jen @ Blog It or Lose It	9.	kaykuala
2.	Bjorn	6.	Haiku Plate Special	10.	Ramesh Sood
3.	Hamish 'Managua' Gunn	7.	Georgia @ Bastet and Sekhmet's Library	11.	becca givens
4.	Sky V	8.	Kuheli S	12.	Sara McNulty

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