Carpe Diem #514 Chiyo-Ni (3), Morning Glories

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

What a joy to prepare another episode of CDHK's month of the 'big five' haiku-poets. Today we have our third haiku by Chiyo-Ni and as you maybe know she wrote several haiku about Morning Glories. So in this episode I will share a few of those Morning Glory haiku by Chiyo-Ni starting with the most known of them I think.

asano eikou yoku baketto entanguru watashiha mizuwo motomeru

morning glory!
the well bucket-entangled,
I ask for water

© Chiyo-Ni

Chiyo-Ni (woodblock-print)

And here are two other Morning Glory haiku composed by Chiyo-Ni:

morning glories --
awakened
in the middle of a dream

morning glory -
the truth is
the flower hates people

© Chiyo-Ni

And here are two haiku which I wrote in an earlier post here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. The Morning Glory is a wonderful, beautiful flower, but it last only one morning and than it's flower are already decaying. So those flowers are really like a glorious sunrise.
I can understand why Chiyo-Ni wrote haiku about Morning Glories ... it's a very nice Zen-Buddhistic flower ... which stands for the transience of life as our life is too.

Morning Glories
have overgrown the wooden fence
I take the back one

© Chèvrefeuille 

Credits: Morning Glory

one single Morning Glory
along the path of the cloister
for just one day

© Chèvrefeuille

And a last one just composed as I am preparing this episode about Chiyo-Ni's Morning Glory haiku.

in an eye blinck
Morning Glory opens her flowers
just for one day

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... isn't it a beauty ... in that last one I hope that I have caught the essence of life and it's transience in a comparison with the Morning Glory. I loved preparing this episode about Chiyo-Ni and I hope it will inspire you to write haiku and share them with our haiku-family.

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until July 16th at noon (CET). I will try to post our next episode, our third haiku by Buson, later on.

Share your haiku on Morning Glories or inspired on the haiku I gave in this post with us all here at our Haiku Kai.

1.	Arushi Ahuja	6.	JulesPaige haiku kai	11.	Mark M. Redfearn
2.	Haiku Circle	7.	Magical Mystical Teacher	12.	Jen @ Blog It Or Lose It
3.	Maniparna Sengupta Majumder	8.	Haiku Plate Special	13.	usha menon
4.	Ese	9.	Jessica Slavin	14.	Tea, Poems and Pictures
5.	Pirate	10.	Georgia @ Bastet's Waka Library	15.	Sara McNulty

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