Sunday, November 9, 2014

Carpe Diem Special #116, Tomas Tranströmer's "and the frigid sea"


Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's time for our second CD-Special by Tomas Tranströmer, our featured haiku-poet (and Nobel-Prize winner) this month.
I learned to know this haiku-poet by Björn. I had never heard of him, but recently I read an article in the magazine of the Dutch Haiku Association (HKN) about him and I was "sold". What a wonderful haiku Tranströmer has written and what a great idea to know that he got the Nobel Prize for Literature ... awesome ... don't you think so too?

For this CD-Special I have the following haiku by Tranströmer for your inspiration ... the goal is to write/compose an all new haiku inspired on his haiku trying to become in his sense, tone and spirit.

Credits: Oak Tree and The Moon
Oak trees and the moon.
Light and mute constellations.
And the frigid sea


© Tomas Tranströmer


This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until November 12th at noon (CET). I will try to post our next episode, symbiotic, later on.
Share your inspired haiku with us all.
1. Haiku Plate Special  7. Blake  13. like an apple  
2. opie houston  8. Rallentanda  14. Mark M. Redfearn  
3. Magical Mystical Teacher  9. Tournesol  15. Georgia@Bastet's Waka Library  
4. Björn  10. Janice  16. jazzytower  
5. Lovely Thing  11. Dolores  17. E A M Harris  
6. Sky  12. Jen @ Blog It Or Lose It  

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