!! I had forgotten to give the linking widget, so this 2nd day of our Vision Quest starts at 22.00 PM (CET) and will close tomorrow at 22.00 PM (CET) Sorry for this trouble ... !!!
Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
It's my pleasure to bring our second Vision Quest Day (and our CD-Special #118) with a haiku by our featured haiku poet Tomas Tranströmer. As you all know we are busy with our second Vision Quest in which you have to respond on the given prompt within 24 hours trying to look at the deeper layers of haiku, or in other words the spirituality in haiku. I think that the haiku by Tranströmer is a great start for this second Vision Quest day.
and the
night streams in
from east to west, traveling
in time with the moon
from east to west, traveling
in time with the moon
© Tomas Tranströmer
Can I write/compose a haiku in the same tone, sense and spirit as the one by Tranströmer? With looking deeper into the hidden layers, the spirituality in the haiku? I don't know, but I have to try of course. So here I go ...
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As I look at the scene in the above haiku than the first thing which came in mind is the eastern philosophy coming with the wind to the western world. We are (as you maybe know) now in the Age of Aquarius, the time in which humanity will grow in it's spirituality ... And than I see the moon in all her beauty and stages in front of my eyes ... she is the embodiment of time, so I have to use her image in my haiku ... Reading this haiku again and again ... I get the picture finally and than I see my Alter Ego, the Unknown haiku poet Yozakura ... he smiles at me and nods ... he whispers "you can do it" ... than the revelation, the scene, the Aha-moment ...
rustling bamboo leaves
whispering my deeper thoughts -
the bright moonlight
© Chèvrefeuille
This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open for just 24 hours until November 22nd at 7.00 PM (CET). I will publish our third day of our Vision Quest later on. Than we have transformation for prompt ... For now ... have fun!
Superbly done - your intro realy built the haiku up. And one of your really fine haiku there. In fact your whole post seems to shine with happiness..
ReplyDeleteI don't seem to find the link app - here it's 21:20 Rome time .. so I'll send this along like this while I've still got a connection .. great post! https://bastetandsekhmet.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/carpe-diem-special-tomas-transtromers-fourth-haiku-november-21-2014/
ReplyDeleteSo well done. (though I read another interpretation.. but this is the wonderful thing. we can all make our own interpretations.. I have been a little busy for a while.. and might do a little less entries...
ReplyDeleteIt's always wonderful to see how the muses work - what your thoughts are as you dig for meaning and sort that meaning into words --- This is great! :)
ReplyDeleteI worked very hard on this concept and just crept in under the wire.
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