Carpe Diem #637, Departing Year

!! I am a bit early with posting this new episode. This week we will not have a Carpe Diem Time Glass episode !!

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

2014 Is running to an end and than we will have a whole new year, 2015, ahead of us. A year with new wonderful prompts, featured haiku-poets, articles and of course our new features "Time-Machine" and "Kukai". But that's for next month, I am busy with creating our prompt-list, but I don't think I will be on time ... of course I will try to publish our new list before the end of 2014, but I can't promise that.

Ok back to the episode of today. Today our prompt is departing year, and it is extracted from Jane Reichhold's "A Dictionary of Haiku" ... it's a nice prompt I think and it fits (of course) the time of year ... Here is Jane's example of this prompt:

slow rains

as if leaves were falling
at winter's end

© Jane Reichhold

I think this is a beauty ... How to write a nice new haiku myself for this prompt? I have to try of course ... so here I go:

departing summer
trees losing their green leaves -
thousand colors in return

© Chèvrefeuille

Not really a haiku for this time of year, but I think it's a nice one to give an image to departing.

Ok ... another one ... more in the image and time of this year:

sweeping the garden
at the end of this year
to start fresh

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until January 1st at noon (CET). I will try to post our last episode of this year, our last GW-post of this year, later on.PS.: I will have no GW-posts next month, because I will have another prompt-idea ... haiku-writing techniques . So January will have no GW-posts but instead Haiku writing skills will be on Wednesdays.