Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
I need your help. I am starting soon with the creation of our new prompt-list, the first for 2015, but for that new month of Carpe Diem I need your help. One of our participants and family-members, Girl Friday, suggested the following: Carpe Diem has been on line for more than two years. There were great prompts which I missed, because I found your weblog only this year. Why don't you make a new feature in which you bring the reprise of wonderful prompts from the history of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai?
You will remember our second anniversary month last October in which I used all prompts from our history and now I have the idea, brought to me by Girl Friday, to make another month of reprise-prompts. So why I need your help? Well ... I will ask you all:
"Which prompt from our Carpe Diem Haiku Kai you want to see again in a reprise month next January? You can leave your suggestions in the comment-field. I will start creating our new prompt-list after Christmas, so please if you have an idea for a reprise-prompt let me know before, say December 28th 2014".
I am looking forward to your choices.
Have a great and magical Christmas time and I hope you all will have a wonderful New Year's Eve and a very happy 2015 in which you all, I hope, will be here again .... I hope you all will have a very inspirational 2015 and I am looking forward to all of your wonderful haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka and haibun.
Namaste,
Chèvrefeuille, your host
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I suggest that we start off the new year with prompts from Reichhold's BARE BONES...Lessons 10 and 11 address many different forms of haiku and ideas for haiku....That would give us a running/LEARNING start for the new year....
ReplyDeleteYes --- I send this motion :)
DeleteI like that suggestion from Opie!!
ReplyDeleteIf we do reprise .. I like the kigo one the most..
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pays homage
for #68
I've started already :-)
I love them all. Can't wait for January
#82/#66/#74/#68
It's like being a child, set free in a sweet shop
Beautiful!!
DeleteHello Chevrefeuille --
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, THANK YOU for all the work you put into Carpe Diem. I've really enjoyed the prompts here and have grown so much. You're a wonderful support to all of us, and for that I'm grateful :)
Looking forward to more fun, more learning, more challenges in 2015!
Which prompts to reprise? That's a challenge in itself! Cliffs of Moher and Dreamtide could be rewarding, as could both the kyoka and anything involving humor. I've also missed our good friend Shiki.
I have really enjoyed the prompts about nature generally - recently the snow ones, mountain cabin. The journey through Siberia with Coelho remains a highlight and was such a brilliant, innovative idea, so well done, as were the Santiago de Compostela and Japan temples. The kigo are very good.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy seasonal references and kigo words the most.If the prompt isn't a traditional kigo prompt I have a tendency to turn it into one anyway.
ReplyDeleteI love Opie's idea.
A very pleasant new year may 2015 be.
ReplyDeleteI always like fresh prompts myself. If you're going to go back and use old ones, why not just do it once or twice a month, not for a full month? After all, new people stumble across Carpe Diem all the time, and I don't think it's too much to ask that they just join us where we are, not where we were once upon a time.
ReplyDeleteSome of the prompts could be Holidays around the world. Check out the hundreds of ways people celebrate by country: http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/ireland/
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