Carpe Diem Special #143, Kala Ramesh's "wild violets"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Time flies and so we have already our fourth CD-Special by our featured haiku poet Kala Ramesh. It's really a joy to read her haiku and they are all wonderful in my opinion. Today I have chosen a haiku which brought me a haiku in mind by Basho (1644-1694). Why? Because of the theme ... violets.

seek on high bare trails
sky-reflecting violets...
mountain-top jewels

© Basho (1644-1694)

It's also a nice haiku and it has the same theme as this beauty by Kala:

wild violets . . .
he finally agrees
to the path I took

© Kala Ramesh

Credits: Wild Violets

 Well ... as you all (maybe) know the goal of the CD-Specials is to write a haiku in the same sense, tone and spirit as the one given.

Here is my attempt to write a haiku in the spirit of Kala:

the roadside
covered with colorful violets
and horse droppings

© Chèvrefeuille

Hm .... not a strong haiku, but I like that little twist in it.

This CD-Special is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until April 23th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, a new Ghost Writer post, later on.

 

Share your haiku inspired on the haiku by Kala Ramesh with us all here at our Haiku Kai.

1.	Sky	8.	Dolores	15.	Mark M. Redfearn
2.	Tinker	9.	A Creative Harbor	16.	opie houston
3.	gillena	10.	Magical Mystical Teacher	17.	Thotpurge
4.	Rall	11.	Maniparna Sengupta Majumder	18.	Suzanne
5.	Janice	12.	Paloma	19.	Vyomi
6.	Greg Wolford	13.	Bastet	20.	Blake
7.	mira	14.	Tournesol

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