Carpe Diem Special #221 Candy's Showcase first " promise in red clouds "

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at our first Carpe Diem Special of December 2016. As you all know Candy won our "tribute to Jane" kukai with the following haiku:

morning walk
trailing behind me
only footprints

© Candy

With this haiku she won not only the opportunity to create an exclusive CDHK e- book, but also being our featured haiku poetess of this month. Candy's weblog: Rhymeswithbug you can find by clicking on the link.

This is what Candy says about herself: "I am a reader, writer, and snapper of photos in my garden. The tiny creatures I find there are my muses".

I have already started to create her E-book which I have given the "work-title": footprints and I love to share here a few of Candy's haiku to inspire you.

pray for rain upon
this thirsty patch of terra
promise in red clouds

red clouds

Another nice one, this time a very delicate and fragile scene:

butterfly follows
the scent and hue of flowers
feast on zinnia

And a last one to inspire you:

flock of black birds
origami in the sky
fall migration

© Candy

Candy is a very gifted haiku poet and has written wonderful haiku and tanka, but maybe tanka is for a next CD-Special.

I hope I have inspired you with the beautiful poetry of Candy.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until December 9th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our next episode,

Share your haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form inspired on these beauties by Candy with us all here at our HaikuKai.

1.	forestbather //	5.	B i r g i t t a	9.	Blake
2.	Shokunin	6.	petra domina	10.	Janice (Ontheland)
3.	Sky	7.	Kim M. Russell	11.	Sara McNulty
4.	Virginia Popescu	8.	dolores

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