Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
What a joy to start a new month of CDHK. After our "modern art" month I have another beautiful month for you I think. Maybe you can remember our special feature in which I challenged you to create haiku (or tanka) inspired on an image, or a photo, that special feature was titled "Carpe Diem Imagination". This month, while we are on our way to our fifth anniversary (next October), I love to challenge you to create haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form, inspired on an image I have chosen. Of course I love to read poems inspired on the given image, but I know that several of you don't love the idea to use images from others for their inspiration, and ... well if you have trouble with the use of the images I share than you may use images made by yourself. If you use an image made by yourself than please share a little background on your image if possible.
I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend. I had for sure a great weekend. Well let's take of with our first prompt of this month themed "Imagination Without Limits". Here is the first image which I love to share here. It was found on Tumblr, but I couldn't retrive the actual owner of the rights, so if you are or know the one who took the photo, please let me know.
What do we see? I see water and something that looks like a bridge or something. The bridge is broken and the path is ending ... there is no way of passing through ... or you have to have a boat or have to swim.
wet feet
broken bridge
ends my path
© Chèvrefeuille
Well ... I am looking forward to your responses and I hope to read gorgeous haiku ... no need to follow the classical rules, but if you want to ... feel free.
This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7:00 PM (CET) and will remain open until September 10th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode later on.
By the way you can find the theme for this month above in the menu, but you will not find a prompt-list, because I decide every day this month which image I am going to use.
Share your haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form (sedoka, dodoitsu, haiga for example) inspired on this image (or your own) with us all here at our Haiku Kai, the place to be if you like to write and share Japanese poetry.
| 1. | forestbather | 8. | Noor | 15. | tournesol (troiku) | |
| 2. | Ese | 9. | Suzanne | 16. | Paloma | |
| 3. | petra domina | 10. | Kim M. Russell | 17. | Pat R | |
| 4. | Nosaint Augustine | 11. | Isabel Caves | 18. | Sara McNulty | |
| 5. | Lovely Thing | 12. | Dolores | 19. | Virginia Popescu | |
| 6. | Jilly | 13. | H. Gunn (forestbather) | 20. | milan rajkumar | |
| 7. | humbird | 14. | Nicole Pottier |
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Another great idea for this month, great post and deceptively simple haiku. I search for this simplicity, that a Japanese man once told me was so complex to find.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, Lolly - greatly appreciated! I have always admired the poetry, created by you...and will!
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