Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
Welcome at a new episode in our celebration month. This month we celebrate our 7th brithday. I started with CDHK back in October 2012, just for fun and giving people the opportunity to create haiku (or other Japanese poetry form) on a daily base.
There were times in our 7 years that I thought of closing the website. For example there was a discussion about using the published poetry in our exclusive CDHK E-book line. That discussion wasn't a nice one and we lost several of our CDHK family-members. As you all know here at CDHK we have now a publishing policy which you can find at the bottom of our Kai.
Today I have another beautiful "small creature" for you. I think we have seen that "small creature" earlier here on CDHK ... today our prompt, our "small creature" is Dragonfly.
dragonfly dances
above the old pond of Basho -
the sound of water
wings reflecting sunlight
on young green leaves
© Chèvrefeuille
This above tanka is one of the first I wrote, because tanka is not my cup of tea, as you all know. And this one I found (back) in my archives.
As you know we read a lot of haiku by classical and non-classical masters. Here are a few haiku themed "dragonfly" written by classical masters:
I found a nice haiku written by Buson about a dragonfly:
Its tail un-dyed
How charming--
A red dragonfly
And a nice one by Kobayashi Issa:
the dragonfly
settles to sleep...
on the scarecrow
Really wonderful haiku about dragonflies and to enclose this introduction to our new prompt I love to share a haiku by "my master", Matsuo Basho:
Crimson pepper pod
add two pairs of wings, and look
darting dragonfly
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until October 10th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new weekend meditation later on.
Share your inspired Japanese poetry with us all here at our wonderful Haiku Kai were we are celbrating our 7th birthday.
| 1. | Virginia Popescu | 4. | Kim M. Russell | 7. | Madasahatter572 | |
| 2. | Cressida | 5. | Nicole Pottier | 8. | lynn__ | |
| 3. | the real cie | 6. | Linda Lee Lyberg |
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