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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
Welcome at a new episode of our wonderful Haiku Kai. We are here to create and share Japanese poetry and this month our theme is Love. This month we celebrate Love in all its beauty. I have chosen this theme because of the fact that we celebrate Valentine's Day on February 14th, but also because I love to explore Love as a theme for haiku.
Love ... we all can relate to it I think, it's not only the love between people, but also between plants, flowers, insects, animals and the love for something. I love my wife and kids, but I also fell in love with haiku back in 1988.
As you all know haiku is about nature, deeper meaning and so on. Tanka once was the poetry of love between people, it was used as a kind of secret love-letter, and is therefore known as a love poem. Haiku ... is mostly not seen as a love poem, but this month I hope to explore it ... together with you all. Are you with me?
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| Love is a challenge (photo © Sachar Gilad) |
Love is one of the most important emotions I think, and Unconditional Love is what we need here on our planet, because unconditional love has no boundaries and will always reach out to other people around you and around the world.
without boundaries
I open my heart to spread love
on wings of birds
© Chèvrefeuille
With love we can reach out towards people around us. Love is really the only way to spread peace all over the globe.
Spread love,
Chèvrefeuille
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until February 9th at noon (CET)
Non-romantic love I can do. Anytime the subject is romantic love, my response will either be snarky or dark. That is an area of my life that led to nothing but pain and regret.
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