Carpe Diem Imagination With Paul Militaru #5 autumn willow

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at our last "Imagination With Paul Militaru" episode. This month I had the privilege to use the beautiful photos by Paul Militaru to inspire you. Paul is a brilliant photographer and his photos are really awesomeMore of his beautiful photos you can find at: Paul Militaru, Photograph Portfolio His website is really worth visiting.

For this last "Imagination With ..." episode I have found a wonderful photo in which autumn, the season running on the Northern hemisphere, is beautifully portrait. And this beauty brought a nice waka in mind by Saigyo, and I think you know this waka ...

alongside the path
fresh water flows, and
in the willow’s shade
just for a little while
would I take my ease..

© Saigyo (1118-1190)


This waka we have seen very often here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai and I cannot go on with this episode without the haiku Basho once wrote in response on this waka:

one patch of a rice field when it was planted I left the willow tree © Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)

Here is the photo by Paul Militaru to inspire you:

Autumn Willow (photo © Paul Militaru)

Isn't it a beauty? I hope this autumn willow will inspire you to create haiku or tanka.

Here are a few poems from my archives: weeping willow

in the autumn sunlight
a golden tree

© Chèvrefeuille

autumn departs
in deep silence willow leaves fall -
tears on this grave
as the willow is green again
another year has gone

© Chèvrefeuille

tears of a geisha
her virginity lost to a soldier -
pussy willow blooms

© Chèvrefeuille

And of course I had to try to create a new haiku (or tanka):

bright blue sky a natural frame work autumn willow

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until November 2nd at noon (CET). I will try to post our next episode, feather pen (Or quill pen), later on. For now ... have fun!

PS I am busy with creating our new CDHK prompt-list for next month. November will be our first Tanka month here. I hope to improve your and mine tanka writing technique through the Ten Tanka Writing Techniques by Teika.

Carpe Diem Imagination with Paul Militaru #4 kissing gate

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new Carpe Diem Imagination with Paul Militaru, a very gifted photographer and poet. Paul has created wonderful photos and I am glad and grateful that I may use his photos in this festive anniversary month to inspire you.

I have found another beauty and I hope it will inspire you to create haiku, tanka or another Japanese poetry form.

For this episode I have a beautiful photo from the so called "kissing gate" by Brancusi at tg.jiu. Isn't it a wonderful idea to walk through this gate, linger for a moment under it to kiss your beloved one?

Wow ... what a beauty and the name of this gate can certainly inspire you to create a lovely haiku or tanka ... maybe you can try to bring some sensuality and romance into your poem ...

Please if you use the photo in your post credit Paul Militaru. 

late summer evening
a quick kiss and a touch
we enter the park

© Chèvrefeuille

Another one ...

hot summer night
nude bodies folded together
under the gate

© Chèvrefeuille

I was inspired through this photo ...

at sunrise
I awake next to beauty
under the gate
torn apart clothes around us
and used rubbers

© Chèvrefeuille

Sorry that last one is maybe to much .... but my fantasy was on a roll (smiles)

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until October 27th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our next episode, embroidery thread, later on.

Carpe Diem Imagination With Paul Militaru #3 the Holy Bible

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's time again for our special guest's beautiful photos to use for your imagination to create a haiku or tanka. Today I have a nice photo of the Holy Bible made by Paul. I hope this photo will inspire you to create haiku or tanka.

If you use the photo in your post please add Paul's website towards it. Paul Militaru, photography portfolio. (https://photopaulm.com)

Well .... be inspired ....

the holy scripture
torn apart dances away
on the wind

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until October 19th at noon (CET). I will try to post our new episode, camera, later on.

PS. The link towards Dolores' e-book "First Magnolia Bloom" works again.

Carpe Diem Imagination with Paul Militaru #2 "gentle scent of lavender"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's my pleasure to present to you our new episode of Carpe Diem Imagination with Paul Militaru. Paul has granted me permission to use his awesome photos this month to inspire you and I hope that I have chosen another nice photo by Paul Militaru (URL: https://photopaulm.com)

I have chosen a beautiful photo titled "gentle scent of lavender" and I think it will inspire you all to create a wonderful haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form. If you use the photo by Paul Militaru in your post please give him the credits he deserves and point your visitors to his website as found above.

gentle scent of lavender

And here is my response inspired on this beautiful photo. This time I have tried to create a tanka:

lavender field

their perfume overwhelms me

pleasant dreams

a lavender stuffed pillow

Ah! that perfume

© Chèvrefeuille

Or what do you think of this haiku, chosen from my archives:

lavender flowers -

bumblebees collecting honey

in the backyard

© Chèvrefeuille

And I have given it a try to create another tanka right at the moment as I am preparing this episode:

her pillow
the sweet perfume of lavender
arouses my senses

morning glory grows
embraces the warmth of the sun

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... I hope you did like this Imagination with Paul Militaru episode and that Paul's photo is inspiring you.

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until October 12th at noon (CET). I will (try to) publish our new episode, 3D printer, later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem Imagination with Paul Militaru #1 rest

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at our fourth anniversary month, October 2016. As you can see I have created an all new celebration logo for this month, but I have a few new logos too to present to you ...

Four years ago I started Carpe Diem Haiku Kai just for fun and pleasure. Then I hadn't thought that four years later Carpe Diem Haiku Kai would be still alive. Imagine ... as I started CDHK for fun and you would have asked me were I would be in the future, say 5 years later, than I would have said "I don't know, but this daily meme would be gone". I really couldn't dreamed that CDHK will be alive and kicking, but ... as we celebrate this month our 4th anniversary than I am happy, proud, but also humble. "Who am I that I can do this. Who am I still your host at CDHK. Thank you all.

Today we will start with our first guest of this month, Paul Militaru, a very gifted poet, but also a wonderful photographer. Paul has given me permission to use photos created by him to inspire you here at CDHK.
For this month I have re-created our special CD feature Imagination, in which I tried to inspire you through images, photos and more. This month I have titled that "old special feature" Carpe Diem Imagination With Paul Militaru.

This month's special logo for CD Imagination with Paul Militaru. (Background image found on Pinterest)

On his weblog: Paul Militaru Photography Portfolio he says the following about him self:

[...] "The first school I’ve finished was University of Construction, beeing construction engineer, and the second one was University of Mathematics and Computer Science.After this one I’ve done Master in Computer Science.

The last school was Arts and Technical Photography.The photography fascinated me from childhood, and the first camera, was a Smena, a russian camera on film.I’ve started to shoot in 1983.
Today I use DSLR cameras, but I don’t forget the film cameras, so I shoot on film even today.One day I’ll post photos done on film.
The conclusion is I love to learn, to read, and of course visual arts.I like paintings and pictures, classical and crossover music, I like mountains and the sea, everything is beautiful.
My vision in photography is a little bit different from others, I prefer to set my camera as perfectly as I can, and to use software (Lightroom or Photoshop), for little rares and to put my name on it.
I use different cameras, from Olympus, Pentax to Nikon or Canon fullframe for digital photography and on film from Voigtlander to Nikon even Russian cameras, and be sure I love them all." [...]

Please visit his weblog for wonderful photos ... he owns that honor, because he gave us CDHK the opportunity to celebrate our fourth anniversary.

Here is the first photo to inspire you:

"Rest" © Paul Militaru

Here is my haiku inspired on this photo:

the cooing of pigeons
no longer resonates through the street
peaceful end of day

© Chèvrefeuille

Let this photo inspire you and please, if you use the photo for your post give Paul Militaru credit for it. Thank you Paul that I may use your photos to inspire the Carpe Diem Haiku Family members in thsi celebration month.

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until October 5th at noon (CET). I will (try to) publish our new episode, pen and inkstone, later on. For now .... have fun!!