Carpe Diem Romancing Haiku #3 first love

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Well ... haiku as a love poem ... it's not a renown way of writing haiku as a love poem, but I believe that haiku is one of the best poetry forms for love poems. That's the goal of this special feature ... creating love-haiku ... as once was tanka (or waka).

Let me give you a few examples of "love-haiku" written by classical and modern haiku poets:

the rainbow stands
in a moment
as if you are here.

© Takahama Kyoshi(1874-1959)

I want to see
and to meet you
with stepping on the thin ice.

© Mayuzumi Madoka(1962-)

wear loosely*
and meet the man
at the night of firefly.

© Katsura Nobuko(1914-2004)

*The way of loose wearing kimono meant trust a man.

As we have read above ... haiku can be used as a love poem ... and that's a real challenge. Have fun!

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until May 9th at noon (CEST). Have fun ... take up the challenge to create a love haiku.

Carpe Diem Romancing Haiku #2 mountain

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

What a joy ... a new episode of our brand new feature "Carpe Diem Romancing Haiku" for you all. As I stated in the first episode of this feature "I think haiku can be a love poem too, as tanka once was meant to be". In our first episode I had chosen the theme "beach" for you. For this episode I have chosen the theme "mountain".

Here at CDHK we have often seen the theme "mountain" so I think it will not a big problem to create love-haiku themed "mountain".

An example by myself:

watching a geisha
monk from high up in the mountains
he's also a man

© Chèvrefeuille

Mount Fuji

Or this one, more a love-poem without bringing love up actually, but in the deeper layer this is also a love-haiku:

drinking tea

on the porch of a mountain hut -

the almost full moon

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... enjoy this challenge to create a "love-haiku" themed "mountain". 

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until April 29th at noon (CEST). Have fun ...!

Carpe Diem's Romancing Haiku #1 beach

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

What a nice weekend this will become I think. I was inspired and I have a new feature for you to work with. Again a feature for only haiku, as are the roots van CDHK. You all know that tanka is THE Japanese poetry form for love. Tanka we know mostly as a love poem, but I think (and I have said this often here at CDHK) that haiku can also be a love poem that's why I have created this new feature "Romancing Haiku".

For this first episode of Carpe Diem's Romancing Haiku I have chosen a theme. I think that the beach is one of the best places to find romance. And I even have written a few haiku themed beach in which I think romance was the second theme.

torn apart clothes
thrown against a beach pole
a winter's love

bare footed

wandering about the nude beach

in heart of winter

Beach Love

the sound of waves

accompanies hot steamy love -

seagulls cry

a whisper of rain

awakens me gently

morning on the beach

© Chèvrefeuille

I think really that haiku can be a love poem too. So that's were this new feature is about ... romancing haiku ...

I hope I have inspired you to create romancing haiku ... so let's go create ....

This first episode of "romancing haiku" is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until April 21st at noon (CEST). I will try to publish this new feature weekly.