Carpe Diem #950 dreams

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

What a joy to be "back in business" and it's good to read that you all are glad that CDHK is back.

Marten Luther King once said "I have a dream". His dream is still alive in this time of life and I think his dream will stay a dream for a long time. I really belief that there will be a time in which everyone is equal notwithstanding religious background or race. Maybe I am a dreamer, but ... well let me be a dreamer than.

I am a fan of Supertramp so I just had to share this video with you for your inspiration. Today our prompt to create haiga with is dreams ...

You all will have dreams, just like me. Once I dreamed that I should write a novel, and I did. Once I had a dream to become a haiku poet, and I did. Once I had a dream to become a dad, and I did I even have become a granddad and maybe, if my life will go on as it does now I will (I hope and I dream) become a great-granddad.
Once I had a dream to create a website in which haiku poets could share their haiku ... and I did. Thanks to you all my dear haiku family members CDHK became real and CDHK is still real.

clouds
changing every moment
dreams come alive

© Chèvrefeuille

photo © wikipedia - haiku © Chèvrefeuille

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until April 11th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our next episode, the first CD-Special of April by our "time' kukai winner Sara McNulty, later on. Have fun!

Carpe Diem #438, dreams

Dear Haijin,visitors and travelers,

Spring has started really now ... what a joy to see how Mother Earth is getting back her colorful face ... this is were we all have dreamed about as winter ruled the world. The sweet scent of blossoming trees and flowers. The thousands of green colors of the new leaves ... finally a dream came true ... spring is here in all her beauty. One of the examples for this prompt written by Jane Reichhold:

dreaming I was
the sleeve of your coat
I learned your secret

Reverent Marten Luther King had a dream too ... equality for all races, he is quoted a lot with his one-liner "I have a dream" (I have even used his quote for one of our features at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special), but that dream is still a dream as we all know. There are still politicians who are calling for un-equality of races. Here in The Netherlands a man, Geert Wilders, is such a politician. Not my kind of politics.

Reverent Marten Luther King

I was brought up with the idea of "Love your neighbor like yourself" and that is still my drive to do what I do,  e.g. in my work as an oncology-nurse, love is the emotion which is the strongest drive for me. As an haiku-poet I try to expose that unconditional love for everyone and everything through my haiku ... For this episode I wrote a cascading haiku as I was inspired and on a roll.

dreaming of a new day
a new world of equality
full of strong love

full of strong love
I compose haiku for the world
sharing my dreams

sharing my dreams
with everyone and everthing
a new spring day

a new spring day
as thousand birds sing their song
in praise of God

in praise of God
nature is coming back to life
living its dream

(c) Chèvrefeuille

Credits: Shaper of Dreams

Give words to your dreams and be inspired by this post to write your haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka or haibun and share your dream with our haiku-family at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.
This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until April 7th 12.59 AM (CET). I will try to post our new episode laterer on today.

Namaste