Carpe Diem Extra February 3rd 2018 The Judging starts

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Our first Troiku Kukai was a great success. There were 22 contestants which delivered the same amount of Troiku. This first Troiku Kukai we also have to Judge .. so that's why I publish this CDHK Extra episode.

The Troiku was based on the following haiku by Claire Vogel Camargo:

no spring sprouts
in the herb garden
his heart attack

© Claire Vogel Camargo

I have read wonderful Troiku inspired on this haiku and I am so glad that I have seen a lot of new names ... Of course I hope to see those new names more often here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, but we will see.

You can find the Troiku Kukai above in the menu "Carpe Diem's Kukai" or by clicking HERE

 

The judging of this 1st edition of our CDHK Troiku kukai goes the same as all other kukai. So you may give 3 points to the best Troiku; 2 points to the 2nd best Troiku and 1 point to the 3rd best Troiku. Of course you can not give points to your own Troiku.

The "winner" of the Troiku Kukai wins the opportunity to create his / her own exclusive Carpe Diem Haiku Kai E-book and the "runner-up" will be featured in a special episode at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.

The judging starts NOW. Please send your judging results to our emailaddress:

carpediemhaiku@gmail.com

Please write "Judging Troiku Kukai" in the subject line.

You can send us your judging results until February 24th 10:00 PM (CET).

 

Carpe Diem Extra November 11th 2017 - judging "departure" kukai starts today

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It has taken some time, but today the judging is open for the "departure" kukai. You can find the submitted haiku for this "departure" kukai above in the menu or by clicking HERE.

There were 7 contestants who have written / submitted 18 haiku. It's not a long list this time. I don't feel the urge to create a new kukai at the moment, but that's more because of the low range of submissions this time.

The judging is open until November 25th at 10:00 PM (CET)

Namasté,

Chèvrefeuille, your host

Carpe Diem Sunflower kukai, the judging begins

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I have gathered all the entries for the Sunflower kukai and today the judging starts. You can find all the submitted haiku (without names of course) above in the menu.

You can give points to three of the submitted haiku, of course not your own. You can give 3 points for the best haiku, 2 points for the second best haiku and 1 point for the third best haiku.

You can email your points to our email-address: carpediemhaikukai@gmail.com please write "judging sunflower" in the subject line.

The judging starts right now and closes on July 10th at 10:00 PM (CET)

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departure

Here is the theme for our next kukai:

DEPARTURE

You can submit a maximum of three haiku themed "departure" to our emailaddress carpediemhaikukai@gmail.com please write "kukai departure" in the subject-line. The kukai closes on Sunday July 23rd at 10:00 PM (CET).

Have a great week.

Carpe Diem Kukai Cherry Blossom - The Results

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It is my pleasure to announce the results of our Cherry Blossom kukai. This CD-Kukai edition had 25 haiku submitted by nine (9) haiku poets. It was really a joy to read them all and to re-read them all to judge them.

It is my pleasure to announce to you that Ese has won this CD-Kukai with the following haiku:

old gardener
still sees her smile
in cherry blossoms

© Ese

A beauty I would say and I think it has won through the strong emotions in the scene.

And our "runner-up", with a beautiful haiku too is Kim Russell with the following haiku:

pink sakura blush   

spring’s kimono falls to earth

silk snatched by a breeze

© Kim Russell

Congratulations to you both with being the winner and the "runner-up". As you all know the winner, Ese, has won the opportunity to create an exclusive CDHK E-book of a maximum of 50 haiku or 30 pages, of course this negotiable.

And the "runner-up", Kim Russell, won the opportunity to create her own Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu episode. (This is different with the other kukai we have had).

Here are the results of the complete Cherry Blossom kukai:

10 points: haiku 9
7 points: haiku 15
6 points: haiku 1
5 points: haiku 5
3 points: haiku 11 & 21
2 points: haiku 2, 6, 8, 20 & 22
1 point: haiku 3, 10, 17 & 18
0 points: haiku 4, 7, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 23, 24 & 25

Sunflower Reflection

Here is our new kukai theme: Sunflowers

Our new kukai starts today, April 28th and will run to May 19th 10.00 PM (CET). You can submit your haiku, with a maximum of three (3) haiku, to our email-address: carpediemhaikukai@gmail.com Please write  "kukai sunflowers" in the subject-line of your email.

I am looking forward to your haiku.

For closure I love to share a "sunflower"-haiku written by myself:

broken sunflower

torn apart through a rain storm -

puddles on the path

© Chèvrefeuille

Carpe Diem Extra March 18th 2017 judging the cherry blossom kukai

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I have gathered all the entries for the "cherry blossom" kukai. There were nine contestants who submitted a total of 25 haiku for this kukai.

The judging starts today right now and will run until April 1st 2017 at 10.00 PM (CET).

See the list of beautiful haiku HERE.

Good Luck!

Email your judging to: carpediemhaikukai@gmail.com Please write judging cherry blossom kukai in the subject line.

Namastè,

Chèvrefeuille, your host.

PS. Maybe you have noticed it already, but in menu above you can now find a preview of one of our exclusive CDHK E-books. I will change that preview once a month. This time you can read a preview of "In The Way of Basho", an e-book about the haiku writing techniques used by Basho.

Carpe Diem Kukai "Autumn", the judging starts

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It has taken a lot of time, but finally I have the opportunity to start with the judging for the "autumn"-kukai. As you all know the "autumn" kukai was the last kukai of 2016 and it ended at the beginning of November. So I am really late with this kukai. My excuses for that.

You can email your points, 3 for the best haiku, 2 for the second best haiku and 1 for the third best haiku, before December 20th 10.00 PM (CET), to our email address: carpediemhaikukai@gmail.com Please write judging autumn kukai in the subject line.

This kukai we had a few new participants and I am looking forward to the points for those newbies. Of course you can not vote for your own haiku.

You can find the anonymous list of submitted haiku above in the menu or by clicking HERE.

Good luck !!

Carpe Diem Extra July 15th 2016 Kukai Prayers

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I have published the submitted haiku for our "Prayers" kukai. So the judging is now open. Please send me your votes before July 29th 10.00 PM (CET).

You can find the list of submitted haiku above in the menu or by clicking this link There you also find how the judging works. Good luck!

Namaste,

Chèvrefeuille, your host

Kukai "Time" the judging starts

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I have gathered all the submitted haiku for our kukai "time" in an anonymous list. It is an awesome list of 27 haiku submitted by 10 different poets.

Today starts the judging of the haiku of this kukai "time". The judging closes on March 14th 10.00 PM (CET). Please email your votes to our email-address:

carpediemhaikukai@gmail.com

Please write "judging kukai time" in the subject line

You can find the list of submitted haiku above in the menu or by clicking HERE

I am looking forward to your votes ...

In April 2016 I will create a new kukai ...

Namaste,

Chèvrefeuille, your host.

Carpe Diem Extra 2016 January 9th Judging our WINTER kukai starts NOW

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I have finally found the time to gather all of your wonderful submissions for our "WINTER"- kukai. It was again a joy to read all of your entries and to make the anonymous list.

This kukai counts 34 haiku themed "winter" composed by 14 different haiku poets/esses. There are even a few new names and I am happy about that. It's good to see and know that Carpe Diem Haiku Kai has become really the place to be if you like to write and share haiku.
It's always a joy to create the posts here and it makes me a humble guy to read, see and hear that you all like the way I am hosting. Thank you.

The anonymous list of submissions to our "WINTER" - kukai can be found in the MENU. The judging starts immediately after publication. You can sent your votes, point, judging following the rules as can be found in the MENU . As I did with our "Peace of Mind" kukai, the judging is also open for those who haven't submitted haiku for the "WINTER" - kukai. Your "judging" has to be emailed before January 25th 10.00 PM (CET).

I am busy with creating a second compilation of the kukai entries for the "Juxtaposition" and "Peace of Mind" kukai and I hope to publish that compilation soon.

Good Luck

Chèvrefeuille, your host.

Carpe Diem Extra 35 - 2015 Judging our fourth kukai "Peace of Mind" starts !!

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

The judging for our fourth kukai "Peace of Mind" is NOW OPEN. You may give 6 points (3 for the best haiku, 2 for the second best haiku and 1 point for the third best haiku). As from now on (as we have discussed earlier) the judging is also open for those who didn't participate in this kukai.

Please send your votes before October 15 th 2015 midnight (CET) to our emailaddress:

carpediemhaikukai@gmail.com

Don't forget to write "judging kukai "peace of mind" in the subject line.

Good Luck!

Chèvrefeuille, your host.

PS. You can find the anonymous list of submitted haiku in the menu above or by clicking HERE.

Carpe Diem Extra 34 -2015 The Results of our Third Kukai "Juxtaposition"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

After gathering all the votes I can now announce our winner of our third kukai "juxtaposition". It was a tough task this time to create a haiku for this kukai, because of the limitation that you had to use "juxtaposition" in it.
In total there were 24 haiku submitted by 9 haiku poets. And I will announce the winner in a little while, because I would ask you all something.

As you maybe remember I have asked your permission to open up the judging for the kukai also to haiku poets who didn't submit haiku. I think that it will not be a problem, but I really love to ask your opinion on it. So please share your thoughts about this with us in the comments field. Thank you.

THE RESULTS

I am proud to announce our winner for this third CDHK Kukai "Juxtaposition" .... and the winner is Ese of  Ese's Voice .... congratulations Ese you have won the opportunity to create your own e-book with a maximum of 30 pages or 50 haiku and you will be our featured haiku poetess in November 2015. Ese won this kukai with the following haiku (9 points):

tepid and bittersweet
in the last sip of coffee
departing summer

© Ese
And our "runner-up" who wins an "own" Tokubetsudesu episode in November 2015 is .... Hamish Gunn of  Haiku Forest with the following haiku (7 points):

at the waterfront
the moon bumps against the shoreline
-a hollow bowl sings

© Hamish Gunn 

Here are the results of the third kukai "juxtaposition":

9 points: haiku 12 (winner)
7 points: haiku 8 (runner-up)
6 points: haiku 9
5 points: haiku 7
4 points: haiku 10 and 11
3 points: haiku 3, 4, 5 and 22
2 points: haiku 16

1 point: haiku 14, 15, 17, 20 and 21
All the other haiku didn't get points

!! CONGRATULATIONS TO ESE AND HAMISH !!

Please remember that our new kukai Peace of Mind is running already and will close at 10:00 PM (CET) on September 25th.

Namaste,

Chèvrefeuille, your host.

You can send your submissions for our fourth kukai "peace of mind" to our email-address:

carpediemhaikukai@gmail.com

Please write "kukai peace of mind" in the subject line. Our fourth kukai will close at 10.00 PM (CET) on September 25th.

Carpe Diem Extra #31 2015 "Juxtaposition" kukai judging

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It took some more time, but I finally have the anonymous list of our third kukai "juxtaposition" ready. I have published it on the kukai page which you can find in the menu above.

This kukai was not an easy one I think. There were lesser submissions than we had in our second and first kukai. It was really a challenge this time ... well it doesn't really matter, because the kukai is just for fun.

Of course there will be a winner and a runner-up this time too and you all know what that means. If you are the winner than you have won the opportunity to create an e-book with a maximum of 50 haiku or 30 pages and you will be the featured haiku poet/ess in November 2015. And our runner-up will the central poet in the first Tokubetsudesu-episode of November 2015. Why November? Well ... September is almost there and in October we are celebrating our third anniversary and that will be a great month. So this time the winner and the runner-up have to wait a little bit longer.

Today I will start our fourth kukai. This time I hope that there will be more contributors to the kukai, because I have chosen the following theme:

PEACE OF MIND

You can submit a maximum of three (new) haiku, only haiku, inspired on "Peace of Mind" and email them to: carpediemhaikukai@gmail.com please write "kukai peace of mind" in the subject line. You can submit your haiku until September 25th at noon (CET), so you have one month to respond.

Than I have another announcement to make. I have created the e-book "Bare Bones School of Renga" by Jane Reichhold and it's now available at our Haiku Kai exclusively. You can find it at the right side of our Kai. (By the way: it's the first version)

Namaste,

Chèvrefeuille, your host.

Carpe Diem Special #153, Rallentanda's fifth "a beautiful peace"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Time flies if you have fun or very busy with all the things you do and have to do. Today I have our last Carpe Diem Special for your inspiration. As you all know Rallentanda was our first time winner of our Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Kukai "Wisteria" and she won the chance to be our featured haiku poetess. Rallentanda is a very gifted and talented haiku poetess and I hope to see a lot of her wonderful haiku in the future. I love to thank Rallentanda for the opportunity to use her haiku for these CD-Specials in June and I hope you all did like them as I did.

Before I share her 5th haiku here I have an announcement to make. As asked by several of you, my dear haijin, I have created a special page about the KUKAI. You can find that page above in the menu. At that page you can find the explanation of the kukai and you can find the anonymous list of haiku of our second CDHK Kukai "summertime".
As this episode of CD Special is published than the judging of our second kukai starts too. You have until July 10th 2015 to judge the entries of our second kukai. You can email your points (including the numbers of the haiku of your judging) to our email address:

carpediemhaikukai@gmail.com

Please write "summertime kukai judging" in the subject line !!!

Ok ... back to our CD Special. As you all know the goal of this CD Special is to write an all new haiku trying to catch the same sense, tone and spirit as the given haiku. The last CD-Special by Rallentanda is the following haiku:

a beautiful peace
I sit quietly with them
feeling their presence

© Rallentanda

This haiku you also can find in her e-book "A Carpet of Purple" which is available for downloading at the left side of our Haiku Kai.

The above image goes with the haiku by Rallentanda and maybe it well your inspiration a little bit. Here is my attempt to write a haiku in the same sense, tone and spirit as the one given by Rall. By the way I have tried the karumi style in this one:

shadows
graves seem to move
spirits dance

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... I hope you did like this episode of our CD Special. I am looking forward to our next winner of our CDHK kukai, because he/she will be our featured haiku poet/ess for next month (if the voting goes well, otherwise the winner will be our featured haiku poet/ess of August 2015)

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until June 28th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, outdoor concerts and a new episode of our CD Time Machine, later on. For now .... have fun!