Carpe Diem Ghost Writer #21, Hamish Gunn's Imagination GW-post

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

As you all know I think we have every Wednesday a so called Ghost Writer post and today I have a nice GW-post for you all. It's a bit different we the other GW-posts, but it is also an example of an other way to be Ghost Writer for CDHK.

Managua Hamish Gunn of Cabin Fever has emailed me a few wonderful photos for inspiration. So this GW-post is similar with our Imagination features in which I share a photo, picture, painting or something else for your inspiration.

Here is Managua Hamish Gunn's photo which I have chosen:

© Managua Hamish Gunn

As I saw this photo the very first time (a few days ago) the first thing which came in mind was the Ancient Celtic Oracle called "Ogham". This photo shows you Luis (in Gaelic) or Rowan. This tree is a very sacred tree in the Ogham tradition of the Druids and it stands for protection against the evil eye. In the Celtic culture the people used branches of Rowan (including leaves and fruits) above their door to shield their homes against evil. Rowan is also the Ancient Celtic name for December.

So this GW-post asks you to be inspired by this photo. Have fun!

Here is my attempt:

natural shield
to keep the Devil outside -
Rowan's branch

© Chèvrefeuille

Now it is up to you to write haiku inspired on the photo. This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will stay open until August 15th at noon. I will try to post our next episode, paradise, later on today.

Carpe Diem Imagination #10

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I love to publish a new episode of our special feature ''Carpe Diem's Imagination''. As you can see I have created a new logo for this feature and I think it's a great logo, if I may say so.

The goal of this special feature is to write haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka or haibun inspired on a given photo. For this episode I have a photo taken in my own frontyard. Our Clematis is in full bloom and she has wonderful deep purple velvet-like flowers. It's really a joy to see how the Clematis blooms this summer. Last summer, as we just had planted it, she had a few flowers, but this year ... her flowers like a waterfall.

Clematis in my frontyard

Isn't she beautiful? Must be a great source of inspiration I think. Here another photo, a close-up of one of the flowers.

Clematis (close-up)

beautiful maiden
dressed in deep purple velvet -
the sound of water

© Chèvrefeuille

I hope this episode will inspire you to write all new haiku ... have fun! This CD Imagination epiode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until Friday July 11th at noon (CET).

Carpe Diem Imagination #5, Wisteria

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I love to share a new Carpe Diem Imagination episode with you all. Today I have a wonderful photo of the Wisteria, a beautiful climbing plant with deep blueish and purpleish flowers.

Wisteria (also spelled Wistaria or Wysteria) is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, that includes ten species of woody climbing vines native to the Eastern United States and to China, Korea, and Japan. Some species are popular ornamental plants, especially in China and Japan. An aquatic flowering plant with the common name wisteria or 'water wisteria' is in fact Hygrophila difformis, in the family Acanthaceae.

Wisteria

Issa, one the four greatest haiku masters, wrote the next haiku on Wisteria:

haru no hi no iri-tokoro nari fuji no hana

the setting place
for the spring sun...
wisteria blossoms

Have fun, be inspired. Let the photo be your inspiration source for your haiku for Carpe Diem Imagination. This episode of CP's Imagination will stay on 'til April 11th 11.59 AM (CET).

Carpe Diem Imagination #4, Weeping Cherry

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

As we are in the beginning of Spring I love to challenge you with a new Carpe Diem Imagination episode. The goal of this Imagination is to write and compose haiku inspired on a given picture, painting or photo. For this episode of Imagination I have chosen a wonderful photo of the Weeping Cherry.

Weeping Cherry

It's a wonderful tree and I think it can inspire you all to write nice haiku. You also may compose a Tanka or Kyoka or Senryu. Tanka and Kyoka are another Japanese poetry form that has five lines with a syllables count 5-7-5-7-7. Tanka and Haiku are similar to eachother in their meaning as are Kyoka and Senryu. Kyoka and Senryu are mostly more humorful and are about human affairs.

Well .... have fun, be inspired and share your haiku, senryu, tanka or kyoka with Carpe Diem.

This Carpe Diem Imagination will stay on 'till March 31th 11.59 AM (CET).

Carpe Diem's Imagination, a new feature.

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I love to introduce today our new Carpe Diem feature. I have called it Carpe Diem's Imagination. In this new feature I will share on an irregular base a photo, picture or painting meant for your inspiration and imagination.
The goal of this new feature is 'to paint the picture with words', so the picture can be your inspiration source to write a haiku about. 

I will share here today the first episode of Carpe Diem's Imagination.

Be inspired and share your imagination with your haiku here. Give it a try and maybe this will be a nice feature to do now and than.

For this Carpe Diem's Imagination episode you can share your haiku 'till January 25th 11.59 AM (CET).