Showing posts with label prose and poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prose and poetry. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Carpe Diem #1710 Beach Party


Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode in our wonderful Kai. I write this episode after a very hot summer day. Today we had tropical temperatures here in The Netherlands, it was almost 40 degrees Celsius, very hot for us dutch people. We survived this hot summer day without a lot of trouble. Yes we had to drank a lot of water and we had to slow down our hard working. Laid back ... was the only thing we could think of today. This high temperatures will be our companion for the next three or four days. Yes we have a heatwave. Tomorrow it will be the hottest day ever here in The Netherlands (as far as I know) 40 degrees and higher ... it will be a tough day ...


Beach Party

This has in a way to do with our theme for today. Today I have chosen "Beach Party" as our prompt and there were and will be a lot of beach parties the upcoming days. Your task today is to create a haibun (or tan-bun (tanka instead of haiku) with a maximum of 250 words. Maybe you have been at a beach party or maybe you will attend a beach party ...

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until July 31st at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode later on. For now ... have a great beach party!


Friday, June 14, 2019

Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #89 Extreme Haibun ... rain


!! Open for your submissions next Sunday June 16th at 7:00 PM (CEST) !!

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new weekend meditation here at our wonderful Haiku Kai. The place to be if you like to create and share Japanese poetry. This weekend I have chosen to challenge you with an extreme haibun.

An extreme haibun is, as you maybe remember, a haibun is prose and poetry together, a kind of symbiosis so to say. I will give you a theme and than I challenge you to create an extreme haibunwith a maximum of 100 words including the poems.

For this extreme haibun I have chosen the theme "RAIN". Create a haibun themed rain and share it with us all here at our Haiku Kai.


Rain

Enjoy your weekend. This weekend meditation is open for your submissions next Sunday June 16th at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until June 23rd at noon (CEST).