Carpe Diem Rebirth of an Old Feature: Time Glass 1 Crystal

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Maybe you can remember that we once had a time-challenging feature titled "Time Glass". The goal was to create haiku or tanka inspired on a theme within 24 hours, so a real time challenge. I love to "restart" that feature. Why? Well as you all know a while ago I changed the responding time of our Kai into seven days, a whole week, but (as you all know) haiku is an impression of a moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water. That short time can help you to create your haiku (or tanka) based on that single moment.

I love to improve your haiku (and tanka) writing skills so I think this "Time Glass" feature can help you with that. But ... we are a haiku loving family from all over the world and we live all in different time zones, so I think it's a good thing to extend the (original) 24 hours of the "Time Glass" feature to 36 hours to respond on the theme.

That theme can be a haiku, a tanka, a waka, an image or just a word  And for the "rebrith" of this feature I have chosen for a haiku and an image to inspire you.

First the image:

Crystal Sunlight (image found on Flickr)

And here is the haiku, one I created myself inspired on the above image:

crystal clear sunlight
reflects all colors in the mirror -
shadow of a dragon

© Chèvrefeuille (2014)

Well ... a nice time challenge I think. Try to create your haiku or tanka inspired on this "rebirth" of the Time Glass feature and share it with us within 36 hours. That means this episode is open for your submissions around 3:00 PM (CET) and it will remain open until February 6th 03:00 AM (CET). Have fun!

Carpe Diem Throw That Pebble #2 frost

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Last week I introduced to you a new feature "Throw That Pebble" and maybe you remember that the goal was to write a response on the regular prompt, today that is frost, within 24 hours. You all were very positive about that new feature, so here is the next episode of Carpe Diem Throw That Pebble.

You have to respond on our prompt for today within 24 hours. I think that's a time range which suits the most (or all) of our Haijin, visitors and travelers, to respond.

Credits: Frost (©) Zima Kalina)

fragile beauty
cranberries covered with sugar
first hoarfrost

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until January 14th 7.00 PM (CET). So you have only 24 hours to respond. I will (try to) publish our new episode, Neko yanagi (pussy willow), later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem Time Glass #35 weeping willow

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's Sunday and that means time for a new episode of our time challenging feature "Time Glass" in which is the goal to write/compose haiku (or tanka) inspired on a given prompt and photo within 24 hours. "Time Glass" challenges you to be in the moment, as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water, the essence of haiku.

This week's prompt is "Weeping Willow"

And this is the photo to become in the inspirational mood to write an all new haiku.

Credits: Weeping Willow (and boat)

The above photo shows a place in Giverny (France) this was the place were Monet once lived and started to paint in his so wellknown Impressionistic style.

Well I hope you are inspired to respond within 24 hours with a haiku (or tanka) inspired on the given prompt and photo. Have fun!

This Time Glass episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open for only 24 hours until Monday July 13th at 7.00 PM (CET). So you have just 24 hours to respond.

Carpe Diem Time Glass #30 summer solstice

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

We have missed it a little while, but now it's here again ... our time challenging feature "Time Glass" in which you have just 24 hours to respond on a given prompt and photo. And today I have a prompt for you in the theme of this month "summertime".

This Time Glass episode is about the "summer solstice" and the following image:

The goal is to write a haiku, tanka, kyoka or haibun (or haiga) inspired on this prompt and photo and to submit that within 24 hours. With this time challenging feature I try to "learn" you all to respond in a short time, just as a haiku is that short sound of a pebble thrown into water, ... not an easy task, but it's not impossible.

Share your inspired haiku within 24 hours with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. Have fun!

This Time Glass episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open for just 24 hours until June 8th at 7.00 PM (CET).

Carpe Diem "Time Glass" #8

Dear Haijin, visitors, travelers,

It's time (well ... 15 minutes to early) again for our time challenging "Time Glass" feature in which the goal is to write a haiku inspired on a photo, painting or something and a prompt within 12 hours. This week I think I have a nice Time Glass episode for you all.

It's almost Halloween or Hallowe'en (/ˌhæləˈwiːn, -oʊˈiːn, ˌhɑːl-/; a contraction of "All Hallows' Evening"), also known as Allhalloween,  All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It initiates the triduum of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed believers. Within Allhallowtide, the traditional focus of All Hallows' Eve revolves around the theme of using "humor and ridicule to confront the power of death."

According to many scholars, All Hallows' Eve is a Christianized feast initially influenced by Celtic harvest festivals, with possible pagan roots, particularly the Gaelic Samhain. Other scholars maintain that it originated independently of Samhain and has solely Christian roots.  

Credits: Halloween Pumpkin

Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related "guising"), attending costume parties, decorating, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted house attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films. In many parts of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows' Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular,  although in other locations, these solemn customs are less pronounced in favor of a more commercialized and secularized celebration. Because many Western Christian denominations encourage, although no longer require, abstinence from meat on All Hallows' Eve, the tradition of eating certain vegetarian foods for this vigil day developed, including the consumption of apples, colcannon, cider, potato pancakes, and soul cakes. (Source: Wikipedia)

Well .... I think you know what the prompt will be ... yes ....

HALLOWEEN

I am looking forward to all your responses. And remember you have only 12 hours to respond on this Time Glass feature.

This Time Glass episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until Tuesday October 28th 7.00 AM (CET). Have fun!

Carpe Diem "Time Glass", a time-challenging new feature

Credits: logo picture

Dear haijin, visitors and travelers,

Maybe you can remember our CD "Vision Quest" last month, in which I challenged you to write a new haiku inspired on a given haiku within 24 hours. Well ... I did like that your responses were great and many. So I have created this new feature CD "Time Glass" to challenge you a bit more than I did in our "Vision Quest".
As you all know one of the classic rules of haiku is that the haiku describes a moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water. In other words, haiku is just an image created in less than a minute, within an eye-blink so to say.
In this new feature I challenge you to write a haiku inspired on a given prompt and picture (an image, photo, painting or something) and post it within just 12 hours. With this new feature I hope to "learn" you all to write a haiku inspired on that short moment. This new feature is really a time-challenge, because the submission-time is just 12 hours.

I will give you an example of what I mean:

First the photo:

Credits: Lonely Rose

And than the prompt:

LOVE

This can inspire you to write a haiku. Look at the photo, let it "come to life" in front of your eyes. What has happened here? When was it? And so on ...

The prompt in this example is "love", so maybe this photo and prompt are bound together, because of a broken love, or just 'stupid' loss of the corsage ....
Let me give it a try and share my "Time Glass" haiku with you all:

running away
she left him in front of the altar -
broken love

© Chèvrefeuille

Or maybe it's more about the loss of the rose? Than maybe this could be the haiku:

after the party
running towards home
she lost her rose

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... I think you all understand the goal of this new feature. Write/compose a new haiku inspired on the given photo and prompt and post it within 12 hours, catch the moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown in water, and share it with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.

Here is our first Time Glass challenge:

Here is the photo:

Credits: Contrails or Chemtrails

And here is the prompt:

AUTUMN LEAVES

Well ... I think this is a nice first Time Glass challenge and I am looking forwrad to all of your "Time Glass" haiku inspired on the 'contrails' (or 'chemtrails')-photo and the 'autumn leaves' prompt. And remember ... you have just 12 hours to post your response haiku on this first "Time Glass" feature.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until September 9th 7.00 AM (CET), so you have just 12 hours!! Have fun! Be inspired and share.