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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
It's my pleasure and with pride that I welcome you at the first Carpe Diem Special of December. This month's featured haiku-poetess (and winner of our "peace of mind" - kukai) Georgia (a.k.a. Bastet) of Bastet and Sekhmets Library
Georgia won our "peace of mind" kukai with the following haiku:
rain drips
off the old bamboo wind-chimes
serenity
© Georgia
A real winner I think, and you all thought so too, because you were the judges yourself. For this first CD-Special I have chosen to share a Troiku composed by Georgia with you all. As you maybe know I have invented the "troiku" a creative way of writing haiku. More about Troiku you can find in de menu above.off the old bamboo wind-chimes
serenity
© Georgia
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autumn reflections
as I cross the sun warmed bridge
geese fly south
geese fly south
autumn
reflections
old man contemplates winter
under the hot sun
old man contemplates winter
under the hot sun
as I cross
the sun warmed bridge
ducks laugh downstream
– diving for trout
ducks laugh downstream
– diving for trout
geese fly
south
the noisy swallows have gone
but the blackbird sings
© Georgia
And the challenge, as you all know, for the CD-specials is to write an all new haiku, tanka or in this specific episode, a troiku, inspired on the given one trying to touch the same sense, tone and spirit. I am looking forward to all of your responses.
This CD-Special is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until December 7th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our next episode, men of this world; picking up rice seedlings; backpack and sword, later on.
the noisy swallows have gone
but the blackbird sings
© Georgia
And the challenge, as you all know, for the CD-specials is to write an all new haiku, tanka or in this specific episode, a troiku, inspired on the given one trying to touch the same sense, tone and spirit. I am looking forward to all of your responses.
This CD-Special is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until December 7th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our next episode, men of this world; picking up rice seedlings; backpack and sword, later on.
Can't hope to emulate Georgia's beautiful work. Yet I loved trying to write a troika in the same vein
ReplyDeleteThanks for this special. I like the troiku and Geogia's prompt has been inspirational.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this lovely introduction to my work Chèvrefeuille and also thank you very much for choosing a troiku to introduce my work, it is a beautiful form which I enjoy using very much. Bastet (Georgia)
ReplyDeleteThanks Georgia, your troiku flows in a way that is hard to do - very hard!
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ReplyDeleteVery moving and inspirational troiku....I feel there with your characters....
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ReplyDeleteglad to try, a powerful poetry form.
ReplyDeleteGreat troiku Georgia ! Congratulations on your win !
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