Thursday, March 21, 2019

Carpe Diem #1631 A new chapter ... leaving the Kumano Kodo


Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Maybe you have read the CD Extra already than you know that I am a bit sad that the Kumano Kodo doesn't bring you what I had hoped for so I have decided to leave the Kumano Kodo and go on another trail. That trail ... I already mentioned in our CD Extra of today. I will give you new themes for the rest of this month ... those themes have all to do with Spring, New Life, Nature coming to life again and the light returning back to us.

It's maybe an unexpected turn this month, but it really makes me sad that the responses are in a downfall ... Every day I try to create posts to inspire you ... creating those episodes takes my time. Don't understand me wrong, I like to give my time for you ... but as I see the downfall of your responses than I have difficulties to take time in creating for your inspiration.

It's the second time in our wonderful CDHK history that I decide to change the theme in a running month. Maybe you can remember that I did that earlier in the month about the Quran ... it feels like failure ... to change our theme, but ... well it had to be that way I think.




For today I have chosen to inspire you with a wonderful sonnet by William Shakespeare titled: From you have I been absent in the spring. So you can see this as an episode of that special feature "Distillation" in which I challenged you to create a haiku or tanka inspired on a longer poem. Or create a haiku or tanka from the given poem.




Here is the poem by William Shakespeare:

Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring

From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer’s story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight
Drawn after you, – you pattern of all those.
    Yet seem’d it winter still, and, you away,
    As with your shadow I with these did play.

© William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

A wonderful sonnet by renown Shakespeare. Shakespeare is one of my favorite poets and I hope he can inspire you to create haiku or tanka.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until March 28th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new weekend meditation later on. For now ... have fun!


2 comments:

  1. Kristjaan,
    I am glad you expressed your sadness about the downfall of responses. I am safe thaty consistency of submissions suffered this week. My commitment to haiku and my spiritual healing is one haiku a day. When the challenges multiplied I wasn't abl to keep up, especially because after radiation therapy I returned to work at the same time.your inspirations also became a it lengthier in the past few weeks, there was multiple challenges posted in a day,and as I started to fall bemr, I became more andore overwhelmed yo catch up. Now I feel aeeful, because I feel I felt my spiritual commitment. I don't think this experience was necessary. I enjoy fla oring my creations. I don't want to commit to more than one challenge a day, more than one haiku a day, or to lengthy poems. I just want to enjoy one haiku a day, because that I can keep up, and not fail at it. Maybe that is helpful, maybe others can relate too. Not, that your pists aren't absolutely beautiful, but it is haiku we love, therefore lengthy and many isn't what we like. Maybe that is your answer, and maybe not. Aloha.

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  2. Edited version of my earlier response:

    Kristjaan,
    I am glad you expressed your sadness about the downfall of responses. I am sad my consistency of submissions suffered this week. My commitment to haiku and my spiritual healing is one haiku a day. When the challenges multiplied I wasn't able to keep up, especially because after radiation therapy I returned to work at the same time. Your inspirations also became a bit lengthier in the past few weeks, there was multiple challenges posted in a day, and as I started to fall behind, I became more and more overwhelmed to catch up. Now I feel aweful, because I feel I failed my spiritual commitment. I don't think this experience was necessary. I enjoy flavoring my creations. I don't want to commit to more than one challenge a day, more than one haiku a day, or too lengthy poems. I just want to enjoy one haiku a day, because that I can keep up, and not fail at it. Maybe that is helpful, maybe others can relate too. Not, that your posts aren't absolutely beautiful, but it is haiku we love, therefore 'lengthy' and 'many' isn't what we like. Maybe that is your answer, and maybe not. Aloha.

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