!! Open for your submissions next Sunday September 8th at 7:00 PM (CEST) !!
Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
Welcome at our new (belated) weekend meditation. This weekend I love to challenge you to "photoshop" haiku. Let me give you all the "short" explanation of "photo-shopping haiku":
Photo-shopping sounds awfull but, I think it's possible to "photo-shop" haiku and tanka too. Just a little change can make the difference between a good haiku (or tanka) and an excellent haiku (or tanka).
I love to make photos, but I am not a photographer that likes color. I am more of the black and white and sepia photos, because in my opinion the photos are more beautiful ... more vintage.
Maybe it's because of my age (56 yrs) or of my melancholic mind I don't know, but I do know that we can re-make "photo-shop" a haiku (or tanka) into a vintage one just by retouching of a small part. So this new feature, that I first titled "vintage haiku", I have "re-titled" into "photo-shopping haiku".
Let me give you an example:
autumn has come
visiting my ear on
a pillow of wind
© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)
As I start "photo-shopping" this haiku by my master, Matsuo Basho, than I think 'I can bring more softness, tranquility, into it by changing a small part of this haiku into:
whispering into my ear
on a pillow of wind
In this example I only let the first line un-touched:
autumn has come
whispering into my ear
on a pillow of wind
© Chèvrefeuille
I think this "small" re-touch makes this haiku more soft, lovely and tranquil.
I think, no I know that you all understand the goal of this "photo-shopping haiku", try to create a "better" version of a given haiku. Maybe you only change a few words or maybe you think this haiku becomes "better" as "re-make" it into a tanka. You are free in the choices you make.
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| Autumn Silence |
This weekend I love to challenge you to "photo-shop" an autumn haiku created by Jane Reichhold and taken from her online version of "A Dictionary of Haiku".
cricket silence
between scraping sounds
autumn begins
© Jane Reichhold (Source: A Dictionary of Haiku; Section Autumn, subsection Celestial)
A wonderful haiku by our beloved Jane, she is still missed. "Photo-shop" her haiku to honor her.
This weekend meditation is open for your submissions next Sunday September 8th at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until September 15th at noon (CEST). Have a great weekend full of inspiration.
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