Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
First I have to apologize for not publishing a weekend meditation, I really hadn't time. I had a very busy weekend at work so I couldn't create a weekend meditation. Sorry for that.
This month it's all about "Never Change A Winning Team", but today I love to challenge you with a kind of "let the winning team go", why? Well ... maybe you know that we have had here at CDHK once a feature about "freestyling" haiku. In that feature I challenged you to create a so called "free-style haiku", a haiku that doesn't follow the classical rules and that has as less as words as is possible. Let me give you an example:
kissing
tongues melt together
as one
© Chèvrefeuille
No classical rules, a minimum of words, but still a wonderful haiku. This is what I call a "free style haiku". For this episode I will give you a few haiku by Jane Reichhold and your challenge is to "re-create" these given haiku into a "free style haiku".
Here are the haiku from Jane's online version of "A Dictionary of Haiku". I have chosen one from each season:
(spring)
light carried in my arms
apple blossoms from a neighbor
on my doorstep
(summer)
devouring apricots
the fine hairs of her mustache
moist and juicy
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| Apricots |
broken by the storm
the asters' fragrance rises
out of damp earth
(winter)
rusty red the bracken
its shape lost as the cold
takes the bird's wing
© Jane Reichhold
Four beautiful haiku I think and you have to "re-create" them as a "free style haiku". A nice challenge I think.
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until November 24th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode later on. For now ... happy freestyling!
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