Carpe Diem Haiku Kai #1366: Loneliness

 Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's a joy to create a new post for our wonderful haiku kai, it has to be to long ... As I told you in our post yesterday I have had a very busy time, not only professional,  but in private too. As I look back into 2022 ... for us, my family and myself, we hope to forget 2022 very fast. Not everything was sad or bad, but ... not a very good year. Except one thing ... my wife and I became grandparents again, our youngest daughter gave birth to her third child, a boy.

Okay ... back to today. 2023 started with an awesome "bang" ... Fireworks ofcourse (smiling), but we have something to look at in our close future ... I can't wait ... our youngest son hopes to become a father this week ... as everything goes well, he and his girlfriend will be parents next weekend (January 7th). Yes we will become grandparents again.

mysterious clouds
curling up around a tree
a lonely soul

© Chèvrefeuille, your host

Back to our post today. As you see at the top of this post ... that's one of my artworks and I challenge you to create a haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form inspired on that Artwork. That Artwork is titled "Loneliness", at least that's the title I have given it for our haiku kai. 

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until January 6th at 10:00 pm (cet). Have fun! You can add your submission to the linking widget hidden in our logo below.

Happy New Year, a whole new year ahead of us #1365 A New Start

 

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It has been to long that I tried to continue our wonderful haiku Kai. There we a lot of circumstances, not all are solved at the moment, but ... I hope to restart our haiku Kai. I recently started with a new contract, same job, but more part-time. My work took to much from me and I almost became mentally ill of it, so I had to make a choice.

As you can see above ... I started with a new hobby ... creating AI Art. The above creation is inspired on an awesome surreal piece of art I recently discovered. 

A new year up front
Just memories fading away
With the sound of fireworks

© Chèvrefeuille, your host 

This is another one of my AI Art creations, inspired on the same awesome Surreal artwork I mentioned earlier in this post. This month surrealism will be our leading theme and I hope to bring our haiku Kai to life again. So today, January 1st 2023, is our new start.

The "task" for today? Use the 2nd piece of Art as your source of inspiration for your haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until January 5th 10:00 pm (CET). Have fun! You can add your submission to the linking widget hidden in our logo below.