Carpe Diem #1110 Winter Breath by Adrian von Ziegler

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

We are counting down to the end of 2016. These are the last few episodes of a wonderful year in which we have had happy times, but also sad times, but above all we had the opportunity to create wonderful poetry from the land of the rising sun.

Today I have a nice piece of music created by Adrian von Ziegler, a young composer. Maybe you remember that we have had a month full of his music here at CDHK, so maybe this piece of music you have heard, maybe not. I had planned a piece of music titled "Mists of Avalon", but it turned out that that piece of music was created by BrunuhVille and not by Adrian von Ziegler, so I have chosen another wonderful composition by Adrian von Ziegler titled "Winter Breath".

A beautiful composition that fits the time of the year in a great way, if you live on the Northern Hemisphere.

I hope this piece of music will inspire you to create wonderful haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry forms (like e.g. Sedoka or Choka)

Ah! that silence
the first day of a new year
the wind of last year
plays with bare branches
nothing has changed

© Chèvrefeuille

This tanka I took from my personal weblog and was submitted for our recent Winter Retreat.

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until January 2nd at noon (CET). I will try to publish our next episode, Oniria by Bruno Sanfilippo, later on.

Carpe Diem #587, Sacred Earth (December 2013) reprise

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

We are past halfway of our anniversary month and we have arrived now by our next stop in our memory lane, Sacred Earth, which I published in December 2013. It was a inspirational music prompt with the music of Adrian von Ziegler. I have met him and he is a great musician and composer. His music is divers and beautiful.
I will share this musical piece, Sacred Earth, here again with you all.

It's a wonderful piece of music I think and it inspired me to write the following haiku:

Mother Earth blossoms
while I dream of unknown paths -
the scent of roses

© Chèvrefeuille

This was the haiku which I wrote in December 2013 and I haven't written (yet) a new one, because of lack of time. Maybe I will be inspired later on.

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until October 23rd at noon (CET). I will publish our next post, the Ghost Writer post by Garry Gay, later on.

Carpe Diem #362, A Celtic Tale

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Here it is than ... our last episode of this Carpe Diem Month of 2013 and the last video by Adrian von Ziegler. I have enjoyed making this month for you and I am grateful for your paricipation this month. I am aware that this month wasn't easy, but I think it was a wonderful month with great music.
Next year 2014 we will have for sure two months with inspirational music and I hope you all will like that music too. In our first musical month, June, I will introduce you all to the magnificent music of BrunuhVille, a young Portugese musician and in our second month of inspirational music (november or december 2014) I hope to share music written by Jakob or Oliver Shanti. I am busy with getting permission to use their music so I can't say if I will use it ... well ... I hope to surprise you as I know more ...

This composition you know already I think, because I used it in our promptlist introduction. It's a nice piece of music to conclude this wonderful Carpe Diem month of Inspirational Music with.

finally the end
of a Celtic tale of music -
howling of wolves

howling of wolves
as we say goodbye to the old year -
a new day rises

I wish you all a great New Year's Eve and a wonderful 2014 ....

This episode will stay on until January 1st 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our first episode of January, Aleph, later on today. !! Celtic Tale is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) !!  Have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.

Carpe Diem #361, Dance with the trees

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

As the end of 2013 is closing into us my thoughts went already to next Spring. Next Spring I will become a granddad for the 7th time, our youngest daughter (21 yrs) will give birth to her first born ... so 2014 will be a great year for my wife and I. I am looking forward to that new born child, because it's a wonder that this child will be born. Our daughter and her boyfriend had a lot of problems with getting pregnant ... so it's really a joy that they will become mom and dad.
Spring is the season of new life and the song I love to share with you all here is about ''trees'', I can see the young green leaves sprouting at the bare branches and than the wind blows and let them dance. Awesome.





This video is made by Rubia Lima ... it's a one-picture-video but a beauty I think. ''Dance with the trees" could be easily a tune for Spring as for Autumn ... but it's a gorgeous composition.

rustling leaves
the spring breeze caresses the trees -
cherry buds sprout

cherry buds sprout
as the spring breeze is tickling
their fragility

their fragility
cherry blossoms dance in the wind
Ah! that sadness

Ah! that sadness
as the autumn storm is dancing
with the trees

Not a strong series, but I liked composing it and I hope it will inspire you all to write new haiku. Have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at our Haiku kai. By the way I have published our new prompt-list for January 2014 HERE.
This episode will stay on until December 31th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our last episode of 2013, A Celtic Tale, later on around 7.00 PM (CET). "Dance with the trees" is open for your submissions tonight around 7.00 PM (CET).

Carpe Diem #360, Circle of Life

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

What a joy to make another new episode of Carpe Diem with the wonderful music of Adrian von Ziegler. His music is stunning and I think I have promoted him in a nice way. Our following month of Inspirational Music will be in June 2014 and I have already found a wonderful young musician to provide us with his music. He also has granted me permission already to use his music. That month will be wonderful too I think, but for now ... back to this episode. Today Ihave chosen the composition ´circle of life´. At first I thought at the same song as the one in ´The Lion King´, but that´s a very different kind of music. Here is as Adrian von Ziegler sees the ´circle of life´. Enjoy the music and let it inspire you to write haiku.

This video is provided by EpicMusicVn and it´s really a joy to watch it don´t you think so too?

It inspired me to write the following haiku:

swaying on the wind
on the shoulder of the spring wind
nature's alive

nature's alive
spring has come without a sound -
cherry blossoms bloom

cherry blossoms bloom
finally winter has gone
light is back again

What a nice trio I think. Is it a picture of the circle of life? I think so ...

This episode will stay on until December 30th 11.59 AM (CET) and will be open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET). Have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. Our new episode, Dance with the trees, will be published later on today.

Carpe Diem #359, Wild Flower

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas ... I had a beautiful family-Christmas. All my children and grandchildren were present and enjoyed a Christmas-brunch. It was really a nice day.

Our Family-Christmas-brunch

Well ... I am a very rich man ... as you can see ... we are with 13th people and still growing. Our youngest daughter will be giving birth to her first child next March ... so we have already one big day to come ... the day when our 7th grandchild will be born.

OK ... back to our episode of today. Today I have a nice composition for your inspiration and I am looking forward to all of your wonderful haiku, senryu, tanka or kyoka. Lean back, relax and listen to the music of Adrian von Ziegler.

wild flowers
plucked by my granddaughter
on grandma's grave

on grandma's grave
a whitered bouquet of wild flowers
once plucked by her

once plucked by her
now I stand here at her grave -
grandpa's pearl died

A little bit sad trio of haiku I think, but it's how I feel as I listened to this music. By the way these haiku aren't actually about my own experience, but are written for a close friend of mine.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will be staying open until December 28th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our next episode, our last Special haiku by Hando (our featured haiku-poet), later on today. Have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.

Carpe Diem #358, Cliffs of Moher

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's Christmas and I hope that you all have had a wonderful time. I had a great day we had a brunch with all our children and grandchildren ... it was really awesome and it felt great. We listened to music, had presents and sung Christmas carols ... really it was a great day.

Our music video for today is another nice piece of Celtic music and it's called ''Cliffs of Moher''.

This episode will be staying on until December 27th 11.59 AM (CET) and is open for your submissions on December 25th 7.00 PM (CET). I will post later our next episode, Wild Flower, another nice composition by our featured musician Adrian von Ziegler.

Carpe Diem #357, A Red Sun Sets

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

First I love to wish you all a Merry Christmas ... and I hope that your Christmas is great. As we are closing in to the end of the year I am looking back and as I look back I see a warm haiku-family which has turned out to be an important part of my life. And I thank you all for that ... and I hope to see you in the upcoming year here again on Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.

Our musicvideo for today is titled ''A Red Sun Sets'' ...

Another piece of relaxing world music ... this time with lyrics sung ... it's probably the only piece of music in which sung lyrics are dominating. It does feels like an Tibetan Monastery this music ... very wonderful.

high in the mountains
resonating with the Tibetan spirit
angels are singing

(c) Chèvrefeuille

This episode will be staying on until December 26th 11.59 AM (CET) and will be open for your submissions on December 24th 7.00 PM (CET). I will post our next episode, Cliffs of Moher, later on today.

Carpe Diem #356, Silent Sentinel

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Today (12/23) I will publish three episodes of our Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, because of the holidays. Here in The Netherlands we have two days of Christmas (12/25 & 12/26) and those days I will not be online ... these days are days I share with my loved ones, so today I will try to prepare the episodes for 12/25 & 12/26. This episode however is the one I will publish for Christmas Eve (12/24). By the way I have great news. I have permission to use the music composed by another young musician from Portugal. I will tell you more later as the new year has started.

Our musical prompt for today is Silent Sentinel and this title triggered me, because I can recall the ''sentinels'' which are in ''The Matrix'', but those aren't the theme ofcourse (smiles) it' was just an idea that slipped into my mind as was preparing this episode. Here is the music-video:

Adrian calls this ''relaxing world music'' and in this song you can hear the mid-east, the desert, the high mountains and the images of caravans on their way through the desert searching for an oasis. A wonderful piece of inspirational music I think.

silent oasis
rests in the heat of the day
awaiting visitors

under a starry sky
the sound of rustling palmtrees
and belly dancers

(c) Chèvrefeuille

This episode will stay on until December 25th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our next episode, A Red Sun Sets, later on today. !! Silent Sentinel is open for your submissions December 23th 7.00 PM (CET) !!

Carpe Diem #355, Celestial

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Almost at the end of this year and this wonderful month full of music by Adrian von Ziegler. Until today I have enjoyed the preparing of this episodes and I still do. It's just a shame that the response isn't great the last few days ... maybe everyone is to busy with the preparations for the holidays or the music isn't enough anymore or to much ... well it's up to you all and there are no obligations here at Carpe Diem. Just feel free to participate and share your haiku inspired on the music by Adrian von Ziegler.
Today I love to share the following music-video 'celestial':

A great musical piece ... very emotional and strong. I think this one will inspire you all to write wonderful haiku. I however wasn't inspired enough to write a haiku ... so maybe later I will post my haiku inspired on this music.

Have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with our haiku-family. This episode will stay on until December 24th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our new episode later on today around 7.00 PM (CET). That will be Silent Sentinel.
!! Celestial is open for your submissions later on today around 7.00 PM (CET) !!

Carpe Diem #354, Alvae

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I am in the nightshift so I haven't time enough to write a big post. So instead of a big post, just a small one with the music-video for today. Enjoy the music, lean back and relax. Let the music inspire you to write haiku.




Adrian has made this composition inspired on a fantasy-novel he is writing. The Alvae are a forest tribe in that novel ... so this piece of music is an all over composition by Adrian. It's a wonderful piece of music and I can almost visualize the Alvae ...

forest tribe
keepers of the rainforests all over the world -
Mother Earth smiles

(c) Chèvrefeuille

This episode will stay on until December 22th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our next episode, the fourth Special by Hando (our featured haiku-poet), later on today around 7.00 PM (CET).
!! Alvae is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) !!

Carpe Diem #353, Awake in a Dream

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

We are on our way to Christmas and are following the path of Advent ... here in The Netherlands it's raining and the temperatures are to high for this time of year, but that's very common here the climate is changing and our Dutch winters become softer and our summers warmer. In this time of year we look back and try to look forward ... I have had a wonderful year, of course there were ups and downs, but over all I had a great year. Carpe Diem has become a nice haiku-family and it's a joy to bring you all these every day prompts for your inspiration. Sometimes the prompts are just words, or images, or haiku, but this month it's all musical prompts by Adrian von Ziegler, a young promising Swiss musician.
I had a dream ... to create a community for haiku-poets and with Carpe Diem I succeeded in that and sometimes it feels still like a dream ... as Iread all your comments and lovely reactions on my post ... this haiku-family feels like a warm embrace and I cherish that every day again. Thank you all for your love and kindness. Thank you all for your daily effort to write and share haiku with Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.

Today I love to share a nice little piece of music. Adrian von Ziegler says about this piece of music [..] I wanted to write a piece of music that describes the feeling of being completely immersed in a dream world, a dream that reaches out into reality like a veil of smoke until it covers all. A piece of music that attempts to lull reality itself into a deep slumber. [..]

And if you listen to this music it will easily bring you to sleep, it's fragile and therefore a very strong lullaby. Have fun listening to this music, this lullaby and be inspired to write a haiku, senryu, tank or kyoka about it.





A wonderful music-video created on the music of Adrian by Rubia Lima ... I hope this music will inspire you to write haiku.

It inspired me to write the following haiku:

deep within a dream
awakens a new world of love -
snowdrops bloom

Now it's up to you my dear friends. This episode will be open for your submissions until December 21th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our new episode, Alvae, later on today. !! Awake in a Dream is open for your submissions at 7.00 PM (CET) !!

Carpe Diem #352, Spirits of the Wild

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

What an awesome month of Carpe Diem we have this month ... I am overwhelmed by all of your wonderful and lovely comments on my posts and I am every time again surprised by your haiku inspired on the music of Adrian von Ziegler. I am really ... amazed by that ... it was a fragile choice to take the music of Adrian for our prompts of inspirational music, because it's a not so wellknown musician and I gambled that his music would be for your pleasure and that you would like it as much as I do ...
Well ... you do like his music and so it's my joy to share another nice musical-piece of Adrian here. This time I have chosen ''Spirits of the Wild'' and here it is:

WOW! What a gorgeous music and so in tune with haiku I think. I hope it will inspire you to write nice haiku. It inspired me to write this one:

sounds of nature
cherish my lonely heart without regrets
in deep silence

Not a strong one I think, but that is not up to me to decide. It was a joy to compose it.

This episode of Carpe Diem's inspirational music month will stay on until December 20th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our new episode, Awake in a Dream, later on today. !! Spirits of the Wild is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) !!

Carpe Diem #351, Sacred Earth

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Another new day in our Carpe Diem Haiku Kai paradise of wonderfully composed inspirational music by Adrian von Ziegler. Today I have a music-video which, in my opinion, is almost made for haiku-poets ... it's titled "sacred earth" and as a haiku-poet we are always busy with Mother Nature or Mother Earth ... Haiku-poets are worshippers of nature and we honor Mother Earth as a sacred place to be and to live in.

Here is the music-video:

A wonderful piece of music in which you can hear, feel and see Mother Earth blossom ... a great feeling ...

Here is my attempt to write a haiku inspired on this piece of music:

Mother Earth blossoms
while I dream of unknown paths -
the scent of roses

(c) Chèvrefeuille

This episode will stay on until December 19th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our new episode, Spirits of the Wild, later on today around 7.00 PM (CET). !! Sacred Earth is NOW OPEN for your submissions !!
Share your haiku inspired on the music by Adrian von Ziegler with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.

I am still behind with commenting ... I hope to catch up ... I will for sure visit you all, but maybe I will not write comments. It's a case of lack of time ... but I will try ... Don''t be sad if I haven''t commented on your posts.

Carpe Diem #350, "Part of the Pack"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

What a joy to prepare another new episode of Carpe Diem. Today I love to share THE composition which Adrian von Ziegler especially wrote for his fans. He calls his fans "The Pack" and so this composition became the anthem of his fans. It's a wonderful piece of music and I think you all will like it too.




Well ... did you like it? It's a wonderful anthem and I love listening to it.
For this episode I wasn't inspired enough to write a haiku right now, maybe it will come later today.

This episode will stay on until December 18th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our new episode later on today around 7.00 PM (CET) ... that will be Sacred Earth and it's more in our haiku-stream I think. !! This episode 'part of the pack' is open for your submissions at 7.00 PM (CET) !!

Carpe Diem #349, Kingdom of Bards

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I am a bit early with posting, but there are a few circumstances why I post already. Nothing serious by the way. And I have to confess that I am still hopelessly behind with commenting. Sorry guys I hope to catch up soon.
We are almost halfway in this month of Carpe Diem's Inspirational Music by Adrian von Ziegler and I am so glad and happy that you all liked the music of this young promising musician and I hope you will continue to listen to his wonderful music. He's a modern-times Bard and with that I have bridged the path to our new episode of Carpe Diem.
Today I love to share another beautiful music-video composed by Adrian. This little wonder is titled ''Kingdom of Bards'' and could be easily a follow-up for our last four episodes which started with ''Prophecy'', the short musical story. Sit back, relax and enjoy this wonderful music.

I can almost feel this fragility which was so common in Medieval times ... the sweet sound of the Lute so fragile and tender ... must be an amazing instrument to play. I hope you liked the music and I hope it inspired you to write haiku to share with Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.

fragile lute
fills the summer evening
shining red wine

Well ... did you like this haiku? Another attempt:

the sound of angels
resonating with the wind
a bard's lute

Awesome ... a beauty. I know it's immodest, but I have learned to give myself also a tap on the shoulder (smiles).
This episode will stay on until December 16th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our new episode, the third Special by Hando, later on today around 7.00 PM (CET). !! Kingdom of Bards is open for your submissions at 7.00 PM (CET) !!

Carpe Diem #348 Hail to the King

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Today our last part of the short musical-story started with ''Prophecy''. In this episode ''Hail to the King'', the King will be honored for his good reign and the stability of the land. With this episode I also complete my haiku-suite as I told you earlier this week.
This episode I am preparing the day after my nightshift ... so I will not write a long episode, because I have to go to my bed. I had four easy going nightshifts and this last night I was a bit busier than the first three nights, but well ... that''s the life of an oncology-nurse.

Here is the last part of Adrian's short musical-story titled ''Hail to the King'':

Well ... did you like this last four days? I for sure did and I am so glad that I can end my haiku-suite inspired on the music of these four days. First I will share the other haiku and I will write the last haiku of this suite.

ancient master
plays the Shaman drums tonight -
flames licking the sky

burning hearts
finally the land is free again
and it will bloom

his reign is great
he's the King of the free land -
peace forever

hail to the King
who brought peace to the land
may he live long

With this last haiku I conclude my haiku-suite. I hope you like it and ... well ... now it's up to you, my dear friends, to compose your haiku. Have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with our haiku-family. This episode will stay on until December 15th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our new episode, Kingdom of Bards, later on today around 7.00 PM (CET). !! ''Hail to the King'' is open for your submissions today around 7.00 PM (CET) !!

Carpe Diem #347, For the King

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

This is the third episode of the short music-story which started with the ''Prophecy'' and it's titled ''For the King''. As I wrote in our yesterday's post I will try to write a haiku-suite based on this short music-story. And I hope that I will succeed in that goal.
Our today's music-video is the following:

It's clearly based on Celtic music and it's a nice piece of music to continue this short music-story. In the two other parts, which already have heard, I saw a nice haiku-suite. So here are the two other haiku which I already wrote inspired on the first two parts.

ancient master
plays the Shaman drums tonight -
flames licking the sky

burning hearts

finally the land is free again
and it will bloom

his reign is great
he's the King of the free land -
peace forever

A nice continuation I think. This third haiku, inspired on our music of today, was written to honor the king who has made the land free. In this almost completed haiku-suite you can easily read also the Peace as is cherished around Christmas.

This episode will stay on until December 14th 11.59 AM (CET) and in our next episode we will complete this short music-story with Hail to the King. Later on today I will try to post this new episode. !! ''For the King'' is open for your submissions later on today around 7.00 PM (CET) !! So have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at our Haiku Kai.

Carpe Diem #346, Land of the Free

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Yesterday I shared the first part of a musical short story composed by Adrian von Ziegler and today I love to share part two of this musical short story with you all. With this episode I also share the follow up of the haiku-suite I started in our yesterdays episode ... I can see the question-marks on your faces ... let me explain myself.
I thought to write a haiku-suite inspired on the four pieces of music which started yesterday. I have written yesterday haiku and today I share the haiku which I wrote inspired on this part two of this musical short story. And the next two days more haiku will follow. I hope you understand the meaning ... you know English isn't my maiden language so I sometimes can't find the correct words to explain myself so I hope you understand what a meant above.

Here is our music-video for today:

And here is my follow up haiku for this "haiku-suite" inspired on this wonderful, magical and mysterious Celtic music. First I will share the haiku of our yesterday's episode and that one followed by the new one for today.

ancient master
plays the Shaman drums tonight -
flames licking the sky

burning hearts
finally the land is free again
and it will bloom

This set is just the start of the haiku-suite I will write on with our next episode and finally I will publish the complete haiku-suite in the last part of this musical adventure later on this week. This episode will stay on until December 13th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our next episode in this musical adventure, For the King, later on today around 7.00 PM (CET). !! This episode is open for your submissions at 7.00 PM (CET) !!

Carpe Diem #345, Prophecy

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Today our music-video is the first of a 'series' of four. Adrian composed these as a kind of story and today the music video is titled "Prophecy" ...

Can I write a haiku inspired on it? Let me see ... a first attempt:

ancient drums
resonate through the woods -
witches dancing

Or this one ... more inspired by the title of this piece of music:

the world will end
someday in the faraway future
the cards have spoken

I must confess that I was also thinking of our Tarot-month earlier this year as I wrote this haiku. And this ... I think will be the best attempt (smiles):

ancient master
plays the Shaman drums tonight -
flames licking the sky

Well ... I think I have shared enough for today and I hope this music-composition will inspire you all to write new haiku, senryu, tanka or kyoka. You're welcome to share on this piece of music until December 12th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will share a new episode with the wonderful music of Adrian von Ziegler later on today around 7.00 PM (CET) that will be: Land of the Free, the second part of this short story. !! This episode is open for your submissions today at 7.00 PM (CET) !!