Carpe Diem #1248 ending road

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

What a joy to start a new month of CDHK. After our "modern art" month I have another beautiful month for you I think. Maybe you can remember our special feature in which I challenged you to create haiku (or tanka) inspired on an image, or a photo, that special feature was titled "Carpe Diem Imagination". This month, while we are on our way to our fifth anniversary (next October), I love to challenge you to create haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form, inspired on an image I have chosen. Of course I love to read poems inspired on the given image, but I know that several of you don't love the idea to use images from others for their inspiration, and ... well if you have trouble with the use of the images I share than you may use images made by yourself. If you use an image made by yourself than please share a little background on your image if possible.

I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend. I had for sure a great weekend. Well let's take of with our first prompt of this month themed "Imagination Without Limits". Here is the first image which I love to share here. It was found on Tumblr, but I couldn't retrive the actual owner of the rights, so if you are or know the one who took the photo, please let me know.

What do we see? I see water and something that looks like a bridge or something. The bridge is broken and the path is ending ... there is no way of passing through ... or you have to have a boat or have to swim.

wet feet
broken bridge
ends my path

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... I am looking forward to your responses and I hope to read gorgeous haiku ... no need to follow the classical rules, but if you want to ... feel free.

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7:00 PM (CET) and will remain open until September 10th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode later on.
By the way you can find the theme for this month above in the menu, but you will not find a prompt-list, because I decide every day this month which image I am going to use.

Carpe Diem Special #167 Autumn "first snow"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

First I have to apologize, because I hadn't an internet connection yesterday, I couldn't post our new CD Special. Sorry for that.

This month all our CD-Specials are themed "autumn" and today I love to challenge you to write an all new haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form inspired on "first snow". I remember that we have had that prompt several times, but I think that was at the start CDHK, so I think this prompt can be used again.

I love to share a wonderful image here and two haiku composed by myself to inspire you. I hope to read wonderful haiku in response on this CD-Special.

first snow

 And here are the haiku to inspire you a little bit more:

first snow has fallen
prints of bare feet to the fence -
sweeping the path

© Chèvrefeuille

virgin snow
stepping into it like a child
bare footed

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until September 21st at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, Monoceros (Unicorn), later on today. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #61 crystal cobweb

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's Wednesday again and so it's time for a new episode of CD Tokubetsudesu. As you all know this month (September) the Tokubetsudesu episodes are themed "free choice" and that means that you are free to choose which Japanese poetry form you would like to use. The only thing you have to use is the given theme.
This episode the theme is "crystal cobweb" and it refers to autumn. Autumn is a beautiful season and that's not only because of the coloring leaves, but also because of the cobwebs which we can see very often in this season.
I like cobwebs with dew- or rain-drops on it, than they look fabulous ... as the early sunlight shines upon them then that's magical and mysterious. That beautiful fragility is our theme this week and here is one of my older haiga which I shared here at our Haiku Kai.

I hope this "old" haiga inspires you all. I will reproduce the haiku hereafter, because I think it's not so visible to read.

deep silence
the beauty of a cobweb
morning sunrise

© Chèvrefeuille

And here I have a re-done version of this haiku I created not so long ago as I saw the above haiga again.

silence
cobweb's beauty
at sunrise

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... what do you think of this "revision"?

This CD Tokubetsudesu episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until September 18th at noon (CET). Have fun!
I will publish our next episode, Lyra (Lyre/Harp), later on.

Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #59 Variety ... "end of summer"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's Wednesday again and it is time for a new episode of our Tokubetsudesu feature and this week I have a surprise for you all.

For this Tokubetsudesu episode I have chosen to give you the freedom to respond with all kinds of Japanese poetry-forms and the only "rule" you have to follow is the poems must have to do with "end of summer".

Have fun!

This Tokubetsudesu episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until September 4th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, Aquila (Eagle), later on.

PS. There will be no "Modern Times Haiku" episode this Tuesday, because of circumstances.

Carpe Diem Freestyle #2

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Another episode of Carpe Diem's Freestyle. Feel free to share your haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka, sedoka and all other forms of Japanese poetry here. No prompt ... just freedom to share your haiku or other Japanese kind of poetry here. So another way to share your inspiration.

My freestyling verse this time is a Pi-ku, which I once have written:

The Thinker
alone
no more thoughts

A Pi-ku is in a way somewhat artificial haiku and it follows the number 'PI' which is 3,14. The syllables count for a Pi-ku is:

first line: three syllables
second line: one syllable
third line: four syllables

I learned about this poetry-form last year February and I thought "this is a challenge".

This Carpe Diem's Freestule episode will be open 'till July 20th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our next 'freestyle' episode later on that day.

Have fun, share your freestyling with us. Freestyle can be all other forms of Japanese poetry (including haiku of course).