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This is it ... our last musical prompt of this month in which we celebrated our fifth anniversary. It has been a wonderful month and its almost history. After this weekend we will have only two regular prompts and with those two prompts we will conclude our trip along memory lane. I am looking forward to the upcoming months ... and I hope to celebrate our sixth anniversary next October 2018. Is this only a dream? I hope not ...
Today I have another beautiful composition by our young Portuguese composer BrunuhVille. I hope this music will give you the inspiration you need. Listen to the music and let it be your muse.
I think this is a beautiful composition, it's called Epic Fantasy Music. And it sounds epic if I may say so.
leaves fall only bare branches remain wind has won
Well ... have a nice Sunday and I hope you will be inspired by this music.
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until November 4th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, time travel, later on. For now ... have fun!
Today I have a nice piece of music for your inspiration. It's titled "meaning of life" and the young Portuguese muscian BrunuhVille composed it. Listen to the music and let it take you with it ... The music is your muse and I am looking forward to your responses.
More of his wonderful music you can find at his You Tube Channel BrunuhVille.
This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7:00 PM (CET) and will remain open until October 27th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, Conqueror of the Sky, later on. For now ... have fun!
PS. I have created a new page "Carpe Diem Center of the Universe", you can find that page above in the menu.
Welcome at a new episode of our luster-month October 2017 with a new lay-out ... I hope you like this new lay-out. I have chosen to use a parchment background to get the feeling of that ancient "paper" to write on, because of the ancient haiku. This episode is a music episode and I have chosen a wonderful compostition by a talented young Portugese composer, BrunuhVille Maybe you can remember that I have used his music earlier here back in June 2014 to inspire you.
I discovered his beautiful music several years ago and in a way I am addicted to his music. He is very talented and has created wonderful compositions. Compositions that make you smile, or make you sad ... or ... a lot of feelings. He is really talented and I hope this composition will be your source of inspiration to create haiku, tanka and other Japanese poetry forms.
This composition is titled "The Last of His Name" and I think it's one of his most beautiful pieces I have heard. So listen to the music ... come in touch with the music and with the spirit of BrunuhVille. Enjoy!
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until October 14th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our next episode, October (by Frost), later on.
Welcome at the 1100th episode of Carpe Diem, the regular of course, we have seen a lot of prompts coming by in the years of our existence and the modern composer for today's episode I have introduced earlier here back in 2014. Today I love to share a nice piece of music by the young Portuguese composer BrunuhVille. This composition is titled Dragon Empress and I love this one a lot. BrunuhVille is an independent composer from Portugal who creates a world of magic and fantasy between the fusion of Emotional,Orchestral,Celtic,Folk,Movie,Ethnic and World music.
high in the mountains hidden mysteries dragon's nest
Well this was a very short episode, but I think the music will inspire you to create haiku or tanka. Have fun!
This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until December 23rd at noon (CET). I will publish our next episode, Emilie Mayer's Symphony No. 4 in B minor, later on.
!! During lack of time today I publish this new episode this early !!
Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
This month has gone fast ... and today we have already our last CD Special, a music composition by the young Portugese composer BrunuhVille, today I love to share the next composition:
This composition is titled "Mists of Avalon" and I think this doesn't need further introduction. It's a great composition and I think it will inspire you all to write new haiku.
The Mists
of Avalon is a 1983 novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley, in which she relates the
Arthurian legends from the perspective of the female characters. The book
follows the trajectory of Morgaine (often called Morgan le Fay in other works),
a priestess fighting to save her matriarchal Celtic culture in a country where
patriarchal Christianity threatens to destroy the pagan way of life. The epic
is focused on the lives of Gwenhwyfar, Viviane, Morgause, Igraine and other
women who are often marginalized in Arthurian retellings. King Arthur and the
Knights of the Round Table are supporting rather than main characters. The Mists
of Avalon is in stark contrast to most other retellings of the Arthurian tales,
which consistently cast Morgan le Fay as a distant, one-dimensional evil
sorceress, with little or no explanation given for her antagonism to the Round
Table. In this case Morgaine is presented as a woman with unique gifts and
responsibilities at a time of enormous political and spiritual upheaval who is called
upon to defend her indigenous matriarchal heritage against impossible odds. The
Mists of Avalon stands as a watershed for feminist interpretation of male-centered
myth by articulating women's experiences at times of great change and shifts in
gender-power. The typical battles, quests, and feuds of King Arthur's reign act
as secondary elements to the women's lives. mysterious mists hiding the sacred waters of Avalon - Lotus reaches to the sky
This episode will be open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until June 29th at noon. I will try to post our new episode, Gingko leaves, later on. For now ... have fun!
Time flies ... today we have already the before last CD Special of this month with music by the young Portugese composer BrunuhVille. I hope you all like the music and ... may the music inspire you to write/compose new haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka or haibun.
Well .... I love this piece of music ... but it didn't inspire me to write/compose a new haiku, but maybe ... later it will return ... my inspiration.
Not a long post this time, but I think there is no need to write a very long post for this 4th CD Special it talks for it self.
This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until June 23rd at noon (CET). I will try to post our next episode, hiking, later on. For now ... have fun!
What a joy to prepare another CD Special with the wonderful inspirational music by BrunuhVille, our featured composer this month.
Did you hear that natural sound of the babbling brook at the start of this inspirational piece of music? It's really such a sweet sound and that inspired me to write the next haiku
babbling mountainbrook seduces with her sweet voice - sparkling sunlight
Well .... I hope this will inspire you to write your own haiku inspired on the music by BrunuhVille. This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until June 17th at noon (CET). I will post our new episode, Nights of Summer, later on today.
For now ... have fun! By the way please let me know if you like this music. I have the idea that this music came to early for CDHK ... so I think that I don't gonna make a whole month with music by BrunuhVille.
As you maybe can remember we had last month (May) all prompts based on Legend, Myth, Saga and Folktales and I enjoyed it a lot. I even had a sad feeling that that month was over. Therefore I decided to (at least one) do a composition by BrunuhVille which in a way connects us back to May. I found a nice composition titled "Fable" and I love to share that one here for your inspiration.
I think it's a wonderful piece of inspirational music and I hope you all like it as much as I do. To make this episode a little bit more interesting I have also found a Celtic fable to share here with you all.
LARRY COTTER had a farm on one side of Lough Gur in
the county of Limerick and was thriving in it, for he was an industrious proper
sort of man, who would have lived quietly and soberly to the end of his days,
but for the misfortune that came on him, and you shall hear how that was. He
had as nice a bit of meadow-land, down by the water-side, as ever a man would
wish for; but its growth was spoiled entirely on him, and no one could tell
how.
One year after the other it was all ruined just the same way: the bounds were
well made up, and not a stone of them was disturbed; neither could his
neighbours" cattle have been guilty of the trespass, for they were
spancelled [= fettered]; but however it was done the grass of the meadow was
destroyed, which was a great loss to Larry.
"What in the wide world will I do?" said Larry Cotter to his
neighbour, Tom Welch, who was a very decent sort of man himself: "that bit
of meadow-land, which I am paying the great rent for, is doing nothing at all
to make it for me; and the times are bitter bad, without the help of that to
make them worse."
"It is true for you, Larry," replied Welch : "the times are
bitter bad - no doubt of that; but may be if you were to watch by night, you
might make out all about it: sure there's Mick and Terry, my two boys, will
watch with you; for it is a thousand pities any honest man like you should be
ruined in such a scheming way".
Accordingly, the following night, Larry Cotter, with Welch's two sons, took
their station in a corner of the meadow. It was just at the full of the moon,
which was shining beautifully down on the lake, that was as calm all over as
the sky itself; not a cloud was there to be seen anywhere, nor a sound to be
heard, but the cry of the corn creaks answering one another across the water.
"Boys! boys!" said Larry, "look there I look there! but for your
lives don't make a bit of noise, nor stir a step till I say the word."
They looked, and saw a great fat cow, followed by seven milk-white heifers,
moving on the smooth surface of the lake towards the meadow.
"it is not Tim Dwyer the piper's cow, anyway, that danced all the flesh
off her bones," whispered Mick to his brother.
"Now, boys " said Larry Cotter, when he saw the fine cow and her
seven white heifers fairly in the meadow, "get between them and the lake
if you can, and, no matter who they belong to, we will just: put them
into" the pound."
But the cow must have overheard Larry speaking, for down she went in a great
hurry to the shore of the lake, and into it with her, before all their eyes:
away made the seven heifers after her, but the boys got down to the hank before
them, and work enough they had to drive them up from the lake to Larry Cotter.
Larry drove the seven heifers, and. beautiful beasts they were, to the pound;
but after he had them there for three days, and could hear of no owner, he took
them out, and put them up in a field of his own. There he kept them, and they
were thriving mighty well with him, till one night the gate of the field was
left open, and in the morning the seven heifers were gone. Larry could not get
any account of them after; and, beyond all doubt, it was back into the lake
they went. Wherever they came from, or to whatever world they belonged, Larry
Cotter never had a crop of grass off the meadow through their means. So he took
to drink, fairly out of the grief; and it was the drink that killed him, they
say.
What a nice fable don't you think so too? And I think it's a nice fable to go along with the music of BrunuhVille .... and ofcourse I hope it will inspire you to write haiku.
As I listened to this music ... I saw images of combat in my mind, combat in the Highlands or in the green meadows of Ireland ... warriors fighting for honor to be granted awards for their combat by the king. The fable brought me another problem ... how can I bring both inspiration-sources into one haiku ... so I had to think it over and over again. Finally I think that I have composed a wonderful haiku inspired on both sources.
Here it is:
warriors of the king fighting for glory - in the meadows the lowing of cows
I think this is a nice one ... and maybe it is one of my best ... but that's not up to me to say ...
This Special CD episode will be open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until June 11th at noon (CET). I will try to post our next episode, breeze, later on today. For now have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.
It's my pleasure to introduce to you a young and promising Portugese composer BrunuhVille (July 1989 Coimbra Portugal). BrunuhVille
is an independent composer from Portugal who creates a world of magic and
fantasy between the fusion of Gothic, Orchestral, Celtic, Folk, Movie, Ethnic
and World music.
Maybe you can remember our music-month December 2013 with music composed by Adrian van Ziegler (a young Swiss composer), well BrunuhVille's music is in that same range. In fact I discovered BrunuhVille's music through Adrian von Ziegler ... and ... well I fell in love with his music.
So the Specials of this month are compositions by BrunuhVille and this composition, Falls of Glory, is really awesome. To feel this music you have to play it very loud (in my opinion of course). Well I hope this music will be an inspiration for you to write haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka or haibun.
What do you think of this music? I hope you did like it and that it inspired you to write haiku. Here is my attempt inspired on the music by BrunuhVille.
falls of glory rainbows scatter on rocks - the song of birds
This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until June 5th at noon (CET). Our next episode will be a Ghost-Writer post ... I will publish that later on today. For now ... have fun!
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