Christmas Stockings now available

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's my pleasure to give you our new exclusive CDHK E-book "Christmas Stockings", especially created as a gift for you for Christmas. I hope you will enjoy the read and that you will read it not only now, but also after Christmas.

You can find this special CDHK Christmas-gift at issuu.com through the following app:

Chèvrefeuille's Gift to You to Celebrate our First Luster of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai #3 Haiku Puzzler

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

In this week's "Chevrefeuille's Gift To You To Celebrate Our First Luster Of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai" I have "invented" a new special feature. I have called it "Haiku Puzzler". The goal is to re-create the scrambled haiku of three haiku poets, but to make it somewhat more difficult, I have used four scrambled haiku.

Below you find an image in which you can find all the lines of these three haiku. To find the three haiku you get three hints:

1. This haiku poet brought haiku into the 20th century by mentioning a modern invention.

2. This haiku is renown all over the globe.

3. At the end of the life of a haiku poet the custom was to write a Jisei (death-poem). This is the jisei of a famous female poet.

To make the "haiku puzzler" complete you have to submit the three found haiku including the name of the haiku poet.

Have fun!

Here is our first "Haiku Puzzler":

click on the image to enlarge

I am looking forward to your responses. You can start immediately. I will give the solution through one of our regular posts next week. You will find in that regular post a link towards the solution.

This  first episode of "Haiku Puzzler" is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until Wednesday May 17th 10.00 PM (CET). Have fun!

Chèvrefeuille's Gift to You to Celebrate Our First Luster Of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai #2 "Use That Quote"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

A few weeks ago I started this special feature to celebrate our upcoming first luster. In this special feature I give you a challenge built from the special features which we have had here at our Haiku Kai.

This time I have chosen to create a "special" episode of our "Carpe Diem Use That Quote" feature in which the goal is to create haiku, tanka or another Japanese poetry form inspired on a quote.
For this special festive feature I have chosen a quote by (my master) Matsuo Basho, one of the "big-five" haiku poets of all times.

Basho tree (banana plant)

Here is the quote for your inspiration:

“There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon”. Matsuo Basho

And here is my response on this quote:

hidden in the mist
fields of thousand tulips
waiting for the sun

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until May 6th 10.00 PM (CET). Have fun!

Chèvrefeuille's Gift #1 full circle "new life"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I had some spare time and so I decided to start our 5th anniversary, our first luster, already this weekend. I have created a new special feature with the "very" long title "Chèvrefeuille's Gift to You to Celebrate our First Luster of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai". So this is a gift to all of you. It's my way to thank you all for participating in Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. Without you all, my dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, I couldn't make this website such a success as it has become.
Five years ago I started with Carpe Diem Haiku and as I started it I couldn't have dreamed that it would be here after almost five years. We have accomplished that together and I am grateful for that.

In this new special feature I will treat you with episodes of our Special Features. So this time I have chosen to bring a new episode of our Full Circle feature in which the goal is to use twelve (12) words to create four (4) haiku. These haiku you have to create following the numbers 1 to 12, for example ... for your first haiku you have to use word 1 to 3 in the given order.

1. snow
2. blossom
3. beauty
4. sunflower
5. beach
6. waves
7. clouds
8. horse
9. meadow
10. poplar
11. leaves
12. rain

With these 12 words in this given order you have to create four (4) haiku. Let me give you an example of a haiku in which I use the first three words:

the last snow
covers up young blossoms
fragile beauty

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... this was my gift to you this time. I hope you will enjoy the gift and the challenge to create four haiku using the given words in their respective order.

You can submit your response right now and until next Saturday April 22nd at noon (CET). Have fun!