Carpe Diem #1421 desert (extreme haibun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at the last episode of our story telling month. Today we end a wonderful month full of marvelous stories, or better said ... marvelous haibun. The last prompt for this month it desert and I love to challenge you to create an extreme haibun ... meaning that your haibun may have a maximum of 55 words (including the haiku).

To help you to awaken your muse I have a few images of the desert.

Caravan in the desert

African desert

Love in the desert

I remember it well. It was my first visit to the desert. I was part of a caravan and I met a gorgeous woman. She looked like a goddess. In the middle of the desert we fell in love.

desert heat
arouses the senses
sand on buttocks

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... this was our Kamishibai month. Next month we will go on a journey straight through the Andean Mountains.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until May 6th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, the first of May 2018, later on.

Carpe Diem #1420 Tears (one-bun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at the penultimate (regular) prompt for this month. This month it was all about story telling or as they call it in Japanese "kamishibai". We explored several kinds of haibun and I think you all have enjoyed this month a lot. I enjoyed making it and I am already looking forward to our new month.
In May I love to go on another journey. This time we will visit South America and we will travel by train through the Andean Mountains. It will be an adventure and we will visit the highest station on this railway ... Galera, on the Ferrocarril Centro Andino at 4781m above sea level. During this journey we will dive into the ancient history of this wonderful continent.

Mayan Art work

But ... before we go on a new journey we have to pass two regular episodes and one weekend-meditation episode. Today I ask you to create a one-bun themed tears. The "one-bun" is invented by Jim Kacian. The one-bun is an ultra-short haibun which has just one line of prose (including the title) and a (one-line) haiku. I will give an example of this one-bun written by Jim himself.

The light

of the most distant stars, which describes for us the size and age of the universe, won't reach us for aeons, leaving us to imagine ...

dark space the red shift of my mind

© Jim Kacian

Today's theme is "tears" and I am looking forward to your responses.

You all will be aware of our feuilleton about Yozakura "Wandering Spirit". I am busy with the new episode of this story, but recently I read it again and I ran into a nice example (extracted from the story) of a "one-bun" ... it even fits our theme for today, tears ...

After a few days 

at the Wisteria flowers lodging house I went into Edo on my way to meet my soon to be haiku master Basho, but before that I visited my mother's garden.

tears fall on this lonely grave Wisteria blossoms

© Yozakura

It's a re-done part of the story. I wasn't aware that I could create a one-bun from another story, but this one is amazing (how immodest).

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until May 3rd at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new weekend-meditation later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1419 Rose Garden (kikobun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Today I have a wonderful theme for you ... rose garden. The rose is in my opinion the Queen of flowers. I love the colors, the smell, how she looks and I even like her thorns sometimes. Her thorns remind me that I have to be careful with her as I cherish her. She is like a woman, or a man, and she (he) needs our care.

Today I have chosen for the theme "rose garden" and I love to ask you to create a kikobun (above in the menu on the page of our April prompt-list, you can find what a kikobun is) in honor and as a tribute to the beauty of roses, the rose garden. And please try to create your haiku in the classical way (above in the menu you will find the page CDHK Lecture 1, there you can find some classical rules).

Rose Garden (Woodland Park)

By the way I couldn't retrieve the photographer of the above photo, so if you know him or you are him, please let me know.

a wild rose
red delicacy in nature -
my sweet love

red roses
all that remains
after the storm
between the walls
and my heart

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until May 2nd at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, tears, later on. For now .... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1418 true love (haibun extreme)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new (short) episode of our wonderful Kai. During circumstances and lack of time I have a short episode for you. Today I challenge you to create an extreme haibun with a maximum of 55 words (including the haiku) themed "true love". To inspire you I have a nice classical song for you.

Enjoyed this classical song? I hope it will help you to awaken your muse.

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until May 1st at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, rose garden, later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1417 apprentice (one-bun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

First I have to apologize for being late with this new episode of our wonderful Haiku Kai. I had a very busy day and couldn't publish earlier. Than this ... mom is still in hospital, but she is becoming healthier every day. So I hope she can (and may) leave the hospital today.

Today's prompt is "apprentice" and I think we all know what an apprentice is. We all once were and still are apprentices I think. As I look at myself I am learning every day new things. As you all know I see Basho as my sensei, so that means I am his apprentice. I love creating haiku and I am striving to become as good as my sensei.

early morning (image found on Pinterest)

Today I love to challenge you to create a "one-bun" (an invention by Jim Kacian) with our prompt for today. More about "one-bun" you can find above in the menu on the page of CDHK April 2018.

My sensei

still takes time for me to teach me and I am grateful for his lessons

listening to his soft toned voice, full of love, a bird's song

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until April 30th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, true love, later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1416 Conquest (haibun free-style)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode of our Haiku Kai. This month we are writing all kinds of haibun. We all are storytellers, not only with our haibun, but also with our haiku, tanka or other form of Japanese poetry. Storytelling is in our blood so to say. Everyone can tell stories and you my dear haijin, visitors and travelers, are awesome story tellers.

I hope you all have had a nice weekend. My weekend wasn't that great, because my mom became hospitalized through her diabetes. Her bloodsugar was really disrupted, but after a few days her bloodsugar seems okay again. Godwilling she will be going home tomorrow.

Today I have a nice challenge for you I think and I hope you will like it. Today's pormpt is conquest and your task (if I can call it a task) is to write a free-style haibun themed conquest. So no rules, just fun to tell your story.

To give you a little bit of extra inspiration I love to share a wonderful piece of music by Vangelis with you. I think you all know this masterpiece. It was written for the movie 1492 about Columbus.

Well ... a wonderful piece of music and I think it will help to awaken your muse.

conquering the world
a small verse from a faraway country
the sun rises

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until April 29th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, apprentice, later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1415 Perfume of Spring (one-bun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode of our wonderful Kai. This month it's all about haibun (prose and poetry). We have already seen a few different kinds of haibun here at CDHK and today I love to challenge you to create a "one-bun" inspired on our prompt "perfume of spring".

More about "one-bun" you can find in our promptlist for April 2018 (above in the menu).

During circumstances I have chosen to only give you the prompt and the task for today.

perfume of spring

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until April 26th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new weekend-meditation later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1414 Nakedness (kikobun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

We are all born naked, but through the Fall of Mankind we became aware of our nudity and started to make clothing to cover our nakedness. Why? It's how we are raised and of course there will be several of you that have been raised in an other way. I had the privilege that my parents were wonderful. They first raised me with religion and the love (and respect) for God, or how you will call it. As I grew up and found my own ways, my own paths, they always were there to help me. They respected my choices and applauded my free reason, my free thought, and that has made me who I am now. I appreciate all humans, female and male, I can say that from the depth of my heart ... I love all and everthing ...

Why this introduction? I don't know, maybe I thought it had to be told, but maybe it was something or someone that guided me I don't know.

Today our theme is Nakedness as you already have understood I think. Imagine ... how would the world look as Eve hadn't taken the apple? Than we hadn't know that we are naked, than we would have no need for clothes or clothing. So ... here it goes your task for today is to create a kikobun inspired on our prompt nakedness.

Here you can find the story of Eve.

I remember that I have done this theme earlier here at CDHK and I once shared a haiga in which you can find "nakedness" in an other way than I described above.

Well ... I think you all love to start writing so I will end this episode. Enjoy this theme. By the way above in the menu you can find our "prompt-list" for this month on that page you also can find an explanation of the kikobun.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until April 25th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, perfume of spring, later on. Have fun!

Carpe Diem #1413 Loneliness (Haibun in the classical way)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I love to wander along the beach, only the sound of waves and seagulls, all alone. I love to sit down in the backyard on my own, only nature and my own thoughts and feelings. I love being alone sometimes. I think I need that ... I have a busy life, my family, my work as an oncology-nurse, being your host and being myself, the haiku poet Chèvrefeuille. Loneliness is something you can choose for, but mostly loneliness is not something that we choose. There are enough humans that are alone, who live their life in loneliness but didn't choose for it. Loneliness ... our theme for today. I think we have had this theme earlier here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai:

Here are a few links to earlier posts:

Carpe Diem #405
Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #17
Carpe Diem #886
Carpe Diem Namaste, The Spiritual Way #6

Loneliness

Loneliness ... what does it mean for you. Do you choose loneliness sometimes, to find new inspiration and new energy? Loneliness ... a strong emotion with a strong task today, because I love to challenge you to create a classical haibun. In other words, the haiku (or tanka) have to be written in the classical way. (More about this classical way of haiku-ing you can find above in Carpe Diem Lecture 1) Your haibun may have a maximum of 300 words.

Here is a (non-classical) haiku from my archives about "loneliness":

in front of the fireplace
an empty bottle and broken wine glasses 
after the quarrel

© Chėvrefeuille

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until April 24th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, nakedness, later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1412 Daisies (extreme haibun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode of our wonderful Kai. This mnth it's all about haibun and this month got the subtitle "go and tell your story". And you really did and (i hope) will do this. You have told your stories ... you are all wonderful storytellers and that makes me proud, but also humble, because I am not that good with haibun.

Today I have a new task for you all. The prompt for today is "daisies" and you are invited to create an extreme haibun or in other words "your haibun may have a maximum of 55 words including the haiku (or in this task ... tanka).

thousand daisies
around the farmer's house -
lowing of a cow

© Chèvrefeuille

A nice haiku I would say extracted from my archives, maybe it will help you a little bit to become inspired.

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until April 23rd at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, loneliness, later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1411 praying (one-bun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend and that it has given you the inspiration you needed. Today I have a short episode for you, because I have to create our post on the Spring  Retreat 2018 also today. So I will give you the theme "praying" and the task ... create a one-bun. I will give you the meaning of "one-bun" here again.

The "one-bun" is invented by Jim Kacian. The one-bun is an ultra-short haibun which has just one line of prose (including the title) and a (one-line) haiku.

Praying

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until April 22nd at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our next episode, daisies, later on. For now .... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1410 Rainbow (short-haibun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode of our Kai. This month I ask you all to create haibun ... "go and tell your story" you all did a wonderful task in the first weeks April. I am proud ... it makes me humble, because haibun isn't really my "cup of tea" and I am for sure not a great haibun poet.

Today I have another wonderful theme to work with ... "rainbow". Maybe you can remember our "rainbow" Theme Week "color your life" back in 2016. We explored the meaning of the colors of the rainbow and maybe, just maybe it can help you to create your short-haibun this time.

I have a wonderful haiku by Kobayashi Issa for you, that haiku you have to use or at least a "revision" of it. Write your short-haibun, with a maximum of 100 words (including the haiku) and share it with us all.

Here is the haiku by Issa:

evening's fall colors -
the rainbow in the valley
fades away

© Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)

A real beauty by one of the greatest haiku poets ever. Issa had a tough life, but his poems aren't affected by it.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until April 19th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new weekend-meditation later on.

Carpe Diem #1409 Broadway (extreme haibun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Today we will make a trip to Broadway. I think you all are familiar with Broadway, the place to be if you like musicals and more.

Broadway theatre, commonly known as Broadway, refers to the theatrical performances presented in the 41 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.

The great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. Historian Martin Shefter argues, "'Broadway musicals,' culminating in the productions of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, became enormously influential forms of American popular culture" and helped make New York City the cultural capital of the nation.

Broadway by Night

I haven't been there, but I hope it will once be one of my visits at the USA. I am not a big fan of musicals, but Broadway sounds like a legend. So I think Broadway can inspire you to create an "extreme haibun", with a maximum of 55 words including the haiku (or tanka).

To inspire you I have a nice piece of music for you taken from the musical "West Side Story" (1957):

Well ... it is up to you now ... create an "extreme haibun" inspired on Broadway. Have fun!

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until April 18th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our nex episode, Rainbow, later on.

Carpe Diem #1408 Gypsy (kikobun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's with pleasure that I offer you a new episode of our wonderful Kai. We are into haibun this month and we have seen already several different forms of haibun this month. Today I love to challenge you to create a kikobun. Let me first share the idea of kikobun (again) with you before I go to the theme of today, gypsy.

It is structured somewhat like a haibun, a passage of prose with at least one short poem (haiku or tanka). It features landscape and nature, and interaction between writer and the landscape. Bashô focused on exactly that, the nature and not on prescribed formulas or conceptions.
The key specification is that a kikôbun involves movement of the writer, in that it is a short travel diary. The haiku should not repeat what is in the prose, and should not attempt to ′globalise’ the prose like a conclusion.

Okay ... onwards we go. Today's theme is "gypsy". And I think you all know about gypsies. In my daily salutation I always use "travelers", and maybe you know that "travelers" are a kind of gypsies. Our haiku friend Hamish Managua Gunn has written a few posts here at CDHK about gypsies and maybe they can help you ... At the above left corner you find a "search" possibility were you can find his posts on gypsies by putting in "gypsy or gypsies" or maybe "Roma".

Gypsy woman (painting)

I am not that familiar with gypsies, but I remember that I used a kind of gypsies in my first novel "Netsach" (2007) so I think I can say I am a little bit familiar with them and of course through the posts of Hamish here at CDHK.

In one of his posts he shares with us the following haiku on gypsies (or Roma-people):

by the campfire
she dances to the violin
only the stars are still

© Hamish Managua Gunn

Maybe you can use his haiku for your inspiration to create a kikobun. Of course you are free to do so. You can also use the following video by Nagy Lehel, titled "Cigány Zene - Gypsy Music" for your inspiration.

Well ... I think you have enough to work with. I am looking forward to your kikobun themed "gypsy".

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until April 17th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, Broadway, later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1407 opportunity (haibun without rules)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode of our wonderful Kai. This month it's all about haibun and today I will give you the "opportunity" to create a haibun without rules. Life is full of opportunities and everyone of us will (I think) agree with me in that. My worldwide career started several years ago. I took the opportunity to publish a first English haiku on the WWW and that haiku became renown all over the globe. I took the opportunity to deepen my knowledge about nursing as I decided to become an oncology nurse. I also took the opportunity to create Carpe Diem Haiku Kai for you and to start with my own publishing company. Opportunities ... one way or the other ... we have to take them.

Today I love to challenge you to create a haibun (without rules) themed "opportunity", maybe you have to use "senryu" instead of "haiku", but that's all up to you. Maybe you will create a haibun in which you use tanka instead of haiku. It's up to you. No rules ...

The Opportunity of a Lifetime

Create your haibun from your heart, look into your life, maybe you find an idea about how to create a haibun on opportunity ... and enjoy your inspiration and creativity.

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until April 16th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, gypsy, later on. For now ... just have fun!

Carpe Diem #1406 Meadow (one-bun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new week full of haibun ... today I haveanother nice theme for you to create a haibun with. Today I love to challenge you again to create a so called "one-bun". The "one-bun" is an invention of Jim Kacian and the goal is to create a haibun that has just one line. That means, the title of your haibun, the story and the haiku are together one line ... that's why this haibun form is called "one-bun". I will give you first an example of a "one-bun" created by myself:

Honeysuckle

shares its sweet perfume as this summer day runs to an end, while I enjoy the coolness and the warmth of her naked body next to mine ...

hot summer day the sweet scent of Honeysuckle and the one I love

© Chèvrefeuille

Meadow

So your task is to create a "one-bun" themed meadow. Enjoy this challenge ...

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until April 15th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, opportunity, later on.

Carpe Diem #1405 New Life ("extreme" haibun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Time flies if you have fun they say and I think that's true. At the start of this month I already talked a bit about "new life" as introduction to our Easter episode. I just realized today that I had another prompt "lined-up" in the same week with the same idea. But well .... it had to be that way I think.

Today I have an "extreme" challenge for you I challenge you to create a haibun extreme and that means you can use a maximum of 55 words including the haiku. Maybe this sounds crazy, but I think it can. I once created such a haibun for another website I was a regular visitor of. I love to share that haibun with you, but it's not about "new life" as is the theme for today, but it's just to give you an idea that it is possible to create such an "extreme" haibun.

A wondrous place. Trees and streets covered with snow. The bright sunlight. Roofs like crystal.
Love is warming our bodies in front of the fireplace. Drinking red wine, eating marshmallows. This is paradise. Our legs entwined. Lost in each others eyes. Together you and I.

making love
in front of the fireplace -
winter feeling

© Chèvrefeuille

This "extreme" haibun I created back in 2012. I loved creating it. It was a real challenge, because I had to use a maximum of 55 words ... as I ask of you this episode.

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until April 12th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new weekend-meditation later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1404 Happiness (short-haibun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Another day has gone and a new day rises full of happiness. I have a very rich life. I have my work as an oncologynurse, I love to read and write, but I also have a wonderful family. I love the beauty of almost every novel, the beauty of poetry and most of all I love the philosophy of life that I live. My life is an adventure full of unconditional love and happiness. Happiness ... is like nature coming alive after the dark winter, nature becomes colorful again. I love all seasons, because every season has meaning ... every seasons has its beauty. In spring I find happiness in nature, in summer I love the warmth of the sun on my naked body, in autumn I love the decay of the beauty of nature, nature looses its green colors and in a firework of colors we enter (again) the beauty of the cold winter. The dark winter has its beauty too ... look at the bare branches, carrying the heavy snow. Nature goes into hibernation to start again full energy in a new spring. What a joy this cicrcle of life ... isn't that what happiness means? Going with the seasons, living the seasons and trying to give words to the feelings every season brings us. That is in my opinion what haiku (and haibun) are celebrating.

Rivers of Happiness (painting by Stephanof Dmitry)

Look at the above painting by Stephanof Dmitry ... it's titled "rivers of happiness" ... what a beauty. This painting overflows us with happiness and this painting can help you to get inspired for our next task: write a haibun in a maximum of 75 words (including the haiku) themed "happiness".

Here is my attempt:

Finally ... winter has gone. I laugh as I see the cherry blossom bloom in the backyard. I dance naked through the garden. Feeling the warmth of the spring sun. Life is wonderful and full of joy ... this is true happiness

simple happiness
cherry blossoms bloom again -
spring is near

© Chèvrefeuille

What a joy to see the cherrytrees bloom again, or any other kind of blossoming tree. This is life, this is happiness ...

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until April 11th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, new life, later on. For now ... have fun, be happy and enjoy ....

Carpe Diem #1403 Mountains (kikôbun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

This month is a real challenge. Every day writing a haibun isn't easy as I can say, because I haven't written a haibun or one-bun myself. Maybe it's not really my "cup of tea", but I hope you all have inspiration enough to write haibun.

Today I have a nice prompt for you Mountains and I remember that I once did an episode about that famous novel by the French René Daumal "Le Mont Analogue". Let me give you a short discription of this novel that was published back in 1952.

Mount Analogue (cover)

Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing is a classic novel by the early 20th century French novelist René Daumal. The novel is both bizarre and allegorical, detailing the discovery and ascent of a mountain, which can only be perceived by realising that one has travelled further in traversing it than one would by travelling in a straight line, and can only be viewed from a particular point when the sunrays hit the earth at a certain angle.

"Its summit must be inaccessible, but its base accessible to human beings as nature made them. It must be unique and it must exist geographically. The door to the invisible must be visible."

Daumal died before the novel was completed, providing an uncanny one-way quality to the journey. Father Sogol – the "Logos" spelled backwards – is the leader of the expedition—the expedition to climb the mysterious mountain that unites Heaven and Earth.

Mount Analogue was first published posthumously in 1952 in French as "Le Mont Analogue".

"Mount Analogue" is a wonderful novel and I have read it several times. It's a nice start-point for this new episode.

René Daumal author of "Mount Analogue"

Today I challenge you to create a kikôbun, I think at least one of our family members will be glad that he has to write a kikobun themed mountain(s). Let me give you an explanation of kikôbun:

What is a kikôbun?

It is structured somewhat like a haibun, a passage of prose with at least one short poem (haiku or tanka). It features landscape and nature, and interaction between writer and the landscape. Bashô focused on exactly that, the nature and not on prescribed formulas or conceptions.
The key specification is that a kikôbun involves movement of the writer, in that it is a short travel diary. The haiku should not repeat what is in the prose, and should not attempt to ′globalise’ the prose like a conclusion.

Well ... enough "talking" time to go and tell your story, share your story with us.

Fitz Roy Mountain Argentina

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until April 10th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, Happiness, later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1402 Daffodils (one-bun)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I hope you have had a wonderful Easter. I am on the nightshift, so I haven't really had a nice Easter, because I had to sleep. I have read nicely crafted haibun in response on our first prompt this month and today I love to challenge you to create a so called "one-bun". Let me give you a short explanation of a "one-bun".

The "one-bun" is invented by Jim Kacian. The one-bun is an ultra-short haibun which has just one line of prose (including the title) and a (one-line) haiku. I will give an example of this one-bun written by Jim himself.

The light

of the most distant stars, which describes for us the size and age of the universe, won't reach us for aeons, leaving us to imagine ...

dark space the red shift of my mind

© Jim Kacian

Daffodils (painting)

The prompt for today is Daffodils. Daffodils are blooming in late winter and at the start of spring they are also commonly used in Easter bouquets and that made the Daffodil somewhat mystical. The Daffodil is asociated with new life and rebirth. Here are a few other meanings: creativity, inspiration, renewal and vitality, awareness and inner reflection, memory and forgiveness. All nice meanings that you can use in your "one-bun".

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until April 10th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, mountains, later on. For now ... have fun!