Carpe Diem Special #153, Rallentanda's fifth "a beautiful peace"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Time flies if you have fun or very busy with all the things you do and have to do. Today I have our last Carpe Diem Special for your inspiration. As you all know Rallentanda was our first time winner of our Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Kukai "Wisteria" and she won the chance to be our featured haiku poetess. Rallentanda is a very gifted and talented haiku poetess and I hope to see a lot of her wonderful haiku in the future. I love to thank Rallentanda for the opportunity to use her haiku for these CD-Specials in June and I hope you all did like them as I did.

Before I share her 5th haiku here I have an announcement to make. As asked by several of you, my dear haijin, I have created a special page about the KUKAI. You can find that page above in the menu. At that page you can find the explanation of the kukai and you can find the anonymous list of haiku of our second CDHK Kukai "summertime".
As this episode of CD Special is published than the judging of our second kukai starts too. You have until July 10th 2015 to judge the entries of our second kukai. You can email your points (including the numbers of the haiku of your judging) to our email address:

carpediemhaikukai@gmail.com

Please write "summertime kukai judging" in the subject line !!!

Ok ... back to our CD Special. As you all know the goal of this CD Special is to write an all new haiku trying to catch the same sense, tone and spirit as the given haiku. The last CD-Special by Rallentanda is the following haiku:

a beautiful peace
I sit quietly with them
feeling their presence

© Rallentanda

This haiku you also can find in her e-book "A Carpet of Purple" which is available for downloading at the left side of our Haiku Kai.

The above image goes with the haiku by Rallentanda and maybe it well your inspiration a little bit. Here is my attempt to write a haiku in the same sense, tone and spirit as the one given by Rall. By the way I have tried the karumi style in this one:

shadows
graves seem to move
spirits dance

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... I hope you did like this episode of our CD Special. I am looking forward to our next winner of our CDHK kukai, because he/she will be our featured haiku poet/ess for next month (if the voting goes well, otherwise the winner will be our featured haiku poet/ess of August 2015)

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until June 28th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, outdoor concerts and a new episode of our CD Time Machine, later on. For now .... have fun!

Carpe Diem Special #152, Rallentanda's fourth "friday flowers"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

As you all know this month all our CD Specials are haiku written by Rallentanda, our first kukai winner. And today we have a new CD Special, it's the fourth by Rallentanda and this haiku she wrote a week ago. I love to share it here for your inspiration:

winter - friday night
faces glow like flowers in
soft lighting at the pub

© Rallentanda

A beauty I would say. It's a haiku in which a whole story is told. A story of the gathering of people in a warm cozy pub on a winter night. I think you all can imagine the scene Rall has painted with her words and now it's up to you to try to write/compose an all new haiku in the same sense, tone and spirit as the one by Rall.

Here is my attempt to write/compose an all new haiku inspired on the one by Rall:

warm summer night
drinking together with friends
perfume of Honeysuckle

© Chèvrefeuille

This CD Special is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until June 22nd at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode, long day (summer solstice), later on. For now .... have fun, be inspired and share your inspired haiku with us all.

Carpe Diem Special #151, Rallentanda's third "magnificent day"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

What a joy and really my pleasure to share another wonderful haiku written by our first Kukai winner Rallentanda, who is our featured haiku poetess of this month. I think you all have read her e-book "a carpet of purple" (at the left of our Haiku Kai) and I heard wonderful comments on this e-book. Rallentanda (or Rall) is a gifted haiku poetess and she has really written/composed wonderful haiku.

This one, which I have chosen for today's CD-special is again a beauty ... I think it's one of her masterpieces ....

magnificent day
bees buzz about the garden
by lapis blue sea

© Rallentanda

As you all (maybe) know the goal of the CD-Special is to write/compose another all new haiku (or tanka) inspired on the given haiku and to try to catch the same sense, mood and spirit ... for sure not an easy task ....

Here is my attempt and ... sorry I know it's a cliché ... it's a haiku on cherry blossoms, my favorite theme.

amazing
all cherry trees blossom -
waterfall of colors

© Chèvrefeuille

Credits: waterfall of colors

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until June 16th at noon (CET). I will (try to) publish our new episode, succulents, later on. For now ... have fun, be inspired and share your haiku inspired on the one by Rall with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, the place to be if you like to write and share haiku.

Carpe Diem Special #150, Rallentanda's 2nd haiku fireflies

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I have heard wonderful comments on Rallentanda's e-book (on the left side free for download) and I think you all are right. Rall writes wonderful haiku and for today's CD Special I have another wonderful haiku by her for your inspiration.
Rall wrote this haiku in response on a haiku by Buson last month (May 15th) and I love to share it here again with you to inspire you.

fireflies
torch light dancing to the
crickets chirp

© Rallentanda

Credits: Fireflies (partial)

Not very natural the above image, because in my opinion fireflies do not belong in a jar.

caught in a jar
fireflies sharing their light
sultry summer night

© Chèvrefeuille

And another one:

through trees
a mysterious light
swarm of fireflies

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until June 10th at noon (CET). I will (try to) publish our next episode, alone, later on.
!!! Tonight I also will publish a new CD Time Glass episode, our time challenging feature !!!

Carpe Diem Special #149, Rallentanda's a carpet of purple

credits logo-image

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

What a joy to bring our first CD-Special of this month. As you all (maybe) know the winner of our first kukai "wisteria", Rallentanda, won the opportunity to be our featured haiku poetess this month. And as you can see at the left "A Carpet of Purple" the e-book Rallentanda won for an anthology of her own haiku is available now for download.

For this first CD-Special I have chosen to inspire you all with Rallentanda's winning haiku. As you (maybe) know the goal of the CD-Specials is to write an all new haiku in the same sense, tone and spirit as the one given.

wisteria
fragrant chandeliers drop
a carpet of purple

© Rallentanda 

It's a real beauty and you, my dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, have chosen this haiku as our first kukai winner ....

Credits: Wisteria

Here is my inspired haiku, not a new one, but one from the archives:

in the moonlight
Wisteria flowers look fragile -
a gust of wind

© Chèvrefeuille

By the way .... remember that our second kukai "summertime" is running. You can submit your haiku (max three) until June 15th to our emailaddress:

carpediemhaikukai@gmail.com

I am looking forward to your "summertime" haiku ...

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until June 4th at noon (CET). I will (try to) publish our new episode, a new episode of Tokubetsudesu, later on.

Carpe Diem Extra 21 - 2015 "A Carpet of Purple"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's my pleasure to present to you all "A Carpet of Purple" a compilation of haiku by Rallentanda, the winner of our first CDHK Kukai "Wisteria".

Rallentanda has made a wonderful compilation of her haiku and together we have created "A Carpet of Purple". I think we have done a great job and I hope it will be worth all the efforts ...

You can find "A Carpet of Purple" at the left side of our Haiku Kai where it is available for download.

Enjoy the read.

Chèvrefeuille, your host