Carpe Diem #1778 Free-styling haiku ...

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode in our wonderful "Never Change A Winning Team" month in which we celebrate the beauty of haiku. I have what they call "a writer's block", so I couldn't come up with a beautiful episode today, therefore I have chosen to let you free ...

You can make your own choice of a haiku, maybe there is a special haiku that means a lot to you, or you have a favorite haiku written by a classical or non-classical haiku poet, maybe you will introduce one of your own masterpieces ... that's all possible today.

The only thing I would love to read in your post is "Why did you choose this specific haiku?" and I challenge you to create a new haiku inspired on the haiku of your choice.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will reain open until November 17th at noon (CET). Have fun!

Carpe Diem #1769 free choice of prompt, and make a Soliloquy No Renga with it

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I am a bit late with publishing this episode, just because of lack of time and lack of inspiration. So today I have chosen for a so called "free choice" episode with a twist. You may choose your own "little creatures" prompt today and the goal is to create a "solo-renga" or "soliloquy no renga" with it. As you (maybe) know the "solo-renga" has at least six (6) stanza. You start with the "hokku" (starting verse) and end with the "ageku" (closing verse).

We are celebrating our 7th birthday with a whole month in honor of the small creatures of Mother Nature ... let us celebrate the beauty of the small things of Creation.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until October 31st at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new weekend meditation later on. For now .... have fun!

Carpe Diem Weekend-Meditation #8 Free Styling

!! Open for your submissions next Sunday November 26th at 7:00 PM (CET) !!

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new weekend-meditation here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. This weekend I have something new for you. This weekend-meditation has a twist in it. I will give you only a few themes to work with and you may choose your own Japanese poetry form that's why I titled it "free styling".

Here are the themes you can choose from:

first snow; autumn leaves; sunrays; 

new day rising; Santoka Taneda; 

haibun; troiku

Well ... I think you have enough choices and I hope you will find inspiration to create your Japanese poetry ... go for it ... feel free ... go free styling ... let go of the classic rules ... feel free to choose.

This "free-styling" weekend-meditation is open for your submissions next Sunday November 26th at 7:00 PM (CET) and will remain open until December 3rd at noon (CET). Have a great weekend!

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.