Carpe Diem #1478 Harbor

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Time for a new episode of our wonderful Haiku Kai, the place to be if you like write and share Japanese poetry like haiku and tanka. Today I will give you a beautiful image for your inspiration. It's (again) a photo from my hometown, but I also have a question for you. Let me give you first the image for your inspiration and after that my question.

The Harbor of my hometown (image © Chèvrefeuille)

And here is my question: You may use this image for your inspiration or share an image taken in your neighborhood or hometown and share your inspired Japanese poetry on your own image.

I enter the harbor
finally home again
after the storm
seagulls cry, their sad voice
a treasure for my heart

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until July 25th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode later on. For now ... have fun and awaken your muses!

Carpe Diem, #16 Harbor

Dear haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome to a new day in Carpe Diem's first month of daily haiku pleasure. Today the prompt is harbor. I live at the seashore and my town has a harbor. So this must be an easy to write prompt for me today ... and I hope it will be easy for you too.

My hometown (Lelystad, The Netherlands) has several harbors, but at the most important one we have a great statue called 'exposure'. It's a great steel structure and it shows a squatting man that looks over the IJsselmeer (a large lake, a former sea called Zuiderzee) that's the result of the dutch reclaim of land from the waters. Here in my hometown 'exposure' is sometimes called 'the shitting man', because it looks like someone who's shitting in free nature.

"Exposure"

 "Exposure" is guarding our harbor and it's a wonderful piece of art. You can say that "exposure" is the business card of our town.

guardian angel
looks out over the harbor
a shitting man

a shitting man
constructed out of steel
guards the harbor

guards the harbor
exposed to the weather
guardian angel

Well ... what do you think? I love this cascade very much and it was a joy to compose it for Carpe Diem.

This prompt will stay on 'till October 17th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our prompt thunderstorm for October 17th around 10.00 PM (CET). Have fun, be inspired and write and share your haiku with us on Carpe Diem.
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