Carpe Diem's Time Machine #1, Orange

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I love to introduce an all new feature here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. I have called it "Carpe Diem's Time Machine" and it's all about "playing again" prompts from our rich Carpe Diem Haiku Kai history. This new feature will become a bi-weekly feature on Saturdays. And, as the name already says, we will "re-play" prompts from our past starting today with Orange, one of the colors of the rainbow. At the start of Carpe Diem (October 2012) we had a "rainbow-week" in November.

In my country (The Netherlands) we have our Royal Family of Orange, orange is a strong color in my country, but orange can also stand for a citrusfruit. Orange flowers and more orange to see around us ... what do you think of a beautiful sunset or sunrise ... well we shall see what I can do with this theme orange ... have to write at least one haiku.

orange chrysanthemums
in full bloom standing proudly
waving in the wind

(c) Chèvrefeuille

I have to admit that I never have had seen a orange house, but as I was surfing the WWW I ran in to a wonderful picture of a orange house somewhere in Bogota. And I had to write a haiku along going with it.

all day sunrise
what a joy to live in
my orange house

(c) Chèvrefeuille

Orange ... really my color. Here is another haiku which I wrote last year after the World Championship Soccer in Brasil, as you maybe remember our National Soccer team "the Orange Lions" lost there dream at that championship. I wrote this haiku than:

almost full moon
colors orange behind thin clouds -
scattered dreams

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... I have to take the "Time Machine" back to 2015, because I love to share an all new haiku on "orange":

ah! that sweet perfume

oranges and lemons -

a cool summer night

(c) Chèvrefeuille

Awesome ... it's really a joy to look back in our rich history and "play-again" with used prompts. I hope you all like this new feature. This first Time Machine episode I publish earlier ... so today instead of tomorrow ...

this episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until January 17th at noon (CET). I will post our next "Time Machine" episode on that same date. For now .... have fun!