Carpe Diem Time Challenge #4 rainy days

 

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I remember that I said that I wouldn't do the weekend-meditations again, but I have given that idea a new thought. I decided to create every Saturday a Carpe Diem Time Challenge for you. That nice feature in which I challenge you to create a haiku or tanka in a short period of time.

For this weekend I have chosen the theme "rainy days". Create a haiku or tanka with that theme within 48 hours. 

left behind in the rain
the bench we shared this summer -
missing your laugh

© Chèvrefeuille

What a sad tone this haiku/senryu has ... but isn't that what rainy days do sometimes with us?

Well ... it's up to you  now. Create a haiku or tanka within 48 hours themed "rainy days". You can add your submission to the linking widget hereafter. Have a great weekend.

Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #89 Extreme Haibun ... rain

!! Open for your submissions next Sunday June 16th at 7:00 PM (CEST) !!

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new weekend meditation here at our wonderful Haiku Kai. The place to be if you like to create and share Japanese poetry. This weekend I have chosen to challenge you with an extreme haibun.

An extreme haibun is, as you maybe remember, a haibun is prose and poetry together, a kind of symbiosis so to say. I will give you a theme and than I challenge you to create an extreme haibunwith a maximum of 100 words including the poems.

For this extreme haibun I have chosen the theme "RAIN". Create a haibun themed rain and share it with us all here at our Haiku Kai.

Rain

Enjoy your weekend. This weekend meditation is open for your submissions next Sunday June 16th at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until June 23rd at noon (CEST).

Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #79 Poetry Archive (4) rain

!! Open for your submissions next Sunday April 7th at 7:00 PM (CEST) !!

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new weekend meditation here at CDHK. This weekend I love to challenge you again to dive into your Poetry Archive. Choose a haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetryform themed "rain" from your archive and share it with us all.
Maybe that poem has a special meaning for you and I love to hear that too ofcourse. After sharing your poem from your archive create a new poem inspired on your choice poem.

Ofcourse I also took a dive into my archives and I ran into a few rain haiku:

the moon hides
behind clouds while witches dance
begging for rain

ah! that coolness
raindrops on my naked body
hot Summer day

© Chèvrefeuille

The above haiku I composed several years ago. We had a heatwave here in The Netherlands and we celebrated our holiday in our mobile home somewhere in our country. It was really hot and I was reading a novel by Paulo Coelho titled Brida. Brida is about a girl who is searching for a mistress or master to teach her about witchcraft. I created that first haiku inspired on Brida.
The second haiku created at the end of the heatwave ... finally it started to rain, but it was still warm, so I decided to go outside totally naked to feel the rain on my skin. It felt wonderful, but ofcourse after a while the coolness of the rain faded ... but that hot Summer Day I can still remember.

Dancing In The Rain (Leonid Afremov)

Well ... I have to create an all new haiku ... so here is my new haiku themed "rain":

dancing around the fire
after a hot summer day -
expecting rain 

© Chèvrefeuille

Not as strong as I had hoped, but I like the painted scene in this one.

Now it is up to you. Take your time, you have the whole weekend to meditate and contemplate on the theme before you submit your poetry.

This episode is open for your submissions next Sunday April 7th at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until April 14th at noon (CEST). Have a wonderful weekend.

Carpe Diem #1484 pouring rain

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

What a joy to bring you all a new episode of our wonderful Kai. This place is for you. During the years of our existence, almost six years, we have become a warmhearted family of haiku-loving Haijin. And that makes me proud. I thank you all for being part of this warmhearted family and I hope we will be here as we are celebrating our 10th anniversary in 2022, but that's for later.

Again it is tropical weather here in The Netherlands, today temperatures rose to almost 40 degrees Celsius, to much to handle for the Dutch people. Nature needs water, we need water ... but it looks like that will be faraway for us. We need rain .... a lot of rain.

Pouring Rain (image found on Pinterest; photo © Kiki Sloane)

after the heat
finally pouring rain
I dance naked

© Chèvrefeuille

I really hope that there will be rain very soon, because we the Dutch ... need water, not only for our selves, but also for nature.

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

Carpe Diem #749 rain

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

yesterday we had 'clouds' as prompt and today it's about rain just a coincidence that these two prompts follow after each other. I hadn't planned it that way, but I think it works in a great way.
Rain ... what is rain? I think you all know what rain is, but it seems ok to look at rain for a short moment.

Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then precipitated—that is, become heavy enough to fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. It provides suitable conditions for many types of ecosystems, as well as water for hydroelectric power plants and crop irrigation.

I remember that we had several prompts in our CDHK history about rain e.g winter rain (december 2012) and midsummer rain in June 2013. So maybe this prompt is a reprise one, but to me that's not a problem. Today's prompt rain is also distilled from Jane Reichhold's "A Dictionary of Haiku", our leading saijiki this month full of wonderful modern seasonwords. In her saijiki she gives a lot of example haiku on rain. And it really is a joy to share a few of them with you all here today.

bending without wind
the green leaves accept
a sudden shower

rain showers
on the grassy field
dew and moonlight

welcoming the spots
on my new cotton dress
summer rain

© Jane Reichhold

As I was preparing this episode I ran into a South Korean singer-songwriter with the (stage)name Rain and I was really anxious to hear music written by him. So I sought on You Tube and found a wonderful song by him. Just a treat ... 

A nice song I think, very modern .... but I enjoyed listening to it. Ok back to our prompt for today. Rain as part of summer brought me several haiku which I love to share here with you all:

after a hot day
lightning and thunder
midsummer rain

midsummer rain
finally the heat has gone
after a hot day

almost naked
dancing in the Solstice rain
ah! that coolness

ah! that coolness
raindrops on my naked body
hot Summer day

© Chèvrefeuille

And for closure a haiga which I made several years ago.

I realize that the choice of text-color isn't that great so I will reproduce the haiku on this haiga here another time:

raindrops on bamboo
shimmering in the sunlight
little diamonds

© Chèvrefeuille

Enjoyed this episode? Than I hope it will inspire you to write an all new haiku and share it with us. Here is a new one composed by myself:

clouds gather
after a warm summer day
the sound of rain

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until June 7th at noon (CET). I will (try to) publish our new episode, a time machine episode, later on.

Carpe Diem #682, Raindrops

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode of our fantastic and fabulous haiku family blog. Today I have a nice (but short) post for you all. Our new episode is titled "raindrops" and the first thing which came in my mind was a song "raindrops keep falling on my head" and I love to share that song here for your inspiration (and mine of course).

The song is by B.J. Thomas and comes from the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" .... I love this song, but I only knew it sung by Sinatra, but this one is the original and it sounds great.

I hope this song will inspire you to write an all new haiku and share it with us in a haiga. Here is my attempt:

Credits: raindrops

I couldn't find a nice picture by myself, so I used the above picture to create this haiga. I hope this post will inspire you to create a beautiful haiga ...

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and it will remain open until March 11th at noon (CET). I will (try to) publish our new episode, brush, later on. For now ... have fun, be inspired and share your haiga with us all.

Carpe Diem's Tan Renga Challenge #3 "the rainy season"

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

What a joy to read all of your completions of the Tan Renga last week. I have really read awesome second stanzas and I hope this new episode of our Tan Renga Challenge will bring that joy again.
For this episode I have chosen a haiku by Buson, one of the four greatest haiku masters next to Basho, Issa and Shiki.

Haiga by Buson

shishoku shite roka toru ya satsukiame

the rainy season
a paper lantern in hand
I walk along the verandah

In his 3rd Volume of Haiku, Blyth says abthis haiku by Buson, the following:

It is deep night, and the rain sounds louder now than in the day-time. The dripping does not cease. Along the dark verandah walks the poet, with slow and silent steps, holding a paper lantern in one cold hand. There is in this verse something of what Keats expressed with more effort and wordiness in "The Eve of St. Agnes":

[...] and the long carpets rose along the gusty floor [...]

But Keats is almost entirely objective, whereas in Buson, who is among the most objective of haiku poets, there is something subjective. Even when the poet has passed through it, the corridor remains palpitating dark, alive in its length; the wind and rain are still heard though there is no one to hear them.

Credits: Rainy Season

A wonderful haiku by Buson I think and now it is up to you to write the second stanza (7-7). Copy and paste the first stanza (5-7-5) as given here into your post and include your second stanza to complete the Tan Renga. Have fun !!!

I will give the first stanza of this Tan Renga here again and I include my second stanza.

the rainy season
a paper lantern in hand
I walk along the verandah             (Buson)

a gust of wind blows in my face
scatters the light I hold                 (Chèvrefeuille)

This Tan Renga Challenge will stay on 'til June 29th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post the new Tan Renga Challenge after the closing time of this one. (!! The linking Widget for this episode of our Tan Renga Challenge will open at 4.00 PM (CET) !!)

PS.: I have published our prompt-list for July. In this month the Special episodes are all haiku written by Jane Reichhold. So this new month of Carpe Diem will be a joy.


Namaste

Carpe Diem #219, Samidare (midsummer rain)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Yesterday we entered our mid-summer kigo and today our prompt is very specific related to mid-summer. Today we share haiku on Samidare (midsummer rain). Samidare or midsummer rain refers to the rain during the Rainy Season (from mid-june to mid-july).

I found a nice haiku by Basho. In this haiku he uses Samidare, but in his time, Samidare stood for rain in the first lunar moon of Summer (May). Later Samidare became a kigo for the Rainy Season.

the sun's way:

hollyhocks turn toward it

through all the rains of May

(c) Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

after a hot day
lightning and thunder
midsummer rain

midsummer rain
finally the heat has gone
after a hot day

almost naked 

dancing in the Solstice rain
ah! that coolness

ah! that coolness
raindrops on my naked body
hot Summer day

OK ... that was it for today ... have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here on Carpe Diem. This prompt will stay on 'til June 13th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our next episode, Taue (Rice Planting), later on today around 10.00 PM (CET).

Namaste

Carpe Diem Special #21, Chiyo-Ni's Spring Rain

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

After our short trip around the world we ended up in Japan yesterday and there we stay another day as I am sharing our next Carpe Diem Special written by Chiyo-Ni, our female haiku master of this month. I have found a really nice haiku written by her.

harusame ya utsukushiu naru mono bakari


Spring rain
everything just grows
more beautiful

Morning Glory

Isn't it a beauty?

sunny raindrops
sparkle like crystal
Spring rain

Spring rain
soothing and moisturizing -
her sound

Have fun and share your haiku inspired on the one by Chiyo-Ni and maybe in the same tone and Spirit as hers.

This prompt will stay on 'till February 11th 11.59 AM (CET) and I wil post our new episode, Stork (provided by Ese), later on today around 10.00 PM (CET) PS.: It could be somewhat later because I am in the nightshift.

Carpe Diem #53, Rain (provided by Bjorn Brudberg)

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Today Bjorn Brudberg provided us with the prompt rain  a wonderful prompt to write haiku with. I can remember that I have once posted on Chèvrefeuille's Haikublog a haiku for Haiku Heights September Challenge 2012 with rain for prompt. I even recall that episode was a good one. So I hope for today that you, my dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, can write lovely haiku on rain. I am looking forward to your posts.

Credits: Rain

What a beautiful rain-photo don't you think too? For inspiration maybe? Let's go and do some haiku composing on rain.

I love to share a haiku written by Kobayashi Issa, our November haiku-master:

spring rain -
growing side by side
the talking pines

The Pines 'voices' refer to the sighing of wind through their branches. And 'growing side by side' refers to married people. With this haiku came a prescript 'Congratulations on a new marriage'.

Another one by Issa:

the bright moon in raindrops
from the eaves ...
the geese depart

Both verses by Issa are well done ... they paint each a nice imagery ... in this Issa was a master.

OK ... now I have to write a haiku or two by myself ... let me think ...

on bamboo sprouts
the shimmering sunlight
in raindrops

Another one:

the old pond's face
trembled by the heavy rains -
my face wrinkled

And what do you think of this one?

every raindrop
a little rainbow diamond
in the early sunlight

Well ... what a joy to write these little gems for you my dear friends.

For closure a nice haiga. Enjoy today's prompt, be inspired and creative, share your haiku with us on Carpe Diem.

This prompt will stay on 'till November 26th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our new prompt love later on today around 10.00 PM (CET).

Namaste