Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #72 Introducing a new feature: Poetry Archive (1)

!! Open for your submissions next Sunday 17th at 7:00 PM (CET) !!

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's weekend again and that means time for a new weekend meditation. I have given it a thought and I decided to create a new feature for you all. No themes or prompts ... just your own free will, your own free choice for your poetry.

This new feature I have titled "Poetry Archive" and I think you all know what this new feature is about? Yes ... that's correct ... I invite you to dive into your poetry archive and share haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form that mean a lot to you. Please share with us why you did made the choice and try to create a new haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form inspired on the poem you have chosen.

Poetry Archive (credits for this image I have used)

In our daily episodes I use often haiku (sometimes tanka) taken from my archive just because I love them and I don't have enough inspiration to create new ones. So I think you all will have sometimes a period of less inspiration ... and maybe you even have shared poetry from your archive.

For this new feature "Poetry Archive" I challenge you to pick a haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form from your "Poetry Archive" and share it, together with the background on your choice, with us all and create a new one inspired on your own.

Of course I have chosen a haiku from my archive. It's a haiku that I love very much and I think you will know it too.

Here is my choice from my archive:

This one I wrote several years ago and I used it a few times here at our wonderful Kai. It was inspired on one of the haiku by Matsuo Basho, my sensei. With this haiku I gave tribute to him, honoring him as my sensei. So this haiku is very dear to me.

ancient warriors ghosts
mists over the foreign highlands -
waiting for the full moon

© Chèvrefeuille

Ancient Warrior's Ghost (image found on Pinterest)

And here is a new haiku inspired on this haiku from my archive:

entering the dreamworld
I find myself on an ancient battlefield
red poppies bloom

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... I think you will need the weekend as much as I do, and I hope you all will have a wonderful weekend.

This weekend meditation "Poetry Archive" is open for your submissions next Sunday February 17th at 7:00 PM (CET) and will remain open until February 24th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new regular episode later on. For now .... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1607 Tan Renga Challenge Month 2019 (11) an open window

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode of our Tan Renga Challenge Month 2019 ... this month we are only busy with creating Tan Renga and I can see that you all enjoy it. Today I have a new Hineri episode for you. Hineri means "with a twist" and for today's Tan Renga Challenge this means that you not only have to write the second stanza, but also a third and fourth stanza ... so it is a four verse Renga to create (3 lines; 2 lines; 3 lines and 2 lines).

Back in 2018 I started with a new feature "crossroads" in which I challenged you to create a "fusion-ku" from two given haiku. Somewhere in April 2018 I created a "fusion-ku" and that "fusion-ku" is the haiku to start with.

Butterfly (photo © Chèvrefeuille)

Here is that haiku:

the sound of the surf
enters my home through the open window
and a butterfly

© Chèvrefeuille (2018)

And now it is up to you to create the 2nd stanza (2-lines), the 3rd stanza (3-lines) and the 4th stanza (2lines) inspired / associated on the given haiku.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until February 21st at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new weekend meditation later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1606 Tan Renga Challenge Month 2019 (10) White Bush Clover

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new (somewhat belated) episode of our wonderful Tan Renga Challenge Month 2019. This month all the themes / prompts are haiku by modern and non-modern haikupoets. The goal this month is to create a Tan Renga with the given haiku by adding your second stanza of approximately 14 syllables associated on images and scenes in the given haiku.

Today I have a wonderful haiku by one of my favorite haiku poets, Masaoka Shiki, the haiku poet who brought haiku into the 20th century. He has written a lot of haiku and I think his haiku are wonderful.

White Bush Clover

Here is the haiku to work with:

the white bush clovers
drop the dewdrops
frequently

(c) Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902)

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until February 20th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1605 Tan Renga Challenge Month 2019 (9) first day of spring

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode of our beautiful Haiku Kai. This month it's Tan Renga Challenge Month so all our regular episodes are Tan Renga to complete (or to continue). For today's episode I have chosen a nice (renown) haiku by Basho, my master, one of the most famous haiku poets.

First day of spring--
I keep thinking about
the end of autumn.

© Matsuo Basho (Tr Robert Hass)

First Day Of Spring

What a nice haiku to work with ... here is my hummble attempt:

First day of spring--
I keep thinking about
the end of autumn.                                                 © Basho

sweet memories to cherish
cherry blossom viewing with my love                   © Chèvrefeuille

Hm ... I like this continuation (how immodest) of the haiku by Basho.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until February 19th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode later on.

Carpe Diem #1604 Tan Renga Challenge Month 2019 (8) sunday morning

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Another new Tan Renga Challenge to start ... this time I have chosen a beauty by Jane Reichhold (1937-2016) to work with. As you all know Jane was a co-host here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai and she once said: "Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is best website on haiku, tanka and other Japanese poetry on the Internet". Of course I was (and still am) proud that she said that about our wonderful CDHK Family. I believe that her spirit is still dwelling here at our Kai. She will always be part of CDHK and I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to know her and have her as a friend.

So today I hope you will create a Tan Renga in honor of Jane, a tribute to her wonderful spirit.

white waves kneeling

sunday morning 
all the waves in white
kneeling on the beach

© Jane Reichhold (1937-2016)

A wonderful haiku to work with ... this episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until February 18th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode later on.

Carpe Diem #1603 Tan Renga Challenge Month 2019 (7) phoenix

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

First I have to apologise to you for bein glate with publishing our new regular episode. My excuses for being late, but that said ... time to go on with a new Tan Renga Challenge, because that's what we are doing this whole month ... Tan Renga Challenges.

I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend and that your weekend was one of inspiration and joy. Today I have chosen a wonderful haiku to work with created by one of our family members. I haven't ask her yet, but I think she will not have a problem with using her haiku here at our wonderful Kai. I have chosen a haiku created by Dolores of Ada's Poetry Alcove. She wrote this haiku in response on the "rebirth" of our Time Glass feature last week.

rebirth
tendrils of love spread
through poetry

© Dolores

The Phoenix by Evolvana (DevianArt; image found on Pinterest)

A wonderful haiku to work with I think, I hadn't inspiration to create the 2nd stanza to this Tan Renga, but I love to share a haiku from my archives:

phoenix spreads its wings
after the dark cold winter night
finally spring

© Chèvrefeuille (2015)

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until February 17th at noon (CET). I will try to publish our new episode later on. For now ... be inspired!

Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #71 Crossroads Hineri ... cherry blossom

!! Open for your submissions next Sunday February 10th at 7:00 PM (CET) !!

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new weekend meditation episode here at our wonderful Haiku Kai. I created this special feature a few years ago to give me some time off ... and I am glad I have created it, because it's a joy to have a few days off.

This weekend I love to challenge you with a Crossroads Hineri episode. As you know Crossroads is the feature to create a fusion-ku from two given haiku. This weekend it's a Crossroads Hineri episode and that means that you not only have to create a fusion-ku, but also a Troiku with your fusion-ku.

Yesterday I read a Japanese news paper and in that paper was the first cherry blossom forecast. The cherry blossom forecast gives the Japanese people the opportunity to go cherry blossom viewing, because for the Japanese that is a wonderful event.

Cherry Blossom

So the theme for this weekend meditation is Cherry Blossom (viewing). I have chosen two haiku created by myself to work with. I have taken those haiku from one of our exclusive CDHK E-books titled "fragile beauty".

standing naked
in awe of the first cherry blossom
dancing in the garden

on winter's edge
the first Cherry blossom blooms
rain falls softly

© Chèvrefeuille

Two haiku from my archives taken from "fragile beauty" (you can find the complete E-book in our CDHK Library) to work with. You all know I love Cherry Blossoms and to me it's always a joy to see the first cherry blossom in my Sakura in the backyard.

Goal for this weekend meditation is to create a "fusion-ku" with / from the given haiku and to create a Troiku (more on Troiku you can find in the menu) with your "fusion-ku".

This episode is open for your submissions next Sunday February 10th at 7:00 PM (CET) and will remain open until February 17th at noon (CET). Have a great weekend!