Carpe Diem #1698 Hot Summer Night ... Imagination

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode in this "Summer Love" month. This month we are celebrating summer and all that belongs to the time of year. Today I have chosen to challenge you with an Imagination episode. As you all know in an imagination episode I will give you a photo for your inspiration. Ofcourse if you love to use a photo or image made by yourself than that's okay too.

Here is the photo to inspire you. You can choose your own Japanese poetry form this time ... so go for it. Create a Troiku, a haiku, a haibun or other Japanese poetry form inspired on the given (or your own) photo.

Hot Summer Night

A beautiful photo I think to work with. I respect every kind of love, because it's not up to me to disrespect the choices people make.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until July 15th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode later on. For now ... have fun!!

Carpe Diem #1697 Renga With Jane Reichhold ... placing the flute

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode of our wonderful Kai. This month it's all about "Summer Love" in the broadest sense of the word. So I hope this month will trigger you to create wonderful "summer love" poems.

The weekend is almost over and I hope you all have had a great weekend full of inspiration. I had a busy weekend, because I had to work at the nursing home for the elderly people were I am working since the start of this year after the bankrupcy of the hospital were I was working. It's still a strange feeling that a hospital can go in bankrupcy, but well I have still the work that I love ... being an oncology-nurse. At this new workplace I have the responsibility for the care for our oncology patients and I am responsible for the implementation of the oncology care. A wonderful challenge I can say, but it takes a lot of my time, but ... it gives me a lot satisfaction.

For this new regular episode I have chosen to challenge you to create a "Renga with Jane Reichhold". I have extracted six haiku from her "A Dictionary of Haiku", Summer section, to work with. I hope you all will enjoy this challenge and (of course) I hope your Renga With Jane will be a tribute for her to honor her. She is still missed dearly ...

Here are the six haiku I have chosen:

wind perfumed
from a woman's shoulder
desert night

dancing on the beach
I jab a stick into the sky
to break up the blue

days so complete
words become the calls of birds
the high tide wind

placing the flute

placing the flute
against her lips something
slips into place

I'm not old
all night my eyes have held
the ancient stars

moon white water
lovers in the secret cove
Saturday night

© Jane Reichhold (1937-2016)

Six beautiful haiku to work with. You can chose your own "line-up", add your two lined stanza (approx. 7-7 syllables) and try to make the "chain complete". The first (hokku) and the last (ageku) haiku have to have a slight connection.

This episode is open for your submissions tonight at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until July 14th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode, full of summer love, later on. For now ... have fun!!

Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #92 Quest for a new masterpiece ... Sun Rays

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

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new (belated) weekend meditation here at our wonderful Haiku Kai. This weekend I love to challenge to create a new masterpiece ... our quest continues. This weekend I love to challenge you with creating a new masterpiece that follows the classical rules. (See above in the menu CDHK Lecture 1)

Of course I will give you a theme too. This month we are creating all poems themed "Summer Love", so for your masterpiece I give you the following theme: Sun Rays.

Sun Rays

I am looking forward to all of your wonderful (new) masterpieces.

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

Carpe Diem #1696 Beach Love

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode in our wonderful Haiku Kai ... Summer Love. All the themes have to do with summer and the best part of summer ... love. Today I have chosen a nice theme I think. Today I love to challenge you to create Tanka (only tanka) on Beach Love ... As you all know the summer beach is one of the places were coupl es find each other in love. Not only just love but also sex. So this is a challenge. Create a Tanka themed "Beach Love", and try to bring in that sexuality, sensuality or erotic feeling.

You know I am not a good Tanka poet, but I had to try ... to create a Tanka with our theme for today.

lying on the beach
I hear the whispering surf
while I dream of her
memories of steaming love
with sand on our buttocks

© Chèvrefeuille

Beach Love by Galo

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until July 11th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new weekend meditation later on. For now ... enjoy your Beach Love.

Carpe Diem #1695 Ice Cream ... Troiku

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode in this new CDHK month July 2019, about Summer Love. This time I have chosen for another nice summer theme, Ice Cream. Of course ice cream isn't specific for summer, because you can eat ice cream whole year, but in summer the ice cream gives us the coolness we need on a warm summer day.

I found a nice haiku themed "ice cream" written by S.D. Tiwari:

snow fall in belly
adding lusciousness to feast 
vanilla ice cream

© S.D. Tiwari

With this haiku I challenge you to create a Troiku.

Ice Cream

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until July 10th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode later on. Have a taste .... of Vanilla Ice Cream.

Carpe Diem #1694 summer cocktails

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode in our Summer Love month. This month it's all about summer love in all the ways we know it. Today I have chosen the theme "summer cocktails" and I think that don't needs further explanation.

Summer Cocktail

together with my love
coming at peace in the summer night
sharing our cocktail

© Chèvrefeuille

Just an impromptu haiku ... themed "summer cocktails" and now it is up to you. Create a haiku in which you create a scene full of love ...

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until July 9th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode later on. For now ... cheers ... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1693 Two Hearts Together ... Tanka Suite

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode of our wonderful Haiku Kai. This month it's all about love, more specific, summer love. I think everyone of us has sweet memories of his her summer loves. Maybe you had a holiday lover, or are you more of the one night stands. Love we have to cherish with all our heart.

I remember a first love that made me "mad", I loved a guy ... I think I was in my late teens and before this I had only relationships with girls, but this guy ... I don't know he had something. Something that made him attractive. He was kind and loving. He was always ready to help people around him ... so maybe it wasn't love as in a realtionship, but more a kind of love for his character, his loving spirit. I don't know. I love people and as we all know people are guys and girls. I live out of the idea of unconditional love for all and everything ...

Two Hearts Together

Today I have a "new" challenge for you. I love to challenge you to create a so called Tanka Suite. A Suite is a series of poems, at least six and at the most 12 poems. A Suite is a kind of short story created with poems. And this Tanka Suite is themed "Two Hearts Together". Enjoy this challenge.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until July 8th at noon (CEST). I wll try to publish our new episode later on.