Carpe Diem #1715 Field Of Flowers ...

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new month of creativity with all kinds of Japanese poetry ... our wonderful haiku family Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. This month I have chosen to use only flower prompts. This month the theme I have chosen is "Field Of Flowers" and this is our first prompt of August ... Fields Of Flowers.

along our life's path
straight through the meadow of love -
a field of flowers

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until August 8th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode later on. For now ... have fun!

Delayed post

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Our new episode, the first of August is delayed. I hope to publish later today.

Namasté,

Chėvrefeuille, your host.

Carpe Diem #1714 Summer Has Ended ... free styling

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

First my apologies for being late with this last episode of July 2019, I had a busy evening shift. Here it is the last episode of our Summer Love month and in this last episode you can choose your own Summer Love prompt. So this is a "free-styling" episode. Feel free to choose your prompt, feel free to create any kind of Japanese poetry and share it with us all here at our wonderful Kai.

This month was a joy to create and I hope you all did enjoy it.

End Of Summer

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until August 6th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our first episode of August later on ... I don't have decided what theme we will have ... so that will be a surprise for us all.

Carpe Diem #1713 Summer Love ... a full circle challenge

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at the penultimate episode of this wonderful CDHK "Summer Love" month. All the prompts were in a way connected to summer love and you all did a great job on this theme. Today I have chosen an episode of one of our not so renown special features, "Full Circle".

Let me tell you what the goal is of this feature "full circle": The goal is to write haiku with twelve (12) words I will give. It's a kind of word-whirl and you have to use the words given in the clock-wise direction. So every word has to come in the line of it's place on the clock e.g. sunflower you have to use for line one (1) and rain storm for line two (2) and so on.

I will give you twelve (12) words (for every ''hour'') one word. The goal is to write haiku using the words as given in the clock wise way.

Here are the 12 (twelve) words for this new episode:

1. summer love
2. rain storm
3. beach
4. sea shore
5. shells
6. making love
7. garden
8. waterfall
9. stones
10. French kiss
11. sunflower
12. shadow

If you follow the words clock wise than you can compose four new haiku.

French Kiss (credits of photo not known)

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until August 5th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish the last "Summer Love" episode later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem #1712 twilight

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome a new episode in our wonderful CDHK month about "Summer Love". Today I have chosen for the theme "twilight" that small period between day and night that I find amazing in summer. The last rays of sunlight against the deep blue nightsky. Stars twinkle and the constellations we all know so well are starting to become visible. An amazing time ...

I remember when I was a youngster (say end teens) I lived in a town close to the North Sea and I had my first date with a beautiful girl. She worked at the same institution for the mentally disabled. She really was a gorgeous girl and one day, we both had a few days off, we decided to take a room at a small hotel close to the North Sea. We had a room with a view on the sea ... It was a wonderful, but hot, summer day. The sky was blue without clouds, the sun was downing and the day ran to its end. It was the most wonderful sunset I had ever seen, maybe because I was watching it with her. We sat on the balcony, a glass of white wine in our hands ... It was there that we made love the very first time and that was fantastic, because it was in that strange moment of the day we call "twilight".

Twilight (photo © Joisey Showaa)

An amazing time of the day ... that's for sure, but to create a haiku or tanka with it, will not be easy I think. Well I have given it a try:

in the twilight
only the song of cicadas -
my love's breathing

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... a nice one I think and now it is up to you. This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until August 4th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new episode later on. For now ... have fun!

Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #95 Quest for a new masterpiece ... sunflowers

!! Open for your submissions next Sunday July 28th at 7:00 PM (CEST) !!

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new weeken meditation her at CDHK. This weekend I love to challenge you to create a new masterpiece ... so our quest continues ... For this weekend I have chosen the theme "sunflowers" I challenge you to create a new masterpiece (haiku or tanka) themed "sunflowers". I will give you an example:

in my garden
sunflowers bow their heads
in honor of the sun

Sunflower Field (Tuscany, Italy)

only sunflowers
those beautiful little suns
in my garden

Both haiku I created back in 2012, around the time that I started with CDHK, so these are special to me.

Are these masterpieces? I don't know, for me they are, because of their meaning to me ... the start of CDHK back in 2012.

This weekend meditation is open for your submissions next Sunday July 28th at 7:00 PM (CEST) and will remain open until August 4th at noon (CEST). Have a great weekend!

Carpe Diem #1711 flowers (modern kigo) - Troiku

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a delayed episode of our wonderful Haiku Kai. My excuses for being this late, but today it was to hot to create a new episode. Another weather record has been broken here in The Netherlands. Today it was almost 41 degrees Celsius and that's hot for our Dutch people. It is still hot right now (23:00 hr) almost 30 degrees Celsius and I am sweating as I have never done before.

Today I have chosen a modern kigo from Jane Reichhold's "A Dictionary of Haiku", from the section Summer, subsection plants ... today our theme is flowers. I have a nice haiku for you created by Jane and the task is to create a Troiku with it. (More on Troiku above in the menu). Here is the haiku to use for your Troiku:

depth of a flower
flying away with the bee
some mystery

© Jane Reichhold (1937-2016)

Summer Flowers (image found on Pinterest)

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until August 1st at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new weekend meditation later on. For now ... enjoy the beauty of summer flowers.