Haiku Shuukan #18, Rose

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's a joy to prepare a new episode of our weekly haiku-meme Haiku Shuukan. I see sometimes new names, but also family-members of our Carpe Diem Haiku Family which is not only this weblog, but several other weblogs too.
For example our Carpe Diem Haiku Family has two weblogs at Wordpress and they are also worth visiting. Here are the URL's of these Wordpress weblogs:

Carpe Diem Haiku Family on this weblog I have also a few haiku-memes, but those are not on a regular bases ... here your can share your haiku inspired on a prompt given in our "Shadow"-meme and on our "reprise"-meme (were I publish on a irregular base prompts from older post of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai on Blogspot.

Carpe Diem's "Tackle It Tuesday" on this weblog, a weekly haiku-meme on (as the name already says) Tuesdays. At this weblog I am giving a weekly prompt more based on the "spiritual" ways of haiku.

Baccarat Rose

But ... that is that ... back to our prompt for this week rose. the Queen of the Flowers, as I may call her that? I love roses and they are so special ... I can remember the first time that I bought a bouquet of roses for my wife. I had asked her to marry me and after that I had a nice romantic dinner organized for the two of us. The keeper of the restaurant was great. She had prepared a nice table in a cosy corner of the restaurant and had decorated the table with the very big bouquet of Baccarat roses (red of course) which I had bought for my wife. Candles burnt and Champaign already in wonderful flutes of crystal ... it was really awesome ... and yes she said yes. Well .... this happened 25 years ago (1989) and we married in April 1991 after the birth of our first son.

roses for my love
on the floor before the fireplace -
the sound of Champaign

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... I hope you did like this little story and that it will inspire you to write new haiku. This episode will be open for your submissions at noon (CET) and it will remain open until next Friday August 22nd at noon (CET). For now ... have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at Carpe Diem's Haiku Shuukan.

Haiku Shuukan #17, Quetzalcoatl

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Another week has gone by ... and so it is time for a new episode of our weekly haiku meme Haiku Shuukan. This week our prompt isn't easy, because it starts with a Q and it refers to the once golden culture of the Inca. This week our prompt is Quetzalcoatl  the Sun God of the Inca.
So maybe your haiku can be about Sun, the Inca or the Andes for example. I hope you will be inspired by this prompt.

Quetzalcoatl

Here is my attempt to write a haiku on Quetzalcoatl:

as the day rises
Quetzalcoatl climbs the sky -
sparkling dew-drops

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode is NOW open until next Friday August 15th at noon.

Haiku Shuukan #16, Persimmon

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Time flies ... it's like sand that flows through my fingers ... a new week has come for Haiku Shuukan. This week I have a nice prompt for you to use for your inspiration. This week's prompt is Persimmon.

Persimmons are the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros. Diospyros is in the family Ebenaceae. The most widely cultivated species is the Asian persimmon, Diospyros kaki. In colour the ripe fruit of the cultivated strains range from light yellow-orange to dark red-orange depending on the species and variety. They similarly vary in size from 1.5 to 9 cm (0.5 to 4 in) in diameter, and in shape the varieties may be spherical, acorn-, or pumpkin-shaped.

Credits: Persimmon tree Yamagata, Japan

I am not familiar with this kind of fruit ... so I have sought for a few examples of haiku with Persimmon in it. It turned out that Shiki for example was completly into Persimmons and that he wrote a lot of haiku about them. Here are two examples (both translated by Susumu Takiguchi):

 

sanzen no haiku wo kemishi kaki futatsu   

 

having examined
three thousand haiku poems –
two persimmons                 

© Shiki (1897)       

kaki bakari narabeshi Suma no komise kara          

displaying
only persimmons --
small store in Suma         

 

© Shiki (1895)

I am really not familiar with this fruit, so I think I will pass this week and will not write a haiku here inspired on Persimmon.

 

This episode is open for your submissions at noon (CET) and will remain open until next Friday. Have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with Haiku Shuukan.

 

 

Haiku Shuukan #15, Opium

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Another week has gone by and it's already time for our next episode of Haiku Shuukan. This week our prompt is opium and it needs no other introduction I guess.

I just will give you a wonderful photo of Red Poppies, you know that opium comes from these wonderful flowers. So be inspired ...

Credits: Red Poppies, source for opium

This episode is now open for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday August 1st at noon (CET). Have fun!

Haiku Shuukan #14, Nocturnal

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Another week has gone. here in The Netherlands it feels like we are in the tropics, because it's tropical warm/hot around 30 derees Celsius and we are enjoying it, notwithstanding the heat that's very moist and it certainly will bring thunderstorms and rain later today. I am looking forwars to the upcoming evening and night when the heat will be gone.

This week's prompt is Nocturnal or nighttime ... this needs no further explanation I think so let's do some hakui-ing.

after this hot day
finally the cool of the night -
dreaming of love

© Chèvrefeuille

Credits: Nocturnal

Another one:

the day has gone
the night belongs to them -
red light district

© Chèvrefeuille

Credits: Red Light District

Two different haiku inspired on Nocturnal ... and now it's up to you ... be inspired and share. This episode is open for your submissions today at noon (CET) and will remain open until next Friday. Have fun!

Haiku Shuukan #13 Meander

Dear haijin, visitors and travelers,

This week's prompt is Meander and it's not an easy one I think, but ... well take up the challenge and write, compose a haiku inspired on this week's prompt. You don't have to use the actual word, but there must be a reference toward it.

I found a wonderful example of a haiku inspired on ''meander''. It's written by a friend of me, Shashi S of Haiku today. Here it is:

meandering in dark
forest of senses, souls walk
with karmic baggage

© Shashi S

And now it is up to you, my dear friends, Haijin, visitors and travelers to write a haiku inspired on ''meander''.

Credits: meander

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday at noon (CET).

Carpe Diem haiku Shuukan #12 ''Laughter''

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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Another week has gone by and it's time for a new episode of Haiku Shuukan our weekly haiku-meme. Since I started my first Carpe Diem haiku-blog Carpe Diem has become a place to share haiku with the world. As you maybe know ... in 2012 I started with a daily haiku-meme at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai and soon I created a few more weblogs for haiku. Haiku is my passion and I think it's really an art to compose haiku.

Next to Haiku Shuukan and Carpe Diem Haiku Kai I have created a weblog titled ''Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special'' were I challenge my visitors to write/compose haiku inspired by e.g. music or a picture. Or maybe you are inspired to write haiku based on a quote by a wellknown human e.g. Gandhi or Albert Einstein. That kind of challenges you can find at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special.

Credits: Laughter

This week's prompt for Haiku Shuukan is ''laughter'' and I think it will inspire you to write great haiku, senryu, tanka or kyoka. So have fun ...

playing with leaves
children's laughter resonates through the streets -
autumn is there

© Chèvrefeuille

This episode of Haiku Shuukan is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday at noon. Have fun, be inspired and share your laughter with us ...