Haiku Shuukan #25, Youngsters

Dear haijin, visitors and travelers,

This week there is a lot to do around Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, our daily haiku-meme. I am busy to "renovate" that weblog together with the contributors there. It's exciting to make plans for CDHK and doing it together with the contributors is just a joy.

This week's prompt for Haiku Shuukan is Youngsters .... and I think I only will give the prompt and a haiku written by myself for your inspiration.

cherry blossoms bloom,
under an avalanche of pinkish flowers
their first kiss

© Chèvrefeuille

Credits: Cherry Blossoms at Newark

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday October 17th at noon (CET). Have fun!

Haiku Shuukan #24, Xenolith

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Our prompt for today, Xenolith, will not be an easy one. I had to search on the Internet to find something about this prompt. And I found the following about Xenolith at Wikipedia.

A xenolith (Ancient Greek:  “foreign rock”) is a rock fragment which becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and hardening. In geology, the term xenolith is almost exclusively used to describe inclusions in igneous rock during magma emplacement and eruption. Xenoliths may be engulfed along the margins of a magma chamber, torn loose from the walls of an erupting lava conduit or explosive diatreme or picked up along the base of a flowing lava on Earth's surface. A xenocryst is an individual foreign crystal included within an igneous body. Examples of xenocrysts are quartz crystals in a silica-deficient lava and diamonds within kimberlite diatremes.

Although the term xenolith is most commonly associated with igneous inclusions, a broad definition could include rock fragments which have become encased in sedimentary rock. Xenoliths are sometimes found in recovered meteorites.

Credits: Xenolith

To be considered a true xenolith, the included rock must be identifiably different from the rock in which it is enveloped; an included rock of similar type is called an autolith or a cognate inclusion.

Xenoliths and xenocrysts provide important information about the composition of the otherwise inaccessible mantle. Basalts, kimberlites, lamproites and lamprophyres, which have their source in the upper mantle, often contain fragments and crystals assumed to be a part of the originating mantle mineralogy. Xenoliths of dunite, peridotite and spinel lherzolite in basaltic lava flows are one example. Kimberlites contain, in addition to diamond xenocrysts, fragments of lherzolites of varying composition. The aluminium-bearing minerals of these fragments provide clues to the depth of origin. Calcic plagioclase is stable to 25 km depth. Between 25 km and about 60 km, spinel is the stable aluminium phase. At depths greater than about 60 km, dense garnet becomes the aluminium-bearing mineral. Some kimberlites contain xenoliths of eclogite, which is considered to be the high-pressure metamorphic product of oceanic basaltic crust, as it descends into the mantle along subduction zones (Blatt, 1996).

I hope you can write/compose a haiku with this prompt ... I couldn't ....

This episode is open for your submissions today at noon (CET) and will remain open until next Friday 
October 10th at noon (CET). Have fun ... be inspired and share ... Our next week's prompt will be "Youngsters".

Haiku Shuukan #23 Wasabi

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Another week has gone by and it's time for a new weekly prompt here at Haiku Shuukan. This week our prompt is Wasabi.

Wasabi (Wasabia japonica or Eutrema japonica), is a member of the Brassicaceae family, which includes cabbages, horseradish, and mustard. It is also called Japanese horseradish, although horseradish is a different plant (which is often used as a substitute for wasabi). Its stem is used as a condiment and has an extremely strong flavor. Its hotness is more akin to that of a hot mustard than that of the capsaicin in a chili pepper, producing vapors that stimulate the nasal passages more than the tongue. The plant grows naturally along stream beds in mountain river valleys in Japan. The two main cultivars in the marketplace are W. japonica 'Daruma' and 'Mazuma', but there are many others.

Credits: Wasabi (Dutch website)

I am not really familiar with this plant and I think that there will be no haiku about it. ... As I was on twitter however, I ran into a 'twaiku' (haiku on twitter) which was about Wasabi and I love to share it here.

Small, spicy, and green,
I want to eat all of them,
But they burn my tongue.

© Emily Suderman

And now it's up to you. This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday October 3rd at noon (CET). Have fun!

haiku Shuukan #22, Violin

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I am a bit late with posting this post, but there were other things which were a little bit more important. It's a joy to bring you our new prompt for Haiku Shuukan, Violin, so here it is ... Our new prompt is

VIOLIN

and this is my haiku:

the sound of violins
resonates through the summer night -
Tchaikovsky comes to life

© Chèvrefeuille

The violin player on this video is a Dutch woman named Janine Jansen, she plays the violin like a goddess.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday September 26th at noon (CET). I will (try to) post our next episode, Wasabi, around that time too. For now ... have fun, be inspired and share your haiku about violin with us all.

Haiku Shuukan #21, Universe

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

I have a busy today. I am creating a few episodes of our daily haiku meme Carpe Diem Haiku Kai and another new post here at Haiku Shuukan our weekly haiku meme. I had what time left, so I could do more than one posts today.

This week our prompt here at Haiku Shuukan is Universe that great space around us and the universe needs no further explanation so here is my haiku for this week's episode:

Orion's Belt

Orion's Belt

brighter than ever
in a moonless night

in a moonless night
wandering over the heath -
the Milky Way

the Milky Way
a path of thousand stars -
like a river

© Chèvrefeuille

It's really beautiful to see Orion's Belt, earlier this day, it was already dawning I saw Orion's Belt arise above the horizon ... gorgeous and breathtaking ...

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday September 19th at noon (CET). I will (try to) post our next episode, Violin, around that time. For now! Have fun!

Haiku Shuukan #20, Tears

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Another week has gone by, it was a wonderful week, but also a very busy week, but ... well being busy is part of my life. I never will spill a tear about it and that brings me to our new prompt of this week, tears. As you maybe know we are reading "Sand and Foam" by Khalil Gibran at our daily haiku meme at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai and this week I love to share also a 'verse' by Khalil Gibran on 'tears'.

[...] "There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea". [...]

A nice and very spiritual 'verse' I think and it is here also for your inspiration and mine. I have written the following haiku on 'tears', a year ago:

with tears in my eyes

I see how the wind is ruining
fragile beauty

fragile beauty
a gust of wind tears apart
Cherry Blossoms

© Chèvrefeuille (2013)

Credits: tears

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday September 5th at noon (CET). For now ... have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at our Haiku Shuukan.

Our next episode will be universe.

Haiku Shuukan #19, Sleepless

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

A new week has started for Haiku Shuukan and it's time for a new prompt. Our prompt for this week is sleepless and it needs no further explanation I think. So this week I will (try to) keep it short.
Haiku Shuukan is a steady haiku-member of the Carpe Diem Haiku Family and it gives me the same joy as all my other weblogs, there is just a little tiny thing ... I would love to see it grow. So invite other haiku-poets to visit Haiku Shuukan and maybe participate in it. Of course I know that there are several other weblogs about haiku ... but it would be fun to see more participants at Haiku Shuukan.

OK ... back to our prompt for this week SLEEPLESS ... write a haiku inspired on this prompt and share it with us all. I have found a picture to go along with this episode and maybe it will help you to become inspired.

Credits: Sleepless Nights

Well ... have fun, be inspired and share your haiku inspired on sleepless with us all here at Haiku Shuukan.

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday August 29th at noon (CET).