Haiku Shuukan (Shuukan means week in Japanese) is a weekly haiku-meme to write haiku with a given prompt. Haiku is a reflection in words used as a painting to describe a moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown in water. ++ Haiku Shuukan is part of Carpe Diem Haiku Family ++
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Another week has gone by and it was a busy week. I was in the nightshift and we had to care for our grandsons. I am a bit tired so this new episode will not become a very long episode.
This week our prompt is Jacob's Ladder and it's not about the biblical story, but about that lovely little blue flower which you can see here-after. So I hope it will inspire you all to write haiku or senryu and share them with us all here at our Haiku Shuukan.
Jacob's Ladder
Well ... have fun! This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until next Friday June 27th at noon (CET) and I will post our new episode, kitten, around that time also.
Another week has gone by ... I had a busy week, but it's really my pleasure to introduce to you our new prompt for this week here at our Haiku Shuukan.
This week's prompt is Idyllic and here is the meaning of this word and some synonyms for it. Maybe it makes it easier to write haiku with it.
Idyllic means: extremely
beautiful and peaceful
Synonyms or
related words for this sense of idyllic
One of our contributors to our other weblog, Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, is Maniparna of Scattered Thoughts. As I was preparing this episode I ran into an "idyllic" haiku composed by her. Here it is:
romping
with dry leaves
the idyllic afternoon
poured slumber in me
Another example, this time a classical haiku by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) in which I think idyllic is in the deeper layers and this haiku by him is really a beauty in it's simplicity.
Now it is up to you my dear haijin, visitors and travelers ... let this post inspire you to write your "idyllic"-haiku and share it with us all here at Haiku Shuukan. This episode is OPEN for your submissions at noon (CET) and will stay open until next Friday June 20th at noon (CET). I will try to post our next weekly prompt, Jacob's Ladder, later on that week.
What a joy to see that Haiku Shuukan starts to become a little bit more known to our haiku-poets and friends all around the world. It's not an easy task for me to do this weekly meme next to my daily haiku meme, but I am loving it to much to let it go.
This week our prompt is "Harmonious" and I think that word doesn't further explanation, nevertheless I will challenge you all a little bit. Therefore I challenge you to write a haiku with the classical rules as there are:
a kigo or season word;
a keriji or cutting word (it's a word or transliteration mark which divides one scene from the other in the same haiku)
5-7-5 syllables;
it describes a moment as short as the sound of a frog jumping into the pond;
sometimes a deeper spiritual meaning;
first and last line are interchangeable;
it describes an experience and not how the poet feels about it
Well ... I hope you all will like this "extra" chellenge for this week's prompt.
This episode of Haiku Shuukan is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until June 13th at noon (CET). Have fun, be inspired and share your classical haiku with us all ...
Welcome at a new week of Haiku Shuukan. This week our prompt is Gothic and the first thing which came in mind was a musical-video by a Dutch group, Within Temptation. Here it is:
And to help you with this prompt I have here the meaning of Gothic:
Goth·ic (gŏth′ĭk)
adj.
1. a. Of or
relating to the Goths or their language.
b.
Germanic; Teutonic.
2. Of or
relating to the Middle Ages; medieval.
3. a. Of or
relating to an architectural style prevalent in western Europe from the 12th
through the 15th century and characterized by pointed arches, rib vaulting, and
a developing emphasis on verticality and the impression of height.
b. Of or
relating to an architectural style derived from medieval Gothic.
4. Of or
relating to painting, sculpture, or other art forms prevalent in northern
Europe from the 12th through the 15th century.
5. often
gothic Of or relating to a style of fiction that emphasizes the grotesque,
mysterious, and desolate.
Word
History: The combination Gothic romance represents a union of two of the major
influences in the development of European culture, the Roman Empire and the
Germanic tribes that invaded it. The Roman origins of romance must be sought in
the etymology of that word, but we can see clearly that Gothic is related to
the name Goth used for one of those invading Germanic tribes. The word Gothic,
first recorded in 1611 in a reference to the language of the Goths, was
extended in sense in several ways, meaning "Germanic,"
"medieval, not classical," "barbarous," and also an
architectural style that was not Greek or Roman. Horace Walpole applied the
word Gothic to his novel The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story (1765) in the
sense "medieval, not classical." From this novel filled with scenes
of terror and gloom in a medieval setting descended a literary genre still
popular today; from its subtitle descended the name for it.
reaching for Heavens Gothic cathedral of Gaudi - devilish shadows
Another week has gone and a new Haiku Shuukan episode is ahead of us. This week our prompt is Festival.
Everywhere on our little blue planet we have festivals and I think I don't have to tell you more about this prompt. In your country there will be also festivals and those festivals will be for sure an inspiration to compose haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka or haibun. Feel free to use any festival for your inspiration.
Here is a wonderful picture of a festival somewhere on our planet to help you to become inspired.
dragon-kites against a blue unclouded sky - Children's Day
(c) Chèvrefeuille
This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will stay open until May 30th at noon. I will post our new episode around that time. Next week our prompt will be: Gothic.
Have fun! Be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at Haiku Shuukan.
I am happy to prepare another Haiku Shuukan episode for you all. This week it's Exile and as I started preparing this episode the first thing which came in mind was the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt lead by Moses, but it also brought a pop group in mind with the name Exile and that pop group made a wonderful song ... here it is:
I remember that I was completely mad with this song ...
gone in exile without the one who kissed me all over - broken sunflower
Well ... now it is up to you my dear Haijin, visitors and travelers to write your own haiku inspired on our prompt for this week. So ... have fun!
This episode will be open for your submissions Friday May 16th at noon and will remain open until May 23rd at noon. Around that time, or maybe a little bit earlier, I will publish our new episode, Festival.
What a joy ... I have created our first Haiku Shuukan promptlist (including the first four) for the next 26 weeks. I think I have created a nice list of prompts and I hope you all will like the prompts which I have chosen.
You can find the Haiku Shuukan promptlist above in the menu or by clicking HERE.
