Carpe Diem Haiku, Chiyo-Ni ''in an unknown sky''

autumn's bright moon

however far I walked, still afar off

in an unknown sky

Intriguing haiku with beautiful concept - and last line, presented as inspiration. Following is my attempt.

summer thunderstorm
sound of the sky on the rooftop
as for the moon, long gone

Carpe Diem Haiku - Basho Revisited

departing autumn

a clam

torn from its shell

departing autumn

Basho

The task now, with this haiku, is to attempt to render its beauty  in a new version, influenced and inspired by Basho's original.

uluru rising

noble peoples' land torn

never to return

Carpe Diem Haiku - Creation by Gillena Cox

A topic so vast can only be dealt with by focusing on the tiniest details...

it disturbs me-

if I step on an acorn

I break an entire future forest

Carpe Diem Haiku - Hot Springs

her beauty 

cleanses 

the water

Visual from an old 1904 Japanese postcard.

Carpe Diem Haiku - Creek

she cups hands in creek

fleck of gold glints in her palms

my water tastes of love

Carpe Diem Haiku Ghost Writer, Kuheli of Kajori

A wonderful post by Kuheli on Chiyo-ni and nature. I think I will stay on her saree theme for this one. I bought a light blue silk saree for someone recently, and though she hasn't worn it yet I can already imagine how wonderful she will look in it. When I worked in Bahrain, many of my colleagues wore a saree, always colourful, they add so much to the day.

at the waterfall

refreshing splashes of water

nature patterns her saree 

each memory

of Madhavi and Dr Raj

sunshine on pine trees

notes of the sitar

float into green hills

add taste to tea leaves

Namaskar, Kuheli

Carpe Diem Haiku, Canyon

voices voices bounce bounce back back

echoes from the canyon

breathe breathe breathe breathe breathe breathe

Carpe Diem Haiku - Horizon

is there ever

only one 

horizon

the further I walk

the more the horizon plays

will it ever let me win

the gypsy knows

the horizon exists

only in the mind

Carpe Diem Haiku - Dawn

dawn

a time of journey for some

-airplane tail lights

Carpe Diem Special Haiku, BrunuhVille's ²nd "Fable"

Think of a story, words like raindrops as you walk along the seashore creating the imagery needed for the scene, the wind blowing away the ideas that need blowing away, the sea spreading up the beach like a page needing to be written, and words you write in the sand, that are snatched by the ocean, gifting you in return what you need to keep warm and write, and so, you take the stories home with you.

dry deadwood on a beach

makes a warm glow in the fireplace

trees flicker on walls

Carpe Diem Haiku's "Analyze That Haiku"

An interesting new feature at the Carpe Diem Haiku website, to analyse a given haiku. As Chevrefeuille, who runs the site, says:

"It is said that haiku is not easy to compose, but is even more difficult to read. If you ask a reader to tell you what they think you experienced while writing a haiku, they will almost certainly tell you another story than you had in mind when composing your haiku."


The following haiku has accordingly been offered for analysis:

in the old barn

behind the hay bales

a secret meeting

I often feel the background, or location tells the story. In this haiku, the old barn is the prime story, not the secret. It appears in the first line for a start, suggesting the events in this haiku is but one of the things that happens here. And as in many haiku we have the juxtaposition, the polar opposites so to speak, the old barn and the young meeting - youth is suggested by the secrecy of the meeting, and the almost masculine bales of hay - the result of hard, virile labour, surely a feminine fantasy. But hay is also the future, the proof and result of hard work and toil, fodder for animals. This fodder, and the illicit meeting, are the 'renewal,' the next year, next generation and marriage vows to come - but again its the location. The meeting does not take place in an old church but in an old barn. This is no sacrifice at the altar, yet a barn remains symbolic of much, including the birth place of Jesus, as well as of childhood and nature, or the cultivation of germinated nature. As such it is almost a holy setting, and provides shelter for generations to come, who may also go through the ritual here.

As such the barn plays a role in a line, before church and new home, and is appropriately more fragile and more quick to burn than the other two, physically and metaphorically. And it is from the large doorway that a couple will emerge from childhood into adulthood.

A perfect place for a secret meeting - who would be able to resist the temptation of a seductive few moments cushioned in the hay!

she awaits..
picture from http://www.pinterest.com/debra723/sexy-cowgirl-barn-boudoir/

Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge, Suzanne's "reflecting the sky"

One particularly nice aspect of the Carpe Diem Haiku Kai website is the communal aspect - here with have one, with the Tan Renga, with one participant, one of the gang's haiku used as a Tan Renga with 2 more lines added. The haiku is by Suzanne, http://suzannemillerwritings.wordpress.com/, one of my favourite writers, with this blog's two lines added.

reflecting the sky

rainwater in a fallen leaf

-embodied light

the gardener rakes the grass

a thousand tiny mirrors 

http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.fi/

Carpe Diem Haiku - Oness

my view

stretching for miles from my skin

where do I end and you begin?

...think about it