For this week’s Carpe Diem Haiku Family …
The goal of this new episode is to write/compose a haiku, in the classical way, about someone who is famous and who you, maybe, admire.
As a haiku-poet Basho is my role-model and I am admiring his haiku. So I have chosen to write a haiku about him.
There are lots of famous people … so it’s a tall order to write this haiku … but let’s see what Chèvrefeulle wrote:
famous frogpond-poet
brought his passion into my mind –
the sound of water
© Chèvrefeuille
Of course! He’s written about Basho one of the most famous haiku poets of history:
old pond
frog jumps in
sound of water
© Basho
Dew on a spider’s web in the morning. Luc Viatour
walking down the trail
the buddhist monk stops to look
spiders weaving webs
© G.s.k. ’14
I’ve chosen Kobayashi Issa to inspire me:
Don’t worry, spiders,
I keep house
casually.
© Kobayashi Issa
Translated by Robert Hass
Bastet and Sekhmet's Library 
Your photo and haiku reminds me of a spider who has taken to weaving her web in the top of my side entrance door to my garage. I keep walking through it, as I can’t see it against the white door. Each morning, it is back again in its glory. Today, she must have given up and moved on.
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Lovely story … I thhink you’re probably right, she found a safer place to put her web up … thanks for sharing and commenting 🙂
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What a lovely haiku, Georgia, very zen.
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Thanks … I enjoyed looking for the spider web … this year with all the rain there’s enough laying around but I’d just done a web cleaning mission …
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Really love the Issa haiku you’ve chosen — I, too, keep house casually! And the classical haiku it inspired is absolutely marvelous. 😀
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I too usually … neat and all the spider webs usually in place 😉 (except yesterday took a couple down . I have a very high ceiling in our living room)
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No matter how many times I check our living room, there’s ALWAYS a spider web in one of two corners. ALWAYS. Oh well. Makes a person consider giving up! 😉
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Well, you see, it’s like this … you can take down the spider web, but if you don’t take down the spider it will continue to appear. It’s really just that. So either find the spider and expel it … or do something more permanent or it will be there again after just a few hours later 😉
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And I don’t have the heart to expel the spider! 😉
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I got mine onto the brush I was using to clean out the webs and put him outside. A daddy longlegs.
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We get tons and tons of those little white house spiders …! But I feel so guilty putting them outside — like I’m dumping them in the wilderness — !
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Ah … they’re not like putting a bird out of its cage. They eventually find a nice sheltered area under the eaves and probably are luckier because there are so many gnats this year they can fill up they’re larder!
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I know …
And my house is dusty but not *that* full of gnats — so they’d be better off 😉
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Yep … especially this year which has been so conducive to raising the gnat and mosquito populations!
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Well then — I will do my duty and help the environment by releasing these confused, wayward spiders!
If I can find them … [sigh]
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too funny I am just posting a spider web photo…
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Cool! Wish I’d known, would have asked your permission to use it 😉
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Sorry I was too late… or go back and edit your post and add it now 😉
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Awesome haiku Georgia i had already the idea that you would choose Issa … well done …. gorgeous photo too.
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Thannks … Issa is always an inspiration for me .. love his humor. Happy you enjoyed the haiku!
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Issa is for sure the haiku-poet with humor …
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🙂 yes … when I learnt about his tragic life I found that humor even more attractive, his was a sense of humor dispite the tragedy of life, which I feel is one of the most important gifts to have in order to remain in contact with our inner love and sense of balance.
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