Carpe Diem Haiku Special – July 28, 2016

 

Cypress trees

I’ve been off again and although the hotel advertised  wi-fi it wasn’t at all efficient!  Anyway, I’m back and I will try to make up for my absence!

I have Carpe Diem Haiku Kai as my opening page on my browser and so I was able to immediately see this lovely prompt dedicated to the renowned haiku poet and anthologist of women’s haiku Patricia Donegan.  Here are the two haiku that Chèvrefeuille used for the post:

As rain drops diminish
I hear the tapping
of the monk’s wooden bell.

Tonight
the cypress tree & I
lean into the wind.

© Patricia Donegan

As you know the purpose of the Carpe Diem Haiku Special is to fall into the spirit of the poet and their poetry and try to write in the same spirit as the author.  Here is my attempt:

under rain and wind
bending along the trail
the tree and the monk

© Gsk ’16

 

 

Morning Haiku and Waka – July 22, 2016

in deep waters
cold and angst of drowning
at day break

© Gsk ’16

this summer dawn
awaiting the breaking storm
ducks shelter

© Gsk ’16

Daily Haiku – July 20, 2016

storming sunset
rolling fields of grain
thrash in the wind

© Gsk ’16

Daily Haiku and Waka – July 18, 2016

sweetness
nestling in the spring grass
tiny strawberries

© Gsk ’16

Morning Haiku and Waka – July 16, 2016

passing reflection
as the sun rises at dawn
a last adieu

© Gsk ’16

Carpe Diem Special – Mandarin Duck by Buson – July 14

For today’s Carpe Diem Special a haiku by Yosa Buson:

mandarin duck –
rain falls silently
from an oak

© Yosa Buson (1716-1783)

Mallards on Lake Mattis – Champagne, Illinois

mallard ducks –
splashing water drops
in the grass

Gsk ’16

In the Park – Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille – July 13, 2016

ducks mating in spring
in this American park
just like being home

© Gsk ’16

Carpe Diem Special – Richard Wright – July 4, 2016

The task for Carpe Diem Special is not only to read a poem by a haiku author, but to try “to write a new haiku (or tanka) in the same tone, sense and spirit as the given one”.  Today we revisit Richard Wright.

Whitecaps on the bay:

A broken signboard banging
In the April wind.

 

© Richard Wright

Illinois sunrise
rain and sunbeams fall
in late May

© Gsk ’16

Oak – Haiku – July 4, 2016

night visions
passing through the wooden door
of my oaken bed

© Gsk ’16

Carpe Diem #989 Oak

Birch – Haiku – July 4 2016

a courtyard a birch
change and stability
from spring to winter

© Gsk ’16

Carpe Diem 988 Birch