Carpe Diem haiku Kai: Sunday Time Challenge #2: rainbow
weeding the garden
foreboding afternoon sky
graced with a rainbow
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misstep in puddle
a rainbow swirls and clings
to my new boots
Sunday morning
my grandchild ask me to sew
a rainbow tie
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quiet evening
through bare branches
a pale rainbow
early evening
three fish swim though
rainbow on my floor
Hopefully this is the return of regular postings at Carpe Diem. Playing catch up since I was not aware Kristjaan was posting again.
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Carpe Diem Haiku Kai #1857: a meditation.
stormy weather
with the dawn a fallen oak
cry of a new grandchild
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Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Weekend Meditation #100: waves of love
sleepless night
dark shadows mock the moon
shivering with cold
suddenly warm arms reach out
waves of love enfolding me
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Carpe Diem Haiku Kai #1856: Restarting?
smoldering rubble
all the crazies
spread conspiracies
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai #1358 Clouds
down the beach
at the height of winter waves
mist clouds © Jane Reichhold
summer sands carried back to sea
my heart shrinks with the beach © Dolores Fegan
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Celebrates Its 9th Anniversary: #1850 dried grass
tabi ni yande yume wa kareno wo kake meguru
falling sick on a journey
my dream goes wandering
over a field of dried grass
© Basho (Tr. Chèvrefeuille)
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Pandemic lockdown
hospice patients pass
without witness
Autumn walk
decapitated mushrooms
line the path
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Unending rain
Black spot and root rot
Embrace the garden
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Autumn cold
my thoughts swimming
in lemon tea
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Changing seasons
another leave released
to the wind
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autumn tears
an oak tree drowns
in a mushroom cap
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Pandemic scare
my dreams mired
in stagnant pool
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Autumn prayers
a monarch Butterfly lands
on my outstretched hand
Carpe Diem #1808 LOVE acrostic challenge
Dodoitsu is a form of Japanese poetry developed towards the end of the Edo Period. Often concerning love or work, and usually comical, Dodoitsu poems consist of four lines with the syllabic structure 7-7-7-5 and no rhyme or metre.
An example of a Dodoitsu:
One Night
one night I searched for a star
what I found was a full moon
now my every day is
full of shooting stars
© Ben Gieske (2012)
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Lavender scented candles
Oboe quietly trilling
Valentines waiting for exchange
Eating chocolate
Late night stroll, holding hands
Ordinary stars shine bright
Venus perched above our house
Enchanted evening
Happily waiting for you
Opening arms and heart wide
Me and you for an evening
Eternal love shade by two
Carpe Diem #1806 Unconditional Love
Carpe Diem #1804 New Beginnings … candlelight
Candlelight -Fusion-ku
a new year
rising from wild seas
a few stars
filling
the glass with candlelight
champagne
© Jane Reichhold (1937-2016)
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beyond wild seas
champagne colored stars rising
filling the new year
beyond wild seas
searching for your vessel
disquieted heart
champagne colored stars rising
shinning upon the waves
bringing light and hope
filling the new year
with songs and prayers of joy
as you approach
\Carpe Diem #1802 New Beginnings … without beginning
Without Beginning -ēnso
day after day
waves break upon the rock
as first light spreads
single enos
found in the empty circle
all I didn’t know
before you nothing
your love all encompassing
forever one
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without a clue
naked and mysterious
enos paining
meanings ebb and flow
in the beholder’s eyes
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #112 Transformation … sketching from life (Shiki’s Shasei technique)
kaboocha yori nasu muzukashiki shasei kana
Sketching from life —
\eggplants are harder to do
than pumpkins. © Masaoka Shiki (Tr. Burton Watson)
in the hot afternoon sun
fruits wither before capturing
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