This blog is about haiku. A classical haiku counts 5-7-5 syllables. Chèvrefeuille (the pseudonym of Kristjaan Panneman, a Dutch haiku poet) however writes his haiku in the Kanshicho-style. In the Kanshicho-style the classical syllable count isn't used. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), a haiku poet, wrote his haiku in Kanshicho-style for several years, but he returned to the classical way of haiku writing. !!! Anonymous comments will be seen as SPAM !!!.
I haven't had time to participate the last weeks in Haiku Heights, but this week's prompt I couldn't let go. This week the prompt is WISH and that's of course something for this time of year.
Dragon's departure entering the year of the Snake - good wishes
Year of the Snake (2013)
Some background:
Sign of the Snake
According
to ancient Chinese wisdom, being born in the year of the Snake is a good omen;
it means your family will never starve. Whether this is intended metaphorically
-- because the snake is a great mediator and therefore good at business -- or
literally -- because a Snake would sacrifice his many possessions to pay for
food -- is often debated. In either case, it is clear that a Snake is
considered a good provider as a result of his wisdom. This wisdom, however, can
on occasion become cunning trickery, as a Snake is known to plot to get exactly
what he wants. The Snake is also profoundly private, and as such, as known as a
poor communicator -- possessive of both his words and his emotions.
During lack of time I wasn't able to publish our new Tackle It Tuesday earlier this week. So this Tackle It Tuesday will stay on until Tuesday January 1st 2013 11.59 AM (CET).
In this month of Holidays I am glad to publish this episode on 'Christmastime'. Christmas a wonderful feast in which we remember the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ and Peace all over the world.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Also in this time of year we have snow, frost, but also warm summerdays depending from the place you're living. On my Carpe Diem weblog we have a prompt on Year Markets for today. All over the world these Markets are organized to give you a Christmas feeling. On these markets you can buy Christmas decorations, food, sweets and so on. Wandering over these markets accompanied by Christmas Carols it's really a joy and it brings me already the Christmas feeling and of course decorating the Christmas tree (as you can see above).
Every year again ... we are singing carols about peace on earth ... and every year again ... Peace all over the world isn't becoming true. We have to dream on ... maybe once ... Peace on earth will be ...
Cheers!
I hope you all have a wonderful Christmastime and a wonderful New Year.
in a stable our Lord Jesus Christ was born - still no Peace wandering over the fair in touch with the Christmas thought - Silent Night on New Year's Day the wind still the same as last year
Have fun, dear friends, be inspired and share your haiku on Christmastime with Tackle It Tuesday. If you like writing and composing haiku? Well .... visit my Carpe Diem weblog and share your haiku on the given prompt. It's really fun to visit Carpe Diem's daily haiku meme. Feel free and welcome to visit and share.
Some time ago I wrote a Carpe Diem Preview on a new creative form of writing haiku, the troiku. This post is another try on this new creative way of writing haiku. I love the way how this new form asks me to think about writing haiku. It's, in my opinion, a great way of writing haiku and I enjoyed writing this post very much.
The 'sleigh' is inspired on a haiku by Issa (a classic haiku master) and it was a Carpe Diem Special a few days ago.
pink flowers bloom
between green dewy leaves
a double peony
(sleigh):
pink flowers bloom
between green dewy leaves
a double peony
(horse 1)
pink flowers
as far as man can see -
purple sea
(horse 2)
between green dewy leaves
hides a little green frog
for the blue heron
(horse 3)
a double peony
in full bloom in my garden -
a dawning sun
This greeting is the one I always use on my daily haiku meme Carpe Diem and today I will use it here for our new Tackle It Tuesday. Why? Well ... in our next month of Carpe Diem (December 2012) I have chosen for classical Japanese 'kigo' or seasonwords for prompts. Next month the prompts are all about winter, see for yourself here , so for this weeks 'Tackle' I have chosen for a classical kigo or seasonword of Autumn.
Our 'Tackle' prompt is moonlight In classical Japan they think the moon of Autumn is most beautiful. In that ... I follow them ... I think also that the Autumn moon is the most beautiful. But ... also in my region of the world (Europe) the Winter moon is beautiful too.
So the goal for this episode of Tackle It Tuesday is to write a haiku on moonlight. Enjoy the fun and be creative. And ... of course I hope you will share your creativity here on Tackle It Tuesday.
My take on Moonlight:
reflecting sunlight our natural satellite - dark of it's own dark of it's own the moon catches beams of sunlight sharing them with us sharing them with us her wonderful smile autumn moonlight
Hope to see a lot of haiku on moonlight. Be inspired and share your creativity.
Just a little treat ... Moonlight Serenade ....
This Tackle It Tuesday will stay on 'till December 10th 11.59 AM (CET). So you have two weeks to share your haiku ... Tackle It Tuesday will be from now on a bi-weekly haiku meme.
Today I was very early awake. After a cup of coffee I went outside and saw a wonderful sunrise. The clouds looked like fingers and were pink colored, it looked just like they sprouted from the horizon. So I had to write a haiku about it.
early sunrise pink cloud fingers sprouting at the horizon
november ending while the first snow falls - a last rose blooms departing Autumn the end of this year coming nearer longing for Spring a new hope rises departing of this years autumn lighting a candle
Isn''t it a wonderful flower? The Peony ... so fragile and colorful, but it can also be a big flower when the Peony is a ''double one".
I had to write another haiku inspired on this haiku by Issa:
the peony falls spilling out yesterday''s rain
This is my other haiku on peony:
pink flowers bloom between green dewy leaves a double peony
Tackle It Tuesday starts today with a new 'rule'. Every episode will stay on for two weeks. Why? Because of lack of time, I have my daily Carpe Diem haiku meme and for now that's my main meme. So this episode of Tackle It Tuesday will stay on 'till Monday November 26th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post the new episode of Tackle It Tuesday that day around 10.00 PM (CET). Hope you all understand this.
Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,
Another week has passed away ... our last Tackle It Tuesday prompt was 'Wuthering Heights' and it wasn't a great success, but ... well it wasn't an easy prompt. So for this week I have chosen Chrysanthemum a wonderful Autumn (and Winter) 'kigo' or seasonword. It's really a nice flower for this time of year.
Last Sunday I was visiting my parents in law in Amsterdam. My father in law had a wonderful basket full of Chrysanthemum in his garden. They were wonderful colored, yellow, orange, purple and white. A nice Autumn bouquet. I was a bit sad after our visit, because I hadn't my camera with me. If I had ... than I could have shown you this wonderful Chrysanthemum basket. So now I will use another photo for this post.
Chrysanthemums bouquet
so many colors the backyard looks like a rainbow Chrysanthemums in bloom in the garden of my parents in law Chrysanthemums bloom a sea of colors as far as you can see blooming Chrysanthemums
Well ... I hope these haiku inspire you, my dear haijin, visitors and travelers, to be creative and write your own haiku. Please share your creativity with Tackle It Tuesday.
This Tackle It Tuesday episode will be staying on 'till November 19th 11.59 PM (CET).
Basho is one of my heroes, next to e.g. Gandhi. Why is Basho my hero? I am a haiku poet and Basho was a haiku master which I adore. I even have a weblog about him. Basho is my inspiration for writing haiku.
Basho's 'Small Path to the Deep North'
Today Carpe Diem has hero for prompt and I love to try to write a or a few haiku about Basho.
small ways leading to Enlightenment just like Basho croaking frogs Basho's old pond haiku revisited
Old Pond Frog Jumps In Sound of Water
the sound of water resonates through my garden I feel like Basho
Basho's original hand written haiku (and haiga) 'frog pond'
Isn't it a lovely triplet of haiku inspired on Carpe Diem's 'hero'? My hero ... Matsuo Basho (1644-1694).
Matsuo Basho, my hero
Well ... this was my take on 'hero'. Who is your hero?
I had to write a few new haiku on our prompt for today 'yellow'. I have already read wonderfully composed posts ... so I have to come up with a few good ones (smiles).
one sunny day my black thoughts turning yellow
sunflower field reaches 'till the horizon what a joyful sight
'look up there grandpa' my grandson points to the sky - yellow dragon kite
This 'Tackle It Tuesday' will stay on for another week. I haven't had time to write a new episode because of lack of time. So this episode will stay on 'till November 14th.
Another week gone into oblivion and a new week has just begun. Time to release a new episode of Tackle It Tuesday.
This week I saw a TV show about buying a house in the Yorkshire region of Great Brittain. This region is known by e.g. wonderful landscapes, rugged heights and of course the Bronte sisters. The Bronte sisters were great English authors and I think you all know the novel written by Emily Bronte "Wuthering Heights".
A short overview:
In 1801, Mr. Lockwood, a rich man from the south of England, rents Thrushcross Grange in the north of England for peace and recuperation. Soon after his arrival, he visits his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, who lives in the remote moorland farmhouse called "Wuthering Heights." He finds the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights to be a rather strange group: Mr. Heathcliff appears a gentleman but his mannerisms suggest otherwise; the reserved mistress of the house is in her mid-teens; and a young man appears to be one of the family, although he dresses and talks like a servant.
Being snowed in, Mr. Lockwood stays the night and is shown to an unused chamber, where he finds books and graffiti from a former inhabitant of the farmhouse named Catherine. When he falls asleep, he has a nightmare in which he sees Catherine as a ghost trying to enter through the window. Heathcliff rushes to the room after hearing him yelling in fear. He believes Mr. Lockwood is telling the truth, and inspects the window, opening it in a futile attempt to let Catherine's spirit in from the cold. After nothing eventuates, Heathcliff shows Mr. Lockwood to his own bedroom, and returns to keep guard at the window.
As soon as the sun rises, Mr. Lockwood is escorted back to Thrushcross Grange by Heathcliff. There, he asks his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to tell him the story of the family from the Heights.
Maybe you remember the song written by Kate Bush and sung by her. It was inspired on this great novel by Emily Bronte.
Awesome ... I loved this song (as I once did love all of the music by Kate Bush). I hope you enjoyed the music video and I hope of course that you are inspired to write a haiku (classical or non-classical) on this prompt.
Here is mine:
wuthering heights patches of fog like ghosts above the heath
patches of fog crawling up and down the hills wuthering heights
Well enjoy the fun ... be inspired ... and share your haiku with Tackle It Tuesday. Do you like writing haiku? And you would like to do that every day? Visit my daily haiku meme at: Carpe Diem
Time flies ... another week has gone. I heard this was a tough week for several American states because of the big storm 'Sandy'. How come that this kind of storms have such lovely, soft and sweet names as 'Sandy'?
I didn't really follow the news on this big storm, but I heard enough about it to understand that nature (our HH prompt for today) is a very powerful force on our little blue planet Earth.
nature's force hits the East American Coast uprooted trees
how strong the power of Mother Earths energy superstorm Sandy
strong human race will rebuild their environment a new experience
around the mansion daisies standing strong together after the storm
Well ... next week another prompt. For now I wish the people who were in the midst of this superstorm a lot of health, power and offer my prayers to them who have lost a loved one or have had a lot of damage.
Today the prompt for Carpe Diem is Rainbow (reprise) and it's the start of a whole week prompts on the rainbow and the colors of the rainbow. But what is a rainbow?
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines on to droplets of moisture in the Earth\’s atmosphere. It takes the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outer part of the arc and violet on the inner section. Rainbows can be observed whenever there are water drops in the air and sunlight shining from behind at a low altitude angle.
rainbow bridge bridges the highway to heaven knocking on heaven's door
'can I walk that bridge?' the little child points to the rainbow ah! such an imagination
Cool! Nice imagery I think. Well ... I loved writing this one on rainbow. See you next time.
Today is Halloween and Poets United's Wonder Wednesday has 'wicked' for prompt. A delicious prompt for Halloween I think. Wicked I know it's a musical. I haven't seen this musical, but what I have heard about it is great. So maybe ... I will go to see it.
'Wicked' ... hm ... witches, kobolds, wizards, imps all creatures of Halloween so it must be easy to write a post for this weeks Wonder Wednesday ... Well I am a haiku poet so this post will contain haiku. Let's go do some haiku composing on 'wicked'.
the wicked witch giggles while riding her broomstick skyclad dancing in the light of Hunter's Moon on the moonlit heath
pumpkin head sways above the foggy heath the cry of an owl 'trick or treat' a bunch of fairytale creatures at my front door
A wonderful set of haiku if I may say that (how immodest), but I enjoyed writing this set on wicked. Thank you Poetss United for hosting this Wonder Wednesday.
Today we have the last Special Prompt for Carpe Diem's October month. This month I shared haiku by Basho and the one for today is:
in one house prostitutes lie down to sleep bush clover and the moon
Basho wrote this when he was at an Inn along his Narrow Road to the Deep North. And a pair of nuns asked him and his companion Sora if they may travel with them for a while. Basho refushed that and wrote this haiku afterwards.
It's a very delicate theme he uses, but ... prostitution is of all times heh.
In Japan prostitution is forbidden, but the government looks the other way and tolerates it. To write another haiku inspired at the one by Basho and in the same spirit as Basho will not be easy.
late night walk hookers behind windows - Hunter's Moon
Hm ... I love this scenery. Is it in Basho's Spirit?
Another one:
behind the window in the Red Light district love for sale
Not bad either. Can I write another one? I will try ... maybe a classical one ... counted ...
love for money sailors drunken as hell giggling prostitutes
Not a totally counted verse, missing a few syllables, but I think this one is in the same spirit as the one by Basho.
Well ... so far our Carpe Diem Special Prompts by Basho. Next month the Special Prompts are haiku written by Kobayashi Issa.
This week's prompt is Witch, and I was the one who proposed this one, so have to come up with a good one (smiles). It's almost Halloween, so witches, ghosts, wizards, kobolds and other magical and mystical creatures are sneaking around.
all souls night witches sneaking around searching for lost souls
"trick or treat!" a bunch of goblins on the frontyard skyclad witches adoring and worshipping the blue moon the blue moon reflects in the witches soup between frog heads
This was my contribution to HH Witch for this week. See you next week ....
romantic night burning candles, red wine and my love - the sound of rain
What a feast! Laughing Autumn ... well ... I love Autumn in all of it's facets. Maybe ... this is a continuation of the haiku I gave in our new Carpe Diem episode. It's up to you ... I enjoyed writing these haiku ... It gave me a real Autumn feeling.
