Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2016 (13) like a chain of iron

Dear friends,

Ah ... the Summer Retreat of Carpe Diem ... isn't it great? But ... it's not easy to come up with a new haiku every day. As you know I am hosting Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, a daily haiku meme, and Carpe Diem has my first attention and than this weblog, my own personal weblog, follows.
A few minutes ago I created an all new post at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai ... and for  my own weblog I have to conquer a lack of inspiration therefore I have chosen to share a haiku from my archives, sorry.

Wisteria

The haiku I have chosen from my archives has to do with Wisteria (in Dutch "Blauwe Regen" or "Blue Rain") a most beautiful and very inspiring flowering plant.

like a chain of iron
the Wisteria climbs against the wall
reaching for the sky

© Chèvrefeuille

Awesome ...

Feel free to participate in Carpe Diem's Summer Retreat 2016 ... you are so welcome to visit us and become part of this "adventure".

See you tomorrow 

Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2016 (12) blooming ice-flowers

Dear friends,

Far back in time, around 2005, I wrote my first English haiku:

a lonely flower
my companion
for one night

© Chèvrefeuille

Maybe you know this haiku or maybe you have read it elsewhere, but I have great and nice memories to this first English haiku ever written by me. It was published several times and it also was translated in several other languages.

For this new submission for the Carpe Diem Summer Retreat I have written a new one. That new haiku I will share hereafter, but it brought that first English haiku in mind, so I just had to share that haiku here with you also.

Ice-flowers

in a tiny corner
of the mansion's backyard
blooming ice flowers

© Chèvrefeuille

I hope you did like the read. See you tomorrow.

If you also want to participate in Carpe Diem's Summer Retreat 2016, "One With Nature", writing every day a haiku for 30 days? Than visit Carpe Diem Summer Retreat.

Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2016 (11) whispering leaves

 Dear friends,

The Summer Retreat at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai looks awesome and a great success. It's really a joy to see how "one with nature", the theme of the Summer Retreat, in so many ways is used. Awesome.

listen, just listen
summer rain falls gently
on poplar leaves

© Chèvrefeuille

The Poplar's leaves are always trembling even when there is almost no wind at all. It is seen as the messenger of the gods. As the winds plays with the leaves of the Poplar they tremble and than the gods are talking to us.

"the voice of the gods"

whispering leaves
listen closely - the voice of the gods
deep silence

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... this was my contribution for today ... see you tomorrow.

Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2016 (10) gurgling valley stream

Dear freinds,

During circumstances I have chosen to share a haiku from my archives for the Summer Retreat of Carpe Diem. I think this haiku fits the theme "One With Nature".

gurgling valley stream
can't resist your lovely song -
shadow of a Carp

© Chèvrefeuille

See you tomorrow

Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2016 (9) dreaming of her

Dear friends,

Awesome ... don't you think so too? This Summer Retreat is great, but also very challenging. As the host of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai I write almost every day a new haiku, but to write 30 days on a roll at the Summer Retreat, isn't easy ... but of course I set up the challenge, so I have to pick up the challenge myself too. So her it goes, my ninth haiku for the Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2016 "one with nature".

lying on the beach
I hear the whispering surf
while I dream of her

© Chèvrefeuille

A wonderful experience, once in a lifetime ... making love on the beach ...

See you next time.

Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2016 (8) sparkling sunlight

Dear friends,

The Summer Retreat of Carpe Diem goes very well and I think it isn't easy to create a haiku every day, but of course someone tries ... someone like me:

sparkling sunlight
dances on the waves -
a seagull cries

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... see you tomorrow.

Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2016 (7) an old boat

Dear friends,

It's almost one week on this Carpe Diem Summer Retreat and it looks like it will become a success. There are several submissions and its a very steady group of participants. So here it is my seventh haiku for this Summer Retreat:

an old boat
has become one with nature
in the backyard 

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... I think this one is clearly "one with nature" (smiles).

See you tomorrow.

Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2016 (6) a river breeze (Matsuo Basho)

Dear friends,

As you (maybe) know I am participating in the Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2016, themed "one with nature" and I love it. However it isn't easy to create every day a new haiku for the Summer Retreat and today I am making it myself easy. By the way it's to hot her in The Netherlands to sit a while behind the PC. It's around 35 degrees Celsius, finally summer, but this heat ... well I will not complain, because until last weekend the Dutch summer was a disaster with a lot of rain and low temperatures.

As I said ... I have made it myself a little easy today. I love to share a haiku by my sensei, Matsuo Basho, and a haiku written by me inspired on that one by Basho.

Here is the haiku by Basho:

kawa kaze ya   usu gaki ki taru   yu suzumi

a river breeze
the one wearing a light persimmon robe
enjoying the coolness

© Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)

Basho wrote a preface to this haiku: "Enjoying the cool breeze on the bank of Shijo, an observance is practiced from the beginning to the middle of June. A special floor is set up right on the river, and people enjoy drinking and eating all night. Women tie their sashes correctly tight, and men wear their formal long coats. I see even the apprentices of a cooper and the blacksmith. They seem to have too much leisure time, singing and making noise. This is probably a scene which can only be seen in the capital (Edo, now called Tokyo)".

Summer in Japan

And here is my response inspired on that beauty by Basho:

observing the crowd
having fun on the seashore
almost naked

© Chèvrefeuille

I love the full beaches in summer. Everyone has fun enjoying the warm summer and the coolness of the sea. Children laugh making sandcastles, grown ups reading, playing, drinking, eating and laughing. Summer is a wonderful season and I think ... everyone enjoys it.

Well ... that's my submission for today for the Carpe Diem Summer Retreat. Feel free to step in and participate, you are welcome.

See you ...

Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2016 (5) white Chrysanthemum

Welcome my friends,

Here is my submission for the first Carpe Diem Summer Retreat, a retreat of 30 days of writing one haiku a day themed "one with nature". In this haiku I sense the connection with nature in a very strong way. I hope you will feel that same connection.

such a sad feeling 

this day I will be alone

white Chrysanthemum

© Chèvrefeuille

See you tomorrow.

Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2016 (4) colorful rays

Dear friends,

Yesterday I started the 5th Theme Week at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, my daily haiku meme, in this Theme Week we will dive into the mysteries of the Ascended Masters and Ascension. In today's episode I offered a haiku, which I love to share here (in a slightly different form) also as my 4th submission for the Summer Retreat.

in the low sunlight
crystal clear water breaks
colorful rays

© Chèvrefeuille

See you tomorrow. Feel free to participate in the Summer Retreat at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.

Namaste,

Chèvrefeuille