Saturday, July 16, 2016

Summer Retreat (2) a pebble


Dear friends,

The Summer Retreat of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai has started. The Summer Retreat is an all new feature at my daily haiku meme Carpe Diem Haiku Kai ... and you are invited to participate in it. This first Summer Retreat is themed "One With Nature" and you have to write a haiku (or tanka) every day inspired on your adventures in nature. The Summer Retreat runs to August 15th 10.00 PM (CET). Yesterday I started myself too ... so here is my haiku "One With Nature" - themed for today:




hidden
a pebble

in mud

© Chèvrefeuille

A sweet little surprise ... a treasure found, a white pebble. This haiku is very minimalistic it's created in the way of Santoka Taneda, a classic free-styler haiku poet.


Friday, July 15, 2016

Carpe Diem's Summer Retreat 2016 "One With Nature"


Good day dear friends and followers,

Maybe you know that I am the host of the daily haiku meme Carpe Diem Haiku Kai or else you know it now. At Carpe Diem Haiku Kai I have started the first Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Summer Retreat. This Summer Retreat will take 30 days and the goal is to write a haiku (or tanka) a day, so at the end of the Summer Retreat I will have created 30 new haiku (or tanka).
For this first edition of the Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Summer Retreat the theme is "One With Nature". As you maybe know haiku is known as the peotry of nature, so a lot of the haiku poets are living close to nature and respect the beauty of our Earth's nature.

This Summer Retreat will be awesome I think. So let's go ...

Here is my first haiku for the "Summer Retreat":

deep silence -
the sound of a fountain

and the song of birds

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... it has started ...

I am excited and I hope to read a lot of beautiful haiku or tanka themed "One With Nature".