Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2017 (16) Unconditional love

Dear friends,

Maybe you have followed my other blog Carpe Diem Haiku Kai and than (maybe) you have spotted our new Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2017. It's running towards its end and I love to publish here a submission for this Summer Retreat themed Unconditional Love. Love is one of the most important emotions I think, and Unconditional Love is what we need here on our planet, because unconditional love has no boundaries and will always reach out to other people around you and around the world.

without boundaries
I open my heart to spread love
on wings of birds

© Chèvrefeuille

Without love we cannot reach our hands towards people around us. Love is really the only way to reach peace all over the globe.

Spread love,

Chèvrefeuille

Sensational Haiku Wednesday, Love

Also published for: Haiku my Heart

A new sensational haiku wednesday. In this week of St. Valentine the prompt for this week is "Love". Love ... the most needed energy for every one. Without love no life I use to say. And I think ... lots of others do think the same.
Unconditional love for everyone and everything is, in my opinion, the way to make our planet a better place to live. So let's go and write a few haiku on love.

red roses blooming
the smile of my lovely wife
my heart is pounding


love naturally 
Mother Earth's wonderful face
blooming in Spring

Credits: Mother Earth by Biswaal

she is lovely
the first full moon of Summer
the sound of the sea

Well ... I think this haiku triplet on love ... has become wonderful. I hope you like them as much as I do.

Sincerely,

The Haiku Challenge, day 14

Written for The Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 14 – February 14th – Theme or Word: Love or Valentine

Valentine's day, a day to send cards to secret lovers or give gifts to the one you love. But ... who was Valentine? I did some research on Valentine.

Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day, is a holiday observed on February
14 honoring one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine. It was first established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD, and was later deleted from the General Roman Calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI.
The day first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. By the 15th century, it had evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines").

Saint Valentine (in Latin, Valentinus) is the name of several (14 in all ) martyred saints of ancient Rome. The name "Valentine", derived from valens(worthy, strong, powerful), was popular in Late Antiquity. Of the Saint Valentine whose feast is on February 14, nothing is known except his name and that he was buried on the Via Flaminia north of Rome on February 14, he was born on April 16. It is even uncertain whether the feast of that day celebrates only one saint or more saints of the same name. For this reason this liturgical commemoration was not kept in the Catholic calendar of saints for universal liturgical veneration as revised in 1969. But "Martyr Valentinus the Presbyter and those with him at Rome" remains in the list of saints proposed for veneration by all Catholics

Well ... now I know a little bit more of Saint Valentine's Day. Now I can write a few new haiku for today's haiku challenge :-)


behind the clouds
the mysterious moon
'be my Valentine'


Valentine's Day
the postmen brings love cards
someone unknown

newly weds
eating oysters
under the plum tree


her lovely face
smiling at me in the mirror
'love you forever'


newly weds
under the blooming cherries
Ah! how lovely




Until tomorrow :-)

Haiku Heights "Desire"

This week a lovely prompt "desire", I have searched for some synonyms and came up with the following ones: yearning; longing; wish for and require. There are more synonyms of desire, but I have chosen the ones I can work with.

full of desire
eyes of my granddaughter
on her birthday

so sad, leaves fall
I am longing to see
cherry blossoms bloom

the freezing cold
I am yearning for summer
the shortest day

a shower of stars
the little boy smiles
what do you wish for?

falling in love
it just requires another one
my heart is pounding

Sincerely,