Tuscany

Dear friends and followers,

As you maybe know I am the host and owner of the daily haiku meme Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. This month we are on a "ginko" (a journey) straight through the countries which are part of the European Union.

Today we visit Italy and specifically Tuscany. Tuscany is a wonderful part of Italy with its capital Florence. Tuscany has a lot of beautiful places, but especially the sunflower fields are in my opinion the most wonderful of Tuscany.

one yellow sea
as far as I can see
sunflowers

on the piazza
drinking wine with my love
sunflower field in front

© Chèvrefeuille

Not as strong as I had hoped, but these two haiku give in my opinion a nice feeling of Tuscany. I hope you did like this post.

Have a wonderful Sunday.

Sunflower

For Carpe Diem:

The theme/prompt for today's Carpe Diem is sunflower and I love to share this haiku with you. I love sunflowers, they look like a bright sun ... strong and awesome.

in my garden
sunflowers bow their heads
in honor of the sun

in honor of the sun
I plant a pair of sunflowers
in the backyard

in the backyard
no sun at all will be seen
only sunflowers

only sunflowers
those beautiful little suns
in my garden

Isn't it beautiful? To see sunflowers on places without sun? Sunflowers are a joy to look at and are bringing a little bit light in the shadow.

Well .... see you tomorrow maybe ... than our Carpe Diem prompt will be 'praying'.

September Heights, day 25 sleep

Inspired by the theme at

Good day to you all, my dear visitors,

Day 25 of September Heights is on, the theme is sleep. I can imagine a few haiku on this theme, so let's go for it and do some haiku composing.

midday nap
a hot summer day break
against the cool wall

a butterfly
sleeping on a sunflower
shall he have a dream?

be my friend
blue butterfly on Honeysuckle
I am alone

Source: Blue Butterfly on Sunflower

Well ... almost over this September Heights. 'Till now it was great! Thank you Leo for this treat.

Tackle It Tuesday, "sunflowers"

Another week has gone by. As you can notice, my dear Haijin and visitors, I use another linky tool. It wasn't possible for me to continue with the older linky tool, because of the costs of it.

So I have taken a new one.

This week's theme is Sunflowers. Those wonderful flowers looking like shining suns. Van Gogh did paint several paintings with Sunflowers and one of those paintings I have enclosed here as an inspiration.

And ... this is my haiku to inspire you ...

in dark times
sunflowers will give
joy and happiness

As for now ... you can share your entry 'till monday june 18th midnight 23:59 PM

Enjoy the fun ...

PS.: Please be so kind to write a comment after linking.

Haiku My Heart

Haiku My Heart

Several weeks ago I discovered the Haiku My Heart weblog and I was in love with that weblog. I love to write today for Haiku My Heart a few haiku with Light as theme.

in pale moonlight
the young cherry blossoms
so fragile

at sunrise
the mysterious line between night and day
lightens sunflowers

the day has ended
in reddish and yellowish light
young Honeysuckle

I am glad that I have written this set of haiku (in the so called Kanshicho-style) to bring a little bit of light to Haiku My Heart.

Blessed Be,