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Dear haijin, visitors and travelers, Today our second episode of this new feature at our Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special weblog. I called it ''Full Circle'' and the goal is to write haiku with the twelve (12) words I will give. It's a kind ofword-whirl and you have to use the words given in the clock-wise direction. So every word has to come in the line of it's place on the clock e.g.sunflower you have to use for line one (1) and rain storm for line two (2) and so on.
I will give you twelve (12) words (for every ''hour'') one word. The goal is to write haiku using the words as given in the clock wise way. Here are the 12 (twelve) words for this new episode: 1. sunflower 2. rain storm 3. puddles 4. sea shore 5. shells 6. making love 7. garden 8. waterfall 9. stones 10. sunrise 11. peony 12. shadow If you follow the words clock wise than you can compose four new haiku. This new feature is just for fun and I hope you will as much enjoy it as I did have fun and joy to create it.
I love to introduce a new kind of haiku to you all. It's based on the Fibonacci sequence and I think it's fun to write these new haiku-form. I have given it the name Fibo-Ku and the goal is to write a "haiku"-like verse following the Fibonacci sequence (1 + 1 = 2, 1 + 2 = 3, 2 + 3 = 5 etc.) The numbers of the Fibonacci sequence aren't numbers in this form, but syllables. So the first line has one (1) syllable and the second line also. The third line has two (2) syllables, the fourth line has three (3) syllables, the fifth line has five syllables and so on. As I give the sequence it looks like this:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and so on
I will give you an example of a Fibo-Ku titled "this summer morning "
Of course you can make this Fibo-Ku longer by using more numbers from the Fibonacci sequence, but in this example I have reached the 7th line with 13 syllables. I think it's fun to compose these Fibo-Ku and I think you all will like it ...
So try it and let me know if you liked it ... I am always on search for new forms of haiku, sometimes artificial as this Fibo-Ku is for example. NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until August 14th at noon (CET).
Today I love to introduce an all new feature here at our Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special weblog. I have called it ''Full Circle'' and the goal is to write haiku with the twelve (12) words I will give. It's a kind of word-whirl and you have to use the words given in the clock-wise direction. So every word has to come in the line of it's place on the clock e.g. cherry you have to use for line one (1) and leaves for line two (2) and so on.
I will give you twelve (12) words (for every ''hour'') one word. The goal is to write haiku using the words as given in the clock wise way.
If you follow the words clock wise than you can compose four new haiku. This new feature is just for fun and I hope you will as much enjoy it as I did have fun and joy to create it.
This first episode of Carpe Diem Full Circle will be NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open for the next two weeks. So it ends on Friday August 8th at noon (CET). Just have fun and enjoy!
Share your ''full circle'' composition with us all!
I love to introduce a new Special feature here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special, the place to be for Haiku-poets searching for inspiration ...
This new feature I have called "Carpe Diem's Let The Music Inspire You" and as the name already says: This new feature is about inspirational music to write haiku. As you maybe know from Carpe Diem Haiku Kai we have had earlier months with music-compositions for inspiration and last month we had music by BrunuhVille, a young Portugese composer, for inspiration.
For this first "Let The Music Inspire You" I have chosen a wonderful piece of music by Vivaldi, I think you all know "The Four Seasons" and I love to share the summer part here
Well .... I hope you did like this music and that it has inspired you to write a new haiku. Have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special.
This first episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until July 16th at noon.
Share your haiku inspired on this piece of music by Vivaldi with us all here at our Special weblog.
Albert
Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks
later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the
Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his
education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal
Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and
mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss
citizenship and, as he was unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a
position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905 he obtained
his doctor's degree.
During his stay at the Patent Office, and in his spare time, he produced much
of his remarkable work and in 1908 he was appointed Privatdozent in Berne. In
1909 he became Professor Extraordinary at Zurich, in 1911 Professor of
Theoretical Physics at Prague, returning to Zurich in the following year to
fill a similar post. In 1914 he was appointed Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm
Physical Institute and Professor in the University of Berlin. He became a
German citizen in 1914 and remained in Berlin until 1933 when he renounced his
citizenship for political reasons and emigrated to America to take the position
of Professor of Theoretical Physics at Princeton*. He became a United States
citizen in 1940 and retired from his post in 1945.
Einstein always appeared to have a clear view of the problems of physics and
the determination to solve them. He had a strategy of his own and was able to
visualize the main stages on the way to his goal. He regarded his major
achievements as mere stepping-stones for the next advance. In the 1920's, Einstein embarked on the construction of unified field theories,
although he continued to work on the probabilistic interpretation of quantum
theory, and he persevered with this work in America. He contributed to
statistical mechanics by his development of the quantum theory of a monatomic
gas and he has also accomplished valuable work in connection with atomic
transition probabilities and relativistic cosmology.
He died on
April 18, 1955 at Princeton, New Jersey.
Here is Einstein's quote for your inspiration:
[...] "Only one
who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true
master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person." [...]
In this quote it's very clear, in my opinion, that you can only become a master if you do any- everything to become a master. In our case, my case, that's being always busy with haiku. If I do any- everything to become a master in haiku than I finally will become a haiku master ...
The goal is to write a haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka or haibun inspired on the quote. I think this one isn't easy, but well ... it has to be challenging ...
devotees of Buddha meditating and contemplating to become master
This episode op CD Use That Quote is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until June 30th at noon. Have fun, be inspired and share your inspired haiku with us all here at our Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special.
Have fun, be inspired and share your haiku inspired on the quote by Einstein with us all.
I have finally found some more time to bring Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special back to life again. And I hope that you all will appreciate this weblog as much as I appreciate it while making it a success. A new episode of Carpe Diem's Japanese Garden is coming up.
Several
months ago I introduced “Carpe Diem’s Japanese Garden”. This feature goes back to the roots of
haiku and challenges you to go back to basic. The title of this feature is
referring to the classic rules of haiku, but in this feature not all those
classic rules have to be used, just a few of them.
Which rules
you have to use here?
1. 5-7-5
syllables 2. A moment
as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water 3. A kigo 4. A
deeper, spiritual meaning 5. And
last, but not least, it must have a nature image
As the title already says ... it has to be something which
can be seen in your garden, but in this case garden can be seen a bit broader,
because you also may use an image from a park in your neighbourhood or e.g. a
park such as Yellowstone Park.
Here is my new haiku for CD's Japanese Garden:
gurgling valley stream can't resist your lovely song - shadow of a Carp
It's up to you now to
share your thoughts with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special. Have fun,
be inspired and share.
This episode of Carpe Diem's Japanese Garden is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until June 18th at noon (cet).
Share your haiku inspired on a photo of your own choice and with the rules given with us all here at our Special Carpe Diem Haiku Kai place on the Internet.
It's a while ago, somewhere back in March 2014, that published a episode of Carpe Diem's Use That Quote, so I thought "Maybe I have to publish a new episode of CD Quote", so here it is a new CD Quote:
Confucius was a Chinese philosopher who lived from 551 BC to 479 BC. He is a wellknown philosopher and there are a lot of quotes by him, but his philosophy is also one of the spiritual roots of haiku. In the haiku by e.g. Basho we can see a lot of confucianism. Basho had studied the works of Confucius and in a part of his life he used Confucius' philosophy for quite a while.
To use this quote in a haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka or haibun isn't easy, but I have to try it of course.
the circle of life cherry blossoms bloom and fall one by one
This episode of CD Use That Quote is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until May 30th at noon. Have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special.
Share your haiku inspired on the quote by Confucius with us all.
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