tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671214812057048082024-03-13T19:11:06.988-07:00CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI SPECIALCarpe Diem Haiku Kai Special is a weblog about haiku, senryu, tanka and kyoka. All Japanese poetry forms. It's the place to be for all aficionados of Japanese poetry in the broadest idea. ++ Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special is part of Carpe Diem Haiku Family ++ !! Anonymous comments will be seen as SPAM and deleted !!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267121481205704808.post-102422270443833762014-08-19T07:32:00.003-07:002014-08-19T07:32:52.128-07:00Carpe Diem Full Circle #2, Puddles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Dear haijin, visitors and travelers,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">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 of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>word-whirl </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">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.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>sunflower you have to use for line one (1) and rain storm for line two (2) and so on.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">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.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Here are the 12 (twelve) words for this new episode:</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b>1. sunflower</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b>2. rain storm</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b>3. puddles</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b>4. sea shore</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">5. shells</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">6. making love</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">7. garden</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">8. waterfall</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">9. stones</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">10. sunrise</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">11. peony</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">12. shadow</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">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.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Here is an example of a new haiku written with the first three words:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: inherit;"><b>broken sunflower</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: inherit;"><b>torn apart through a rain storm -</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: inherit;"><b>puddles on the path</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">© Chèvrefeuille</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This episode of "Full Circle" is <b><u>NOW OPEN for your submissions</u></b> and will remain open until August 31st at noon (CET). Have fun! Just enjoy this "Full Circle" haiku-composing.</span></span><br />
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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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I love to introduce a new kind of haiku to you all. It's based on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number" target="_blank">Fibonacci sequence</a> 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:<br />
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1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and so on<br />
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I will give you an example of a Fibo-Ku titled "this summer morning "<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #351c75;">sun<br />moon<br />star light<br />the breeze<br />this summer morning<br />birds singing their beautiful songs -<br />young sparrows playing hide and seek in the dry sand of the garden </span></strong><br />
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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 ...<br />
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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. <strong><u>NOW OPEN for your submissions</u></strong> and will remain open until August 14th at noon (CET).<br />
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Dear haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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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 <i>word-whirl </i>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. <i>cherry you have to use for line one (1) and leaves for line two (2) and so on.</i><br />
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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.<br />
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Here are the 12 (twelve) words:<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">1. cherry </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">2. leaves</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">3. breeze</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">4. solstice</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">5. beach</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">6. love</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">7. departure</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">8. moon</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">9. mushrooms</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">10. icicles</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">11. blizzard</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">12. fireworks</span></b><br />
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With these words you have to compose new haiku e.g. this haiku based on the three first words:<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">cherry blossoms bloom</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">between the young leaves -</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">the warm breeze</span></b><br />
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© Chèvrefeuille<br />
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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.<br />
This first episode of Carpe Diem Full Circle will be <b><u>NOW OPEN for your submissions</u></b> and will remain open for the next two weeks. So it ends on Friday August 8th at noon (CET). Just have fun and enjoy!<br />
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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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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 ...<br />
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 <a href="http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">Carpe Diem Haiku Kai</span></strong></a> we have had earlier months with music-compositions for inspiration and last month we had music by BrunuhVille, a young Portugese composer, for inspiration.<br />
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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<br />
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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.<br />
This first episode is <strong><u>NOW OPEN for your submissions</u></strong> and will remain open until July 16th at noon.<br />
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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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It's my pleasure to create a new episode of Carpe Diem's "Use that Quote" for this episode I have chosen a quote by Albert Einstein.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://archives.deccanchronicle.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_node_view/public/einstein-29-1.jpg" target="_blank">Credits: Albert Einstein (1879-1955)</a></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">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.<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He died on
April 18, 1955 at Princeton, New Jersey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Here is Einstein's quote for your inspiration:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #45818e; font-size: large;"><i>[...] "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." [...]</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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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 ...</div>
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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 ...</div>
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<b><span style="color: #45818e;">devotees of Buddha</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #45818e;">meditating and contemplating</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #45818e;">to become master</span></b></div>
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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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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.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><u>Which rules
you have to use here?<o:p></o:p></u></strong></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><em><span style="color: #38761d;">1. 5-7-5
syllables<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. A moment
as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. A kigo<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4. A
deeper, spiritual meaning<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5. And
last, but not least, it must have a nature image<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">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.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is my new haiku for CD's Japanese Garden:</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><span style="color: #b45f06;">gurgling valley stream<br />can't resist your lovely song -<br />shadow of a Carp</span></strong></span></div>
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It's up to you now to
share your thoughts with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special. Have fun,
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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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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:<br />
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Today I love to share a quote by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Confucius</span></b></a>:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.greatthoughtstreasury.com/author/confucius-aka-kong-qiu-zhongni-kung-fu-tzu-or-kong-fuzi" target="_blank">Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)</a></td></tr>
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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.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To use this quote in a haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka or haibun isn't easy, but I have to try it of course.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #a64d79;"><b>the circle of life<br />cherry blossoms bloom and fall<br />one by one</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Hm ... not a bad try I think ...</span></div>
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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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As you follow my other weblog Carpe Diem Haiku Kai than you maybe know that we are on a pilgrimage along the 88 temples on the Island of Shikoku. It's a pilgrimage who every Buddhist needs to make once in his/her lifetime. This pilgrimage inspired me to create this all new feature, because one of the 'classic rules' of haiku is that there has to be a deeper meaning in it, mostly based on Buddhism, but all other spiritual ways of other religions can also be in it on a deeper layer.<br />
Here ... however ... I will try to stay close to my own philosophy which is based on more than one religion or spiritual vision.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bhagavata.org/images/krishna/11.4nara_narayana.jpg" target="_blank">Nara NaraYana</a></td></tr>
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In this episode I love to share a bit of my philosophy with you all. This philosophy of my is very important in all that what I am doing e.g. in my work as an oncology nurse in a local hospital. My philosophy is:<br />
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<em>First ... live out of unconditional love for all and everything on Earth<br />Second ... in everything and everyone there is God (or Spirit or what ever you call it yourself), which is based on the thought 'NaraNaraYana", a Hindu word which means something like "God in humankind, humankind in God".<br />And last but not least ... you have always look towards the other with respect and you have to accept that the other is different from you. In my work I always look at my patients with the thought "How would I like it if I was in that hospital bed?"</em></div>
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Well ... I hope this post inspires you to compose a 'spiritual' haiku. It inspired me to write the next haiku:<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #351c75;">unconditional<br />love never makes exceptions -<br />the sun rises again</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #351c75;">the sun rises again<br />every day without asking why<br />unconditional</span></strong><br />
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(c) Chèvrefeuille<br />
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Not a strong set I think, but I think the message has become clear ... is it a spiritual one? Yes it is ... Now it's up to you ...<br />
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This episode is <strong><u>NOW OPEN for your submissions</u></strong> and will remain open until March 2nd 11.59 AM (CET).<br />
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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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Another nice episode of this Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special "Only The First Line", in which the goal is to write a new haiku which starts with the first line I give. I have searched for a new "First Line" and came up with this one: <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">"<span style="color: #990000;">blooming ice flowers</span>"</span></strong><br />
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So the goal of this episode is to write a new haiku starting with the line given "blooming Ice Flowers" not an easy task, but ... well it's a challenge and a challenge is not always easy (smiles). And to make this somewhat more like a challenge you have to write your haiku in the classical 5-7-5 syllables way. <br />
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Of course I have tried it myself. Here is my attempt to write a haiku starting with the line "blooming Ice Flowers". <br />
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<strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">blooming ice flowers<br />painted in this stone cold night<br />on bedroom window</span></strong><br />
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(c) Chèvrefeuille<br />
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This episode of "Only the First Line" is <strong><span style="color: #38761d;">NOW OPEN for your submissions</span></strong> and will remain open until February 22th 11.59 AM (CET).<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another episode of "Use That Quote" in which the goal is to write a haiku, senryu, tanka or kyoka inspired on the given quote.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">For this episode I have chosen for a wonderful quote by one of my heroes ... Mahatma Gandhi who fought against the oppression of the United Kingdom with his non-violence policy. As I saw the movie "Gandhi" I was inspired and I wrote an essay with his ideas as base about the oppression of our homosexual neighbours and the growing intolerance against them here in The Netherlands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The quote for this episode is:</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[...] "You
can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will
never imprison my mind" [...] – Mahatma Gandhi</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">It will not be an easy task I think, because in this quote there is no real nature, but ... well have to try it. You don't have to use the text as it is given, you can use it for inspiration and that's what I tried when I wrote this haiku:<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><strong>like a chain of iron<br />the Wisteria climbs against the wall<br />reaching for the sky</strong></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><strong>reaching for the sky<br />the silver birches in my garden<br />without leaves<br /><br />without leaves<br />a tree looks very much alive<br />following his own path</strong></span><br />
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I hope you understand the inspiration which I took from the quote ... I think this is a nice trio of haiku, but that's not up to me to say ...<br />
This episode of "Use That Quote" is <strong><u>NOW OPEN for your submissions</u></strong> and will remain open until February 19th 11.59 AM (CET). Have fun ....</span></span><br />
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I have another "only the first line" episode for you to work with. The goal of this feature is to write an all new haiku which starts with the given first line. It's a nice feature and it challenges you to think 'out of the box', because this feature doesn't work with one of the classic rules namely ... an experienced moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water.<br />
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This week's haiku has to start with the following first line:<br />
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<b><i>a shooting star</i></b><br />
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Ah ... an easy one I think, but ... we will see ... here is my attempt to write a new haiku starting with this first line:<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">a shooting star<br />
cuts through the dark moonless night -<br />
wish you were here</span></b></i><br />
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<i>(</i><i>c</i><i>)</i><i>Chèvrefeuille</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,</span><br />
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present to you our second episode of Carpe Diem's "Use that Quote" in which the goal is to
write a haiku, senryu, tanka or kyoka inspired on a given quote. </span><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Today I have chosen a quote by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahlil_Gibran" target="_blank">Khalil Gibran</a> a Lebanese writer and poet, but also a philosopher. He wrote a lot of novels about spirituality. Our quote from today's episode of Carpe Diem's "Use That Quote" is from his novel "The Prophet".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I have read almost all his novels and I love his work a lot. He is the reason, why I once started to read Paulo Coelho's novels. Paulo's latest novel "Manuscript found in Accra" looks very similar with the novels of Khalil Gibran ... maybe they are related in mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Here is the quote for this episode:</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><strong><em>"forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair"</em></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And now it's the goal to use this quote for your inspiration to write a haiku, senryu, tanka or kyoka. I know that will not be easy, because I had some difficulties myself to write a haiku with this quote for inspiration, but I think I have succeeded. Here is my haiku inspired on the quote by Khalil Gibran.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">with bare feet</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">dancing on Mother Earth's grounds</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">wind plays with my hair</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This episode of "Use That Quote" will stay on until February 6th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will try to post on that same day a new episode. For now have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special.</span><br />
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I love to introduce an all new feature here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special and I think this new feature will give you all a joyful challenge.<br />
This new feature, this new challenge, goes back to the roots of haiku and challenges you to go back to basic. It's very similar to our other special feature "Goes Back to Its Roots". The title of this new feature is referring to the classic rules of haiku, but in this new feature not all those classic rules have to be used, just a few of them.</div>
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<i>1. 5-7-5 syllables</i><br />
<i>2. A moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water</i><br />
<i>3. A kigo</i><br />
<i>4. A deeper, spiritual meaning</i></div>
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<i>5. And last, but not least, it must have a nature image</i></div>
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Almost the same as in our "Goes Back to Its Roots", but for all a little bit different I think. 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 neighborhood or e.g. a park such as Yellowstone Park.<br /></div>
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Let me give it a try with the above photo which I took in the city-park just around the corner in my hometown. This park is ... an oasis in a busy part of my hometown. As I walk here I don't even feel that I am in the city. In spring this park is a peaceful place and in winter, as the pond is frozen, it's a joyful place to skate and meet other people from my neighborhood. In summer you can even swim here. And of course in autumn it's the place to be to search for chestnuts and colorful leaves. </div>
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Here is my attempt to write a classical haiku inspired on the city-park just around the corner.</div>
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<b><i style="color: #134f5c;">heart of the neighborhood</i></b><br />
<b><i style="color: #134f5c;">in every season of the year</i></b><br />
<b><i style="color: #134f5c;">the place to contemplate</i></b></div>
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A beauty I can say, how immodest, but it's what I feel as I read this haiku again and again. It's a strong one and I think it's in touch with the goal of this new feature. What do you think?</div>
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Well ... I hope you like this new feature and I hope it will become a feature that is loved by you all. It's up to you now to take up this new challenge and share your thoughts with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special. Have fun, be inspired and share.</div>
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This episode of CD "Japanese Garden" will stay open until January 28th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will try to publish a new episode of "Japanese Garden" later on that same day. <i><b style="color: #741b47;">!! This episode is now open for your submissions !!</b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am a bit late with this new episode of our Little Ones feature, the feature in which I challenge you to think "out of the haiku-box" by writing other short poems as for example 'cinquain', 'villanelle' or 'tanka'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This episode is inspired on the posts by Bjorn Rudberg of Bjorn Rudberg's Writings for this month's Carpe Diem in which we are on a journey straight through the (former) Soviet Union. He writes an every day haibun followed by a so called "American Sentence". I had never heard about that poetry form, but as I read the first posts by Bjorn ... I started to like those "American Sentences" ... that's the reason why I have chosen for this theme for this episode of our special feature "Little Ones".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let me tell you something more about this so called "American Sentences".
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bjorn Rudberg recently introduced me to American
Sentences, a poetic form developed by Allen Ginsberg in the mid-1980′s as a
response to the haiku.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If haiku involved
seventeen syllables down the page, he reasoned, American Sentences would be
seventeen syllables across the page–an attempt to more accurately “Americanize”
a form that had previously translated only roughly across the Pacific into the
context of American poetry.<br />
<br />Like (rough) English approximations of the haiku, American Sentences work
closely with concision of line and sharpness of detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike its literary predecessor, however, it
is compressed into a single line of poetry and included a reference to a month
and year (or alternatively, a location) rather than a season.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">An few examples by Allen Ginsberg:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><em><span style="color: #990000;">Four
skinheads stand in the streetlight rain chatting under an umbrella.</span></em></strong> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Or this one: </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><strong><em><span style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">Put
my tie on in a taxi, short of breath, rushing to meditate</span></em></strong></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">And what to think of this example written by </span><a href="http://brudberg.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/carpe-diem-haiku-irkutsk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bjorn Rudberg for the Irkutsk prompt</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> at our Carpe Diem Haiku Kai weblog:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><strong><em><span style="color: #990000;">The wonders
of a city threatens, as its viewed from a compartment<o:p></o:p></span></em></strong></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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I think this isn't an easy poetry form, but they say "if you can write haiku, than you can write an American Sentence too". Well ... we will see ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is my attempt, I have chosen to use a old haiku of myself to write this first American Sentence ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This the haiku which I used:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;"><strong>such
a hot day<br />
my shadow needs <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to cool down<br />
under the willow</strong></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I 'revised' this one into a American Sentence by changing it a little bit:</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;"><strong><em>Such a bloody hot day, my shadow needs to cool down under the willow</em></strong></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This isn't a great one I know, but I am looking forward to your inspired American Sentence. I think this is a poetry-form which will not become my 'cup-of-tea', but ... you never know ...</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This episode of Carpe Diem's "Little Ones", is <strong><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">NOW OPEN</span></u></strong> for your submissions and will stay open until February 3th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will try to post our new episode of "Little Ones" that same day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our first episode of "Only the First Line" wasn't a big success, but maybe this second episode will be more inspiration for you all. The goal of this feature is to write a haiku with the given first line. That given first line must be used as the first line of your haiku.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This feature is very similar with our other Special feature "Make The Haiku Complete". So if you would read more than visit our first weblog </span><a href="http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Carpe Diem Haiku Kai"</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is the First Line which you have to use for your haiku. By the way ... you may write a classical or a non-classical haiku that's all up to you. The only thing you have to do is use the give line as your first line.</span><br />
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">hunger moon</span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Hunger Moon" is the name of the full moon of January as it is mentioned in <em>Thomas's Old Farmers Almanac (founded in 1792). </em><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">During this
month the wolves once roamed the countryside, thus suggesting the name wolf
moon. In cold and temperate climates of the Northern Hemisphere, it was
difficult to find food during January, thus the name hunger moon.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">hunger moon</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">the howling of wolves -</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">cry of a crow</span></strong><br />
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(c) Chèvrefeuille<br />
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An all new feature for fun. This feature is about the satirical and humorfull kind of haiku and tanka. So it's about <i>senryu</i><i> </i><i>and</i><i> </i>kyoka. There is no consensus about the differences between haiku & senryu and tanka & kyoka, but the most known differences are the following, as you know other differences ... please share them with us.<br />
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1. Haiku and Tanka are mostly about:<br />
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- nature and the role of mankind in it<br />
- have a deeper meaning<br />
- lack of humor <br />
- and the use of 'cutting-words' and 'seasonwords'<br />
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2. Senryu and Kyoka are mostly about:<br />
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- human affaires<br />
- humor<br />
- satire<br />
- mostly no deeper meaning or spiritual background<br />
- no use of 'cutting-words' and 'seasonwords'.<br />
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Those differences are not commonly used, because a lot of haiku and tanka are also senryu and kyoka, so it's a short line on which we are continuosly balancing.<br />
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This new Special feature is about <i>senryu</i><i> </i>and <i>kyoka</i><i>. </i>So if you love to participate you have to share a 'real' senryu or kyoka. For this feature I have chosen to give a prompt which you've to use. For this first episode of Carpe Diem's "senryu and kyoka", the prompt is: <i>wedding</i><i> </i><i>ring</i><i>.</i><br />
So the challenge is to write a senryu or kyoka (respectively 5-7-5 or 5-7-5-7-7) with wedding ring.<br />
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Let's give it a try, first a senryu:<br />
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<b style="color: #0b5394;">between the dishes</b><br />
<b style="color: #0b5394;">the shimmering of a wedding ring -</b><br />
<b style="color: #0b5394;">caught in a wine-glass</b><br />
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And a kyoka in which I have used the above senryu and wrote two lines towards it to make it a kyoka.<br />
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<b style="color: #0b5394;">between the dishes</b><br />
<b style="color: #0b5394;">the shimmering of a wedding ring -</b><br />
<b style="color: #0b5394;">caught in a wine-glass</b><br />
<b style="color: #0b5394;">a faint smile on her face</b><br />
<b style="color: #0b5394;">she remembers a hot night</b><br />
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Well ... this wasn't easy, because senryu and kyoka aren't my 'cup of tea'. Now it's up to you to write a senryu or kyoka (or both). Have fun, be inspired and share your senryu or kyoka with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special.<br />
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This episode of 'senryu and kyoka' will stay open for your submissions until February 14th 11.59 AM (CET) and is <b style="color: #cc0000;">NOW OPEN for your submissions</b>.<br />
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Namaste<br />
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D<span style="font-family: inherit;">ear Haijin, visitors and travelers,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's a joy to share the second episode of Carpe Diem "Haiga Festival" with you all here at Carpe Diem's Special features weblog. Until now this new weblog is a success, but I love to see more contributors to this Special Features weblog, so ... feel free to invite others to visit us here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Haiga is a
nice kind of art and poetry it's a photo, painting or other kind of image with
a haiku, senryu, tanka or kyoka included. The picture and the poem are making
eachother stronger or making eachother clearer.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have created a few haiga in the past years and I liked doing it ... so I hope
you all appreciate this feature and I will (try to) publish an every week
episode of Haiga Festival.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">F</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">or this feature the only task is to share a Haiga with us. Maybe you have a
special memory going with it ... or maybe your haiga is just that beautiful to
share. This feature will not have a given prompt ... it's just free ... feel
free to share your haiga which you like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today I love to share a Haiga which I included in my 2010 collection of haiku "Dew On The Fields". It's a wonderful Haiga I think, but that's up to you to say.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">'I want to cross it' --</span></b><br />
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It's my pleasure to introduce an all new Special feature on Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special titled: "Carpe Diem Spiritual Ways".</div>
As you (maybe) all know, haiku has a strong connection with Buddhism. A lot of haiku have a Buddhistic layer and for example Basho, Issa and Chiyo-Ni (a female haiku-poet) were Buddhist, Chiyo-Ni was a Buddhist monk.<br />
A few years ago I wrote a short essay about haiku for <a href="http://www.wonderhaikuworlds.com/" target="_blank">Wonder Haiku Worlds</a> in which I stated that haiku can be read (seen) as a 'Koan', the impossible question which can give Enlightenment. I think that (all) haiku can really be seen as such a koan, but that's just my idea, my vision.<br />
If you're a loyal 'follower' of our Carpe Diem weblogs than you know that we are on a journey to Shikoku which started this month with all daily prompts about the Trans Siberian Railroad straight through the Soviet Union and the next two months we will go on a pilgrimage along the 88 shrines on the Island Shikoku and I will tell you more about the Buddhistic 'rules' of haiku.<br />
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OK ... back to this new Special feature. I have named it "Spiritual Ways" and the goal is to write a haiku, senryu, tanka or kyoka with a spiritual layer in it. With this new feature I hope to promote the Spiritual Way of haiku and to make you all aware of that 'classical rule' in haiku. I know it will not be easy, but that's the challenge. As Iread my haiku than I have written a lot of haiku with that Spiritual Way hidden in it. Sometimes even clear in my haiku, but mostly hidden beneath the surface of the haiku. </div>
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Let's give it a try to write, compose, a few haiku written with a spiritual layer. First I love to share a few oldies which I wrote in the years laying behind us.</div>
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<i><b style="color: #cc0000;">lonely flower<br />my companion for a night -<br />I bow my head</b></i></div>
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<i>(c) Chèvrefeuille</i></div>
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In this haiku the deeper layer is the 'loneliness' and the 'selflessness' of a Buddhistic monk. I wrote this haiku as I was wandering through a big parc outside of the city where I live. I remember that it was a nice sunny late autumn day and I was completely alone in that parc. My thoughts went to a moment back in time in which I felt completely alone. It was not long after that my only brother died of lungcancer (1995). As my thoughts went on a run with me I saw a lonely flower between the bare branches. It was a, as we call it here in The Netherlands, a 'Hondsroos' ('dog rose'). I plucked it and took it with me. As I arrived at my home there was nobody at home and I was completely alone, I had only that 'dog rose' and that comforted me.</div>
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Another one in which the 'Spiritual Way' was more clear I wrote in response to a photo of praying hands.</div>
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<i><b style="color: #674ea7;">strong hands praying<br />at the corner of the street -<br />God be with you</b></i></div>
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As you can read in both haiku there's a kind of spirituality in it and that's the goal of this new Special feature "Spiritual Ways" ... let me share another haiku for this new feature.<br />
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<i><b style="color: #674ea7;">deep silence<br />only whispered prayers -<br />the scent of incense</b></i><br />
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<i>(c) Chèvrefeuille </i><br />
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I hope you did like this new Special feature and that it will give you joy and inspiration to write, compose your haiku, senryu, tanka or kyoka with a "Spiritual Way".<br />
This Special feature will be open for your submissions until January 28th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will (try to) publish a new episode of "Spiritual Ways" that same day. !! This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions !!<br />
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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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It's a New Year and in this time of year (and before) most of us will have moments in which they are thinking back to nice times or sad times ... We all have Memories. As we are on board of the Trans Siberian Railroad on a trip straight through the Soviet Union ... we are in touch with the memories of Paulo Coelho for example, but during that journey I have also read wonderful haiku based on Sweet (and sad) Memories.<br />
Memories are part of our life and sometimes those memories have brought nice haiku in the past, but they can also bring new haiku right now. Every haiku you have written during your lifetime has a memory build in it.<br />
This special feature is meant to be for those haiku, senryu, tanka or kyoka which bring (Sweet) Memories to you. Here you can share a haiku written around such a memory.<br />
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For this episode of "Sweet Memories" I have chosen to share my first English haiku ever which I wrote somewhere back in 2005. That haiku I published on <a href="http://www.wonderhaikuworlds.com/" target="_blank">Wonder Haiku Worlds</a> and it brought me (finally) what I once dreamed for, becoming Internationally known as a haiku-poet. That first haiku was translated in a lot of other languages and was published in a world wide anthology "Spasms of Light" in 2011.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">a lonely flower</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">my companion</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">for one night</span></b><br />
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(c) Chèvrefeuille, 2005<br /><br />
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Really a nice haiku and I than couldn't think that it would bring fame.<br />
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For this feature you don't get a prompt, you may share what you want ... of course that has to be a haiku, senryu, tanka or kyoka (smiles), the only thing is that the haiku you share has a story, a memory. Just feel free to share your memories caught in haiku.<br />
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This episode of "Sweet Memories" will be open for your submissions until January 28th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will try to publish a new episode of 'sweet memories' on that same day. <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">!! This episode is NOW OPEN !!</span></b><br />
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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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I love to introduce a new Special feature ... titled <i>"only the first line"</i> it's somewhat similar with our Special feature <a href="http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.nl/2013/10/carpe-diem-make-haiku-complete-1.html" target="_blank">"Make the haiku complete"</a>, but in this new feature the goal is to write a whole new haiku with only the given first line. The given first line must be used as given. For example as the first line is "cherry blossoms bloom" than you have to use that line as the first line of your haiku.<br />
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This new feature is based on a challenge the Dutch Haiku Association gave his members last autumn and I enjoyed it very much ... it wasn't easy and the written haiku were all so different. I think you all will like this new Special feature a lot.<br />
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You may write a classical or a non-classical haiku with that first line it's all up to you. Well ... I hope you understand the goal of this Special feature ... so let us go do it ... here is the first line of the haiku you have to write.<br />
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<b><i>shimmering</i><i> </i><i>pebble</i></b><br />
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Not so bad I think to write a haiku with this above line used as the first line ... so good luck ...<br />
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My attempt:<br />
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<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">shimmering pebble<br />hidden between colored leaves <br />a little treasure</span></b><br />
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(C) Chèvrefeuille, your host<br />
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This episode of Carpe Diem's "only the first line" is <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">now open for your submissions</span></b> and will stay open until January 19th 11.59 AM (CET). Have fun be inspired and share your haiku starting with the first line <i>shimmering</i><i> </i><i>pebble.</i><br />
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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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It's time for an all new episode of our Special feature on writing Haibun. This is our new episode of Carpe Diem's Kamishibai. Kamishibai (meaning 'storyteller') is a Special feature in which the goal is to write a haibun. A haibun is a short story or travelogue in which haiku are included. It's a classical poetry form which was performed for example by Matsuo Basho. Basho made ten (10) journeys through Japan and noted his adventures in a haibun. His most known haibun is called<em>: "Oki No Hosomichi</em>", "The Narrow Road to the Deep North", a great haibun about you can read more on our first weblog "<a href="http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.nl/2013/04/carpe-diems-kamishibai.html" target="_blank">Carpe Diem Haiku Kai</a>".<br />
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The task for this episode of "Carpe Diem's Kamishibai" is to write a haibun about <b>your neighborhood</b>, must be easy ...<br />
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At least one evening in the week I walk through my neighborhood, just for fun. I love looking through windows at the people in their homes and in this time of year (around the december holidays) it's really a joy to do that, but in all seasons it's a joy. Here is my (short) haibun "my neighborhood".<br />
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It's almost around 10 PM (CET) as I walk through my neighborhood. It's a bit cold, a bright star-spotted sky and the almost full moon are leading me on my path. It's a few days before Christmas and in a lot of homes the Christmastree already has been decorated. As I walk on I rest a while looking through the window of one of my neighbor's. They are decorating the Christmastree and I can hear Christmas-songs through the open window of their kitchen. The windows are partly steamed. I hear the laughter of the young kids and the soft bark of a little dog.<br />
As I look closer I can see that the female neighbor is pregnant ... and as I can see ... almost ready to give birth. She enjoys the look of her children as they are decorating the Christmas tree. Than a flash of pain goes over her face. She sits down and her husband looks at her. I can't hear what he's saying, but it seems that he's worried. His wife nods ... they leave the Christmas tree for what it is and ...<br />
Not much later I hear that they are leaving ... she is in labour.<br />
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Several days later as I walk again through my neighborhood. I stop at the same house. I hear the sound of a new born and as I look closer I can see that this family is standing together around the Christmas tree ... singing Christmas songs. On her arms she holds a little boy. As I walk on ... it starts to snow. "This is how it's meant to be", I think.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">really it's Christmas<br />a little child is born -<br />snow is falling </span></b><br />
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I hope you did like this haibun, it's not of this time, but I had to share it with you all. Now it's up to you. Write a haibun about "your neighborhood" and share it with us all. This "Kamishibai" episode is <b>NOW OPEN for your submissions</b> and will be open until February 12th 11.59 AM (CET).<br />
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Good day dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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I am inspired today and have created another challenging special feature. I present to you Carpe Diem's "Use that Quote" in which the goal is to write a haiku, senryu, tanka or kyoka inspired on a given quote. And for today I have chosen a quote by Martin Luther King, the man who was assinated (as JFK was) in 1968. King had a dream ... he dreamed about being the first 'black' president of the US ... as we all know he didn't fullfill that dream, but his dream became true as Obama became president of the US.<br />
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His (King's) one-liner became one of most wellknown one-liners ever. I think you all know already which one-liner I mean. Yes ... that one.<br />
Here it is to inspire you to write a haiku:<br />
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<b><i>'I have a dream' - Martin Luther King</i></b><br />
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Here is my inspired haiku on this quote:<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">walking on pink clouds<br />
dreaming about the first cherry blossom<br />
today I saw the first</span></b><br />
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(C) Chèvrefeuille<br />
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Now it is up to you. Write a haiku inspired on the quote by Martin Luther King. Have fun, be inspired and share your haiku with us.<br />
This episode of "Use That Quote" is <b><i><u><span style="color: #990000;">now open for your submissions</span></u></i></b> and will stay open until January 23th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will (try to) post a new episode later on that day.<br />
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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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Welcome at the first episode of a new special feature on Carpe<br />
Diem Haiku Kai Special. This feature is an awesome one, because in this feature it's all about Haiga.<br />
Haiga is a nice kind of art and poetry it's a photo, painting or other kind of image with a haiku, senryu, tanka or kyoka included. The picture and the poem are making eachother stronger or making eachother clearer.<br />
I have created a few haiga in the past years and I liked doing it ... so I hope you all appreciate this new feature and I will (try to) publish an every week episode of Haiga Festival.<br />
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For this new feature the only task is to share a Haiga with us. Maybe you have a special memory going with it ... or maybe your haiga is just that beautiful to share. This feature will not have a given prompt ... it's just free ... feel free to share your haiga which you like.<br />
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I love to share a haiga which I made not that long ago, and maybe you can remember it, because I shared it on <a href="http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Carpe Diem Haiku Kai</a> and here it is:<br />
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This episode of Haiga Festival will stay open until January 16th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will (try to) post a new episode of this new feature that same date. <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">NOW OPEN for your submissions!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am proud to share my first post on my new Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special weblog. Today the goal is to write a classical haiku following the classical rules of haiku. So your haiku has to follow the next rules:</span><br />
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a moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water; so present tense;<br />
2. 5-7-5 syllables;<br />
3. Use a kigo (or seasonword);<br />
4. Use a kireji (or cuttingword);<br />
5. Sometimes a deeper spiritual or Zen-Buddhistic meaning;<br />
6. First and third line are interchangeable and last but not least<br />
7. No Self, avoid personal or possessive pronouns (I, me, my); it's an
experience not how the poet feels about it.</i><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can
read at point 4, one of the rules is to use kireji (cuttingword). </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kireji (lt.
"cutting word") is the expression for a special category of words
used in certain types of Japanese traditional poetry as is haiku. It's regarded
as a requirement in classical haiku.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In English
there is no exact equivalent of kireji and therefore it's difficult to define
it's function. It is said to supply structural support to the haiku. When
placed at the end of a haiku, it provides a dignified ending, concluding the
haiku with a heightened sense of closure. Used in the middle of the haiku, it
briefly cuts the stream of thought, indicating that the haiku consists of two
thoughts held independent of each other. In such a position, it indicates a pause,
both rhythmically and grammatically, and may tend an emotional flavor to the
phrase preceding it.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most common Kireji used in classical haiku
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">ka :</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> emphasis; when at end of a phrase, it
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poem into two parts, it implies an equation, while inviting the reader to
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>How to use Kireji?</u></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haiku
consist of 17 Japanese syllables or onji, in three metrical phrase of 5, 7 and
5 onji respectively. A kireji is typical positioned at the end of one of these
three phrases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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placed at the end of the final phrase (the end of the haiku), the kireji draws
the reader back to the beginning, initiating a circular pattern. A large number
of haiku, including many of those by Basho (1644-1694, founder of the
"modern" haiku), and with either - keri, an exclamatory auxiliary
verb, ot the exclamatory particle kana , both of which initiate such a circular
pattern.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well ... I hope you liked this very first post on my new weblog "Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special" and I hope that you all will find your way to this new weblog. Have fun, be inspired and share your classical haiku with us all here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special.</span></div>
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Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,<br />
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I love to welcome you at "Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special" a weblog about haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka and all other kinds of Japanese poetry forms.<br />
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This weblog will publish all Special features (except the monthly Specials featuring a haiku-poet) of my other weblog "<a href="http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Carpe Diem Haiku Kai</a>" for example: "Carpe Diem's Tanka Shrine", "Carpe Diem's Make the Haiku Complete" and "Carpe Diem Goes Back to It's Roots". By starting this new weblog I, Chèvrefeuille (a Dutch haiku-poet), hope to get more visitors on my Carpe Diem Haiku Kai weblog, because there I will only post the regular episodes of my daily haiku meme which I started in October 2012.<br />
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At my other weblog we are having this month a journey straight through the Soviet Union on board of the Trans Siberian Railroad with Paulo Coelho's novel "Aleph" as our guide. Until now we have had a wonderful journey with a lot of wonderful haiku, senryu, tanka and kyoka.<br />
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Here at "Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Special" we will have a great time too of course and it is my pleasure to publish my first Special feature here today.<br />
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Feel free to visit my other weblog and feel free to participate there and here in our world of haiku.<br />
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Namaste<br />
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