Category: Carpe Diem

  • Read more: Twilight Moon

    The theme at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is twilight.  *** Cool, melting sunset evening star; fireflies blinking it’s almost moonlight    

  • Read more: Perpetual Sunshine

    Today’s theme at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is ‘sunflowers.’ Their cheerful faces! Sunflowers can make us smile — even through the rain.    

    Perpetual Sunshine
  • Read more: One Steamy Dip

    Today’s prompt at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is “skinny dipping in the moonlight.” you and me wearing only moonlight’s sweet shimmer rippling the ocean. Our clothes wait patiently in a tangled pile on shore.  

  • Read more: Lesson of the Snail

    Today at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: “… a nice haiku  in honor of Chèvrefeuille’s master, Matsuo Basho. And now it is up to us to add the 2nd stanza of this Tan Renga … have fun!” I bow to my…

  • Read more: The Color of Lonely

    Today at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: I have chosen to challenge you with a haiku by Yosa Buson (1716-1784), one of the “Big Five” haiku poets. As Buson started creating haiku he used his own way of writing, because he…

  • Read more: Soulless

    Today at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: The haiku for today is written by a not so renown haiku poet, Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927).   Wintry gusts: on the sardine still lingers the ocean’s color. © Akutagawa Ryunosuke a.k.a. Gaki (Tr.: Ueda) Yet…

  • Read more: Sunday

    At Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, we have a new episode of our Tan Renga Challenge (TRC) Month May 2019.   sunday morning all the waves in white kneeling on the beach  © Jane Reichhold a baby starfish sits on the…