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Tag: Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

  • Twilight Moon

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

  • Perpetual Sunshine

    Perpetual Sunshine

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

  • 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.  

  • 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 master Matsuo Basho told me the way to watch a snail  © Chèvrefeuille experience a…

  • 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 wasn’t a “fan” of Matsuo Basho (whom is seen as the “father of haiku”), but…