Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

  • 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 his soulless eyes see through me — he knows my secrets. © The Abject Muse

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  • 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 tip of my ring finger  © The Abject Muse    

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  • Hollow Substance

    Written for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai cherished memories of better times and best friends all lost to me now. Reality or a mind’s eye tweak — does it matter?        

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  • For this Renga With Jane Reichhold, Chèvrefeuille has chosen six (6) haiku from her online Saijiki “A Dictionary of Haiku”. Here are the haiku to work with: beach diamonds a new day crystallized in sunny surf foam colony of seagulls scrapping over yesterday’s French fries.   white pussy willows above a muddy swollen river fat

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  • Buddha Magic

    Today at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, our challenge is to create a Tan Renga from the Haiku below by Jane Reichhold. changing forms all around the Buddha clouds in a blue sky   © Jane Reichhold shapeshifting magical breezes the Buddha is breathing    

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