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Tag: 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…

  • 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    

  • 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?        

  • Beach Diamonds to Art Deco

    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…

  • 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