Chevrefeuille Haiku

  • Twilight Moon

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

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  • 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.    

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  • 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.  

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  • 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

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  • 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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