the wheel

Welcome at a new episode of our wonderful Haiku Kai  this month it is all about Tibet, a Magical Experience, we have seen already the beauty of Tibet and we have read wonderful poems written by the renown Tibetan poet and yogi Milarepa and today we are going to look a little bit closer to …

Daff(t) Haiku

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers ... Kim is prompting at Carpe Diem and you will also find a fabulous essay there by her on Haiku and Tanka. "I would like the theme to be 'the poet's craft', in which Carpe Diem's poets express what they think it is, reflecting on their own experiences as haiku …

wistful mist

Haibun Monday at dVerse and Toni Spencer has a prompt for us. The image is mine. Today I would like you all to write a haibun, true, and only one or two tight paragraphs ending with a classic haiku and to link it up and read other poets and comment. Indeed, many times, the comments …

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #14 storm

Our prompt today from Chèvrefeuille is the word Storm and the invitation to write in one of the 5 Tanka styles illustrated so far this month through the study of Teika's writing techniques. So storm it is then and perhaps you can guess the style I have chosen? ***   ***   *** silently i sit no …

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #13 Teika's Fifth Tanka Writing Technique "Lofty Style" (full moon) One of the traditional examples of this style is the poem by Fujiwara Yoshitsune (1169-1206) composed on the given theme of "the moon at dawn" in the Shinkokinshū #16:1545: ana no to o / oshiakegata no / kumonma yori / kamiyo …

Carpe Diem Haiku

Carpe Diem Goes Back to Its Roots #4 Carpe Diem Haiku Kai host Chèvrefeuille from time to time invites us to return to where it all began – the roots of haiku, remembering the classical rules: 1. Describe a moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water; so present tense; 2. 5-7-5 syllables; …