Carpe Diem #1696 Beach Love

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Welcome at a new episode in our wonderful Haiku Kai ... Summer Love. All the themes have to do with summer and the best part of summer ... love. Today I have chosen a nice theme I think. Today I love to challenge you to create Tanka (only tanka) on Beach Love ... As you all know the summer beach is one of the places were coupl es find each other in love. Not only just love but also sex. So this is a challenge. Create a Tanka themed "Beach Love", and try to bring in that sexuality, sensuality or erotic feeling.

You know I am not a good Tanka poet, but I had to try ... to create a Tanka with our theme for today.

lying on the beach
I hear the whispering surf
while I dream of her
memories of steaming love
with sand on our buttocks

© Chèvrefeuille

Beach Love by Galo

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until July 11th at noon (CEST). I will try to publish our new weekend meditation later on. For now ... enjoy your Beach Love.

Carpe Diem's Romancing Haiku #1 beach

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

What a nice weekend this will become I think. I was inspired and I have a new feature for you to work with. Again a feature for only haiku, as are the roots van CDHK. You all know that tanka is THE Japanese poetry form for love. Tanka we know mostly as a love poem, but I think (and I have said this often here at CDHK) that haiku can also be a love poem that's why I have created this new feature "Romancing Haiku".

For this first episode of Carpe Diem's Romancing Haiku I have chosen a theme. I think that the beach is one of the best places to find romance. And I even have written a few haiku themed beach in which I think romance was the second theme.

torn apart clothes
thrown against a beach pole
a winter's love

bare footed

wandering about the nude beach

in heart of winter

Beach Love

the sound of waves

accompanies hot steamy love -

seagulls cry

a whisper of rain

awakens me gently

morning on the beach

© Chèvrefeuille

I think really that haiku can be a love poem too. So that's were this new feature is about ... romancing haiku ...

I hope I have inspired you to create romancing haiku ... so let's go create ....

This first episode of "romancing haiku" is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until April 21st at noon (CEST). I will try to publish this new feature weekly.

Carpe Diem's Kamishibai #3

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It's a little while ago that I introduced to you our Carpe Diem's Kamishibai, or in other words, Carpe Diem's Storyteller, because that's what Kamishibai do. As you can see in this logo of this feature it's someone who tells stories and uses picture to tell the stories. So that's what the goal is of this Carpe Diem's Kamishibai to write a haibun inspired on a given photo or as in this episode a haiku by Jane Reichhold and a photo:


smooth sand
chasing children down the beach
their foot prints

(c) Jane Reichhold

Credits: footprints on the beach

This episode I love to challenge you all to write a haibun inspired on the haiku by Jane and/or the photo of the footprints with a maximum of 200 words including the haiku which belongs to the haibun.

I think you all can do this, but it's not an easy challenge I think, but ... well make it happen and have fun with writing. Just enjoy the challenge, feel free ...

This Kamishibai-episode will stay on 'til August 15th 11.59 AM (CET). Have fun, be inspired and share your haibun with Carpe Diem.

Carpe Diem #51, beach

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Yesterday we had our 50th (except the Specials) prompt. I have read wonderful haiku inspired on 'Circle of Life'. Today our new prompt is more of Summer, but ... well I love to make a walk along the seashore, the beach, notwithstanding the season. As today we are gonna walk along the beach, because beach is our prompt for today.

Credits: Autumn Beach

walking along the sea
with the one I love dearly -
Autumn's beach

Autumn's beach
I feel lonely, no sunbathing people,
just the ground swell

Isn't it a wonderful experience? Walking with the one you love over a lonesome Autumn Beach.

This prompt will stay on 'till November 23th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our new prompt, our new Carpe Diem Special later on today around 10.00 PM (CET).

The new Special (number 8) is the following haiku by Issa:

spring peace -
a mountain monk peeks
through the hedge