30 Sunday Jun 2013
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Haiku Heights prompt. Firefly.
Firefly
velvety dark night
meadow agog and aglow
dancing fireflies
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28 Friday Jun 2013
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Carpe Diem Tan Renga is to complete the following haiku by the wonderful Bjorn Brudberg with your own two lines of 7-7 syllables each. I’m trying my hands again and I hope it works out. 🙂
Bjorn’s
after fireworks
the silence is clearer
darkness is deeper
time to hit the feather beds
lure of soft whispering winds
Tan Renga
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28 Friday Jun 2013
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Carpe Diem Special Prompt: Kikusha-Ni’s ‘The Dusk In Rain’
my body all alone
in this autumn I feel –
the dusk in rain by Kikusha-Ni
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28 Friday Jun 2013
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Haiku for Recuerda Mi Corazon.
Summer Sparks
two birds meet
mahogany sways
summer sparks
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27 Thursday Jun 2013
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Carpe Diem prompt: Cicada
Cicada
twilight of summer
shrill melody fills garden
cicadas in love
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25 Tuesday Jun 2013
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Haiku Heights prompt. Crescendo.
Crescendo
high body fever rising to a crescendo ah, summer love song Crescendo song of the siren rising to a crescendo summer night fever Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 26/06/13I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
25 Tuesday Jun 2013
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Today’s prompt onCarpe Diem is based on one of the most famous festivals in Japan, the Gione (Gion Festival). However, I have taken artistic license to write a haiku based on the Odwira festival celebrated by the people of Akuapem in the Eastern region of Ghana. Please enjoy 🙂
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Festival
in tune with the drums
they take elegant steps
festival spirits
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24 Monday Jun 2013
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Last week, I got an honourable mention from Ligo Haibun for consistently writing good haibuns (two apart from this) 🙂 I say a big thanks to the judges for thinking my offerings worthy. This week’s challenge, a special one coincides with the Ligo festival in Latvia.
Going Home
‘Don’t play the drums of another land before you play our own’
My grandmother’s words came into my mind, unbidden, playing on and on like a broken record. What did I come here seeking? The vast stretch and lush carpet of greens gave me the answer. The trees whistled in wild abandon in response to the sudden gust of wind. I whistled back, happy, remembering home. Everything fell in place.
You see, in my land, men do not run around naked. That was the height of madness and it meant that you had been bewitched. But seeing those handsome virile men the day before at the fair as they strutted in their glory, I had felt some deep primitive stirring within me. Was that the secret behind this display? This feeling of oneness with nature that somehow made it all right?
Hmm! I wish I could have worn the crowns of wreath like the women I saw. They looked pretty, the luscious leaves creating a pretty contrast with their brightly hued dresses. Ha! Back home, we only wore leaves round our neck when we mourned royalty.
It’s time I went back home.
24 Monday Jun 2013
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Fireworks Prompt on Carpe Diem
Fireworks
night party
Aurora is on the hunt
shooting stars
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21 Friday Jun 2013
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On Carpe Diem Tan Renga is to complete the following haiku by Buson with your own two lines of 7-7 syllables each. My first attempt at Tan renga so do treat me ‘gently’ 🙂
Buson’s haiku
the rainy season
a paper lantern in hand
I walk along the verandah
dispel the dancing shadows
as branches sway in the wind
Tan Renga
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