Carpe Diem Utabukuro #5 Origami frog

"The goal of CD's Utabukuro is not difficult, because I just ask you to share a haiku or tanka which you admire. That haiku or tanka can be one of a classical or non-classical haiku poet or one by yourself. You can choose what ever you like, but it has to be a haiku or tanka. Maybe the haiku brings you sweet (or sad) memories or you just like it. Explain why you have chosen that haiku or tanka to share here "in" CDHK's Utabukuro, poem bag, and ... that is the second task for this feature, write/compose an all new haiku inspired on the one you have chosen."

I chose one that I wrote earlier this spring.

in the green meadow

amid the buds and insects

lurking orb weaver

This one has phrase and fragment structure, first-third line interchangeability and a deeper, though rather dark, meaning.  Not sure of there is an official kigo here, but the image to me is very Spring-like.  I can't stand spiders in the real world, but have great affection for them in my haiku.

inspired haiku

in the green meadow

a fat toad sits pondering

the taste of spider

My affection for amphibians is boundless.   On its own, this one seems quite classical to me.  In the context of its inspiration, though, there is more than a hint of irony.  Maybe that makes it a senryu.   I can live with that.

What has any of this to do with an origami frog?  To answer that, see the link in the first line above.

green origami

only a paper frog

cob needn't worry

UPDATE:    Just found this wonderful example by Mystic

in a sea of weeds

a lone sunflower fishes

for its lost shadow

My response

for one dark moment

where have all the shadows gone

a cloud passes by

Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #52 full circle challenge "heaven"

Tokubetsudesu #52 

I will give you twelve (12) words (for every ''hour'') one word. The goal is to write haiku using the words as given in the clock wise way.

1. Heaven

2. Clouds

3. Palm tree

4. Fountain

5. Goddess

6. Desert

7. Jazz cafe

8. Duke Ellington

9. Summer night

10. Honeysuckle

11. Ancient road

12. Hill

If you follow the words clock wise than you can compose four new haiku. This new feature is just for fun and I hope you will as much enjoy it as I did have fun and joy to create it.

musical heaven

syncopated clouds dance with

the swaying palm tree

in the fountain mist

the image of a goddess

one desert mirage

heaven’s jazz cafe

count basie duke ellington

swing the summer night

honeysuckle rose

song played on the ancient road

just beyond the hill

Carpe Diem #771 natsu no nami (summer waves)

A mysterious prompt.

Are the waves of summer different from other seasons? Maybe ... 

mysterious waves

rippling upon the surface

what lies underneath

~~::~~

hiding under waves

silver scales in the ripples

catching water bugs

Carpe Diem Special #155 Adjei's second haiku "summer sun"

"Our featured haiku poet lives in Ghana, his name is Adjei Agyei Baah. 

"The goal is to write/compose all new haiku in the same sense, tone and spirit as the ones I have given. You may use them all, but that isn't an obligation, you can also take one or two haiku for your inspiration."

folding

and unfolding

the silent clap of a butterfly

(c) Adjei

~~::~~

in air-born eddies

clapping of butterfly wings

the winds of change

(c) JzB

Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #51 classical way of writing haiku

Greetings friends and fellow haijin.

Once again, after a hiatus I return to Cape Diem.   July is a vey busy month for me, but today a have a few spare moments.

Most of June was lost.  on the 2nd, my mother suffered a stroke.  She went down hill rapidly, and her funeral was three weeks later.  She was 94, so I think her age stacked the deck against her.  The picture shows her [standing] and her twin sister on their 94th birthday in May

my mom and her twin

never quite identical

now there is but one

~::~

Now, back to the present.  The challenge of this episode is to write a classical haiku inspired by this photo.

within those pages

from masters to their minions

what am i to learn

~::~