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Carpe Diem Theme Week #2 Color Your Life: Yellow Monday's color prompt was yellow.  As we were preparing to leave for Europe for an almost 4 week trip, my muse could not get my attention for yellow.  This morning we awoke to the tragedy in Belgium.  A memory came to my mind that some folks were called yellow cowards at time for not being willing to take chances.  To not be willing to fight in the open.  I think the term yellow coward might well apply to the bombers.  While they are 'fighting' for their cause of world domination, they are ruthless, heartless, yellow cowards.  Hiding behind a cover of service to a cause as a way to injure innocents. This will be my last post for a while due to the trip.  I love and will miss my haiku family.  Will be checking and commenting when possible.  So sorry I could not arrange to meet our host as we will be in Amsterdam for 4 days.  Our travel will be on a Viking River Longboat....

Carpe Diem Special #203 Basho's disciples: Mukai Kyorai's "Master of Persimmons" My mother in law was a woman who respected nature.  She would never waste anything.  The bag holding cereal inside the box would be saved once emptied.  It would reappear wrapped around leftovers before placing in the freezer.  The MIL, also, loved gardening and yard work.  She tilled her garden by herself till around 90 years of age.  She canned her own grape juice from her own vines.  Even made wine a time or two.  She would pick berries and fruit either wild or cultivated.  She was a wise custodian of this good earth. persimmon cookies saved for a winter's night treat wrapped in waxed love ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Theme Week #2 Color Your Life -- Orange Orange:   Orange is a very strong color associated with creative energy. Nature grows through the sun (orange?) and therefore I think we will all have a slight reference towards orange as being the color of creativity. We have to cherish that energy, because we need it to create our haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry forms. Orange combines red and yellow. It contains the fiery energy of red with the wisdom and control of yellow. Orange is a dynamic energy like red but more thoughtful and controlled. Orange brings about:  creativity; playfulness; exploration on a practical level; relief from boredom and equilibrium. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  longhorn prepares for battle clothed in orange ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock   Hook 'Em Horns the battle cry echoes in tradition ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuil...

Carpe Diem #944 willow The challenge is to use a writing technique, 'response to another's poem'.  The first poem that popped into my mind was 'The Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe.  To read the original poem, click here .  love fires consumed in feathered darkness burns forevermore ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

 Carpe Diem Theme Week #2 Color Your Life Introduction Our Host's opening statements. Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, Welcome at the first episode of the second Carpe Diem Theme Week. This week (March 20th until March 26th) I love to bring some "Color into Your Life". We are going to explore the deeper meaning of the colors which we know from the rainbow. As I started CDHK back in 2012 I had a week full of prompts about the colors of the rainbow and maybe ... this feels for a few of you ... like a reprise, but ... well our Haiku loving family has grown since we started so there will be new family members who love to be inspired by the colors of the rainbow. As I did in our first Theme Week I will gather all the posts of this Theme Week including your haiku and other Japanese poetry forms you will submit to create a new e-book, but that's ... not for now. Color Your Life ... Red: Generally the positive sides of the color red include ...

Carpe Diem #941 Heart The blue-eyed, blond haired boy stole my heart when he was just a kicking fetus.  The love continued to grow as we watched him coo, then talk his special talk.  Grandaddy, (Nandad) always let him play with the tool box.  Screwdrivers were i-dikers.  Caboose was bagoose. The Playskool Tyke Bike was and is nooden-nooden.  When looking for someone, he would say their name in a sing song, quizzical fashion while shaking his head in a negative fashion.  He now uses words he learned during his college and grad school years two decades ago.  These words are not nearly as fun as those precious made up toddler words. thunderclap acts as a bossy stormhorn rainbrella time! ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #940 blossom bros of a feather stalk a nearby bather flock of crows ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock The goal today was to create a unique type of rhyming poem named "kasuri" or "frame rhyme", Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Special #202 Basho's Disciples: Shiba Sonome's "nobody sees" how hot it is!  scarce can I bear the child upon my back that plays with my hair © Shiba Sonome (Tr. Chèvrefeuille) Shiba Sonome -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  Lake Michigan, July 2015,  ©   Janice Adcock sunrise adorns the lakeshore and waves yellow diamonds ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #73 pi-ku another nice poetry form (reprise) I cannot begin to explain today's prompt so here it is as copied from Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, Welcome at a new episode of our weekly feature Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu. This week I love to challenge you to write a so called  "pi-ku"  as a kind of tribute to "Pi-day" which was on March 14. Why is this day called "Pi-day"? Because of the numbers of this date 3.14, which is the value of "Pi". I remember that we have done this earlier in one of our episodes of "Carpe Diem Little Ones" that special feature about other little poetry  forms like haiku. I will give you an example of a pi-ku. the sun rises the heat already tangible © Chèvrefeuille I sought the Internet for all the digits of Pi and I found the next (short) value:  3,14159  26535 89793 23846 ... and the digits go on and on, everlasting ... Let us t...

Carpe Diem #938 Iris leaves The haiku writing technique of today is called "pseudo science". iris leaves I tie them to my feet as sandal cords © Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  in a minute the rain stopped tomorrow ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #939 Old Pond old pond a frog jumps into the sound of water © Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold) In this haiku Basho uses the " sense switching" technique, a technique which we have seen in our second series of haiku writing techniques last year. pine and cedar to admire the wind smell the sound © Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  --  -- unheard baby cries quelled amniotic fluid in warmth of womb baby swims mom smiles as movement felt ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #937 Robe put it on to try in-vest yourself in a flowered robe © Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold) And this is what she tells about the background of this haiku: The "jiube ga haori" is a padded vest. The "hana goromo" is a flowered robe worn for viewing blossoms. "Haori" sounds similar to "gaori" , which means "to surrender to the beauty of flowers", and "kite" can mean both "come" or "wear". In this haiku Basho uses the haiku writing technique "pun" it's a kind of technique to bring a kind of joke into the haiku. I will explain this a little later in this episode. First I love to look at a few other haiku in which this "pun" is used.     - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Puns are things I do in the spur of the moment.  To attempt to do a pun on command is like being told you have to love someone .. robed in...

Carpe Diem #936 Forest Paradox ... In haiku black forest whatever you may say a morning of snow © Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold) waiting room a patch of sunlight wears out the chairs © Jane Reichhold free falling rain gathers on the fence holding tight ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #935 Cicada falling raindrops slapping at the dry ground muddy water streams ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Special #201 Basho's disciples: Morikawa Kyoroku's "morning glories" with the pink dawn unfurling morning glories welcome the day ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #72 Use that quote Here is the quote by the 14th Dalai Lama for your inspiration: [...] "The purpose of our lives is to be happy". [...]  Dalai Lama the dirt was dug rocks arranged for tiny feet grandma's backyard fossils, rocks and goldfish pond the best kind of happy freckles blue eyes smiling say in love your yard is cute melting heart in grandma's chest as they go search for fireflys ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #934 Onions awash in sunlight fields flush with bluebonnets a bee sips nectar ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #933 Rain rain falling in a spring storm diagonally ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #932 silk tree moonlight firefly's flight a summer night ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock a flowery kite with the tail flowing bright above silk tree height ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem #931 Bridge evening breeze carrying the feel of spring rippling laughter ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI