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Carpe Diem #1751 Lough Derg, Donegal (Ireland) blue haze swirled by spirits voices calling join the walk to peacefulness © petra domina Join Chèvrefeuille and the other poets at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai .  Chèvrefeuille is our host and master guiding us to adventures and learning.  

Carpe Diem #1450 Moonflower (yuugao) moonflower in a rainbow filled world your precious scent ©    petra domina Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI  

Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Month May 12th: "snowdrift" by Ese Today's hokku is written by one of the wonderfully talented of our Kai, Ese. deep in snowdrift I wrap my arms around tree  last dance before spring  © Ese  movement of swaying bodies warmth brings rising sap ©   Janice 'petra domina' Adcock Oooooo, do I remember slow dancing to this beauty! Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on  CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI

Carpe Diem Theme Week #1 episode 7: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Insight 6 balance isn't always necessary Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers, Welcome at the last episode of our first Carpe Diem Theme Week in which we explored The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche. We discovered that life and dead belong to each other and that we can learn from dead how to be in our life. In this last episode we learn that balance isn't always necessary. Introduction This month our regular prompts are all about senses and in one of the first (regular) episodes of this month Hamish asked us to look at " equilibrium / balance " and I think this introduction I already have written, so I will quote myself here: [...] "Balance ... it has not only to do with movement, but I think it also has to do with "inner balance". You have to be "in balance" mentally to stay focused on the things you have to do in your life. in t...

Hi, friends and welcome to the new blog for haiku and other forms of poetry writing.  As I was attempting to come up with a name for this blog my Dad's love of one poem he learned in his youth came to mind.  Daddy would frequently quote these two verses of Longfellow's A Psalm of Life:   Lives of great men all remind us         We can make our lives sublime,     And, departing, leave behind us         Footprints on the sands of time ;      Footprints, that perhaps another,         Sailing o'er life's solemn main,     A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,         Seeing, shall take heart again. Daddy was generous to a fault.  His laugh could fill a room.  Daddy's wit was known by all.  His brute strength gave him forearms like Popeye.  Never a man of wealth by world standards, he, never the less, left footprints on peoples hearts....