27 responses to “Carpe Diem Haiku – bamboo”

1. Really beautiful!

   • Thank you 🙂

2. What a tender tale you have spun with your words. I love alabaster skin….bamboo umbrella hides the kiss…..bamboo touch…. Well done Bjorn!

   • Thank you wabi. I loved the picture, so it came easy.

     • Your wood cuts are so beautiful. How and where do you find them?

3. Haunting, subtly sensual and finally enigmatic! A beautiful wave of feeling!

   • Thank you Gemma

4. Excellent Bjorn. Tales of a life of love under bamboo. I especially love the way you end it at the grave.

   • Thank you. Maybe a little bit of a love story…

5. You go full circle, from the birth of love to its death. Touching…

   When the Bamboo Sings

   • Thank you Mark.

6. i love this! beautiful, various tales of romance ^^

   • Thank you kz.. With the picture it was easy.

7. Tender…and I see the circle also…very nice…

   • Thank you Managua

8. This short love story is wonderful, as I read the last haiku of this little story it gave me the shivers … how sad … what a strong woman.

   • I think they had a long and happy life together, and I think he just left a little early.

9. I like how you’ve spoken directly of the woodblock print. It’s a lovely story.

   Lamps on Bamboo Poles

   • Thank you, just like in your haiku, the pictures are important to me.

10. a set of beautifully romantic haiku, and the last, sad and gorgeous visual…I always appreciate your ‘illustration’ choices….

    • Thank you. There is a treasure out there in woodblock and art.

11. the last one! Wow! Well done.

    • Thank you 🙂

12. All the way through life….beautiful. And I do feel…fragility there.

    • But the old bamboo umbrella stays with you 🙂

      • Always! 🙂 The values that don’t change.

13. Lovely romantic set of haiku for ‘bamboo’ ~

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