airborn
paper wings
spring-time dancing kites
children pull his strings
grandpa
while zephyr warms
April’s babbling brook
children laugh
Kites seen again by Wu Guanzhong
Today Jules is the ghostwriter of Carpe Diem. I have tried a elfje haiku combination of the type Jules show. The kigo of today is air, and I tried to use that as well. Zephyr means a gentle wind blowing from the west.
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April 6, 2014
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Have not heard of an Elfje before and not sure what form it is… no dictionary help here. The Amtrack train on the west coast of the USA is called the Zephyr.
I liked your Elfje Haiku, B!
Elfje is a dutch poem of eleven words in 5 lines.. It’s the first 5 lines..
Okay, I’m back, B. I’m now an Elfje Expert… are you sure you did that one right? The third line has 4 words. Don’t go ‘All Artistic License’ on me
you’re quite right… spring time should be spring-time 🙂
Here it’s ‘springtime’… you just put in a space by mistake, I won’t tell anyone.
I’m sure the old folks are laughing louder than the children as that brook babbles on.
oh I’m sure they do…
It is very windy here in April, maybe I will get a kite this year!
This is a new form, I had never read something like this before. Liked your words. You created a merry scene out of your words in my mind.
Libby explains the Elfje best here:
http://simplyelfje.wordpress.com/
~Jules
Exactly where I found it..
We were introduce to the Elfje form from a wonderful gal on a now defunct writing community about 2 years ago.
Elfje can be fun. Almost as addicting as haiku? 😉
But then through the years we have – um what is the correct descriptive word here… Libby and I have ‘upped the volume’. Since the form was first meant for children…well we’ve helped the form ‘grow up’. Hopefully adding, but not taking away from the forms true sense?
There’s a kite festival in our city every Spring. This reminded me of those days…of innocence, of sunshine, of family…it was wonderful, Björn. It transported me.
Where was the Air word? At least my own verse had something to do with air – even if not planned 🙂
I like what you have done here. Thank you for trying to mix forms.
My husbands’ father used to fly kites at the end of a fishing pole.
Kites and laughter are very nice things to mix.
The air is not there as word but in meaning. Zephyr meaning soft west wind..
I was referring to me not being aware of the Page on CD which had the theme words. Zephyr is a wonderful air word. As for my own piece… song, flight, hearing relate to air.
At least though now I know where to look. 🙂
A lovely poem about things happening in April and Spring.
i love the little hints…i almost used a babbling brook in my poem today…ha…i love the sound of it…cool capture too of the paper bark too….
This is nice!