Carpe Diem haiku – Kikusha-Ni’s “little spring”
Carpe Diem today is to write a haiku inspired by Kikusha-Ni (Tagama Kikusha Zennshu): in the teabowl this motion of the clouds of “little spring” I turned this a little […]
Carpe Diem today is to write a haiku inspired by Kikusha-Ni (Tagama Kikusha Zennshu): in the teabowl this motion of the clouds of “little spring” I turned this a little […]
Today in Carpe Diem the kigo is shincha (or first tea). I got a little inspired and wrote a haibun. It’s also inspired by an article I read recently that […]
Carpe Diem prompt today is koromogae (changing or switching clothes) a classical Kigo. barefoot walk in the summer morn’ sun-warm rock undressing sheltered from the wind & prying eyes —– […]
Carpe Diem prompt is now moving into kigo, and the first one is short night or Mijikayo. We are not quit at midsummer, but being the shortest night Swedes will […]
I have chosen to use dewdrop as the prompt for this week’s Ligo Haibun. Please join in this excellent challenge. I have chosen to make a piece of fiction together […]
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