Carpe Diem – Chōyō (Chrysanthemum Festival)
The Ninth Month, Chôyô by Keisai Eisen The double ninth festival or chrysanthemum festival on the significant ninth day of the ninth month all throughout Asia. Nine has a lot […]
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I heard in birdsong …. Pantoum for dVerse
I heard in birdsong from the trees Sweet singers are invisible they sang temptations to be free How could they? it’s unfeasible Sweet singers are invisible They tempt us to […]
Carpe Diem Haiku – Warazuka (Straw bundles)
in late autumn farmer binds his hope to wheat bundles when field mouses have dinner in the sheaf farmer hunger — September 23, 2013
Carpe Diem Haiku – Yanagi Chiru (Willow leaves fall)
silent rain like falling willow leaves – a geisha’s tears Linked to Carpe Diem — September 22, 2013
Carpe Diem Haiku (2) – Tonbo (Dragonfly)
illusions – like dewdrops captured on wings of dragonfly I enter this one separately at Carpe Diem instead of as a comment. Based on a comment from Victoria, where she […]
