CD: Companionship

Carpe Diem ~ Companionship

Photo by Brian Beam

companionship ~
missing the journey
of my haiku friends


***

puppy on my lap
her priceless companionship
brings me such joy

CD: First Pumpkin

Carpe Diem ~ Free Style (no prompt)

Photo by Grace Beam

first pumpkin

placed in home to decorate

halloween fear gone

 

CD: Compassion

Carpe Diem ~ Buddha

buddha
teaches us compassion
from his soul

CD: Ikebana Plum Blossoms

Carpe Diem ~ Rewrite This Haiku

arranging the plum-flowers,
I would enjoy them in the light of the lamp,
as if in the moonlight

(c) Taigi (1709-1771 ?)


My rewrite:

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no moonlight for vase

plum flowers bask beneath lamp

their beauty aglow

 

CD: Tea Time

Carpe Diem ~ Tea

tea time ~

warm hands, sweet aroma

a cup of solace

 

CD: "Life From the Sea"

Carpe Diem ~ Tan Renga

The challenge is to add two lines of seven syllables each onto the following haiku written by Cathy Tenzo.



life from the sea
shipwrecked on the sand
so many shells (CT)

untold history within 
their porcelain-like frailty (MG)




 

CD: Embrace the Good

Carpe Diem ~ Embrace

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embrace haiku

circle of friends follows

family ensues

***

embrace new

disconnect from past

forge ahead

 

CD: Seashell

Carpe Diem ~ Shell

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conch seashell

miracle of nature

creature comfort

CD: Stranded

Carpe Diem ~ Desert Island

stranded on island
soccer ball his only friend
sanity in tact


***

wish for desertion
desert island for a day
oh the peace and calm

 

CD:Toward Extinction

Carpe Diem ~ Ivory

wanton for ivory
elephants endangered
entire species
trophies of the greedy
ruination of life cycle


(Felt I needed to say more than a haiku would allow. A new age tanka...not exactly 5-7-5-7-7.)

CD: When Strangers Meet

Carpe Diem ~ Strangers

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strangers come together

sharing leads to friendships

lives changed forever

CD: Chaos

Carpe Diem ~ Chaos

my country
in complete chaos ~
insanity

***

amnesia breaks
life suddenly in chaos
sorting out the pieces


 

CD: Game of Hearts

Carpe Diem: Little Ones ~ Sedoka

moon circles earth's orb
she eyes him as he nears her
will their stars align for love

moon closest to earth
in frigid months of winter
he melts her heart with his smile

 

Call to Sedona

Carpe Diem ~ Vision Quest

Photo by Grace Beam ~ Tlaquepaque Sculpture

communing with nature

spiritual energies guide me ~

vision quest

***

call of sedona

my guides speak urgently

time for vision quest

CD: Constant Orb

Carpe Diem #313 ~ Circle

constant orb

life within evolves

never ending 

CD: Lotus

Carpe Diem Imagination #7

Buddha Under the Bodhi-Tree

 

in peaceful repose

lotus opens buddha to

enlightenment 

CD: Stonehenge Awe

Carpe Diem # 312 ~ Stonehenge

 

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staring up in awe

overwhelmed by ancient wisdom

mysteries abound

***

the beaker people

once stood where i stand in awe

alien or human

(Archaeological digs found what looked like science beakers in relics around Stonehenge and dubbed that era for "the Beaker People".)

 

CD: Garry Gay's "River Stones"

Carpe Diem Special #60

The goal of this Special is to write a new haiku in the same sense, tone and spirit as this one by featured haiku-poet Gary Gay:

river stones
along her garden path
wet with dew
  

My inspired haiku:

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black oval stones

stacked beneath wisteria

flowers bask in Zen

CD: Eclipse

Carpe Diem #311 ~ Eclipse

light of my life

taking your last gasping breaths

eclipse of my heart

(I know the last line comes from a song, but I wanted to use it for this prompt.)

 

 

CD: Dazzling Dew

Carpe Diem #310 ~ Tsuyujimo (dew frost)

 

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nature decorates

with dazzling crystal sparkles

morning dew frost