Summer jog (haibun) CPHK # 523, Basho (5) “How Rare”

CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI, Haibun, haiga 2 Minutes

I rarely have the opportunity or privilege (I should really say) of dining with a colleague from work.  Since we work on a 24 hour crisis line, our breaks are never together.  Yesterday by chance, it was.  I introduced my friend to my favourite vegan restaurant, The Green Panther. I have written about this place before and even taken photos with my notebook next to my plate of yummy falafel.

My friend was telling me about how she had gone out for a run the other day and came back with bites on her legs and it swelled tremendously within a short time.  The next day when the swelling went down, she noticed 4 little stingers all in a row by a very hungry wasp.

After reading Chevrefeuille ‘s lovely introduction to Carpe Diem’s prompt today #523 Basho (5), ”How Rare!”, I thought of my friend’s running incident.

I also enjoyed the background of Kristjaan’s blog name.  Honeysuckle was his seasonword chosen in his very first verse 25 years ago.  Translated into French that would be Chevrefeuille and the rest is history.

That inspired me to choose a title for my Blogspot blog. I had originally chosen le jardin de Cher and then I thought about flowers that I love. Daisies are my favourite because they are also easy to purchase any time of year. But I have always loved sunflowers. I remember the giant sunflowers that grew next to our garden shed at our family home when my children were little. Golly!! They were ginormous! And so with jardin still as the theme of my “short form poetry” blog, I chose Tournesol dans un jardin…so Tournesol will be my nom de plume on that blog.  Merci, Kristjaan, for the inspiration!

{Basho was host of a renga party at the home of Nagayama Shigeyuki, a military man of the Shonai Clan. This was the greeting verse and it was used as ‘hokku’ for the renga.     He had visited Mount Hagura for seven days and was glad that he could finally eat fresh vegetables. It was published in his ‘Narrow Road to the Deep North’, his most well known haibun. © Chevrefeuille}

mezurashi ya   yama wo ide ha no   natsu nasubi

how rare!
on leaving the mountain
the first eggplant

and Chevrefeuille’s offering:

the sweet perfume
of the Honeysuckle
makes me drowsy

Now for my humble haiku with the image of my friend in mind travelling running.

Parc la Fontaine
Parc la Fontaine

Summer Jog

cool spray mist

dreamlike beachy feel

city park

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smell of fresh-cut grass

running through parc la Fontaine

a wasp stings

© Chery-Lynn ’14/07/24
Submitted for: Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, # 523 Basho (5) “How Rare”

 

 

 

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A little bit about moi: I am a mom, a nana, a sister, a woman, a friend, a human being…a youth counsellor, Family Life Educator. I have been working in the helping profession for over 25 years and volunteered in various capacities from youths to seniors. Tournesol is my nom de plume for haiku and other Japanese form poetry here at Tournesoldansunjardin https://cheryllynnroberts.wordpress.com I hope you enjoy reading through my daily waka. I also have another blog "Stop the Stigma" where I may stand on my soapbox now and then and hope it will become a place to drop in and share or comment on issues important to you. In that vein this could be a great way to learn from each other. http://stigmahursteveryone.wordpress.com

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32 thoughts on “Summer jog (haibun) CPHK # 523, Basho (5) “How Rare””

      2. I never find time…have been working long shifts…found one but still not competitive in prices. But I’m saving money having canceled 3 services and I’m catching up on my reading.

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      3. A major change in your life I suspect since you are normally blogging so much. I think it would be good for all of us to be electronic free from time to time (I know you aren’t going THAT far!)

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      4. I miss posting my poems and reading more haiku to learn but there in word document and in my notebook so I’m fine. It is a time of year I don’t have much free time with 9 to 10 hour shifts and summer outings.

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      5. I will look forward to seeing them all when they are finally posted!

        Chaitanya, Akshay and Sreejit are all now back in India. Amazingly, Chaitanya and Akshay’s plane was 3/4 empty so they could lie down for the first 14 hours of the trip! That never happens when I go in December.

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      7. I’m so glad you met her too.

        I just put up the post about my trip to the Tetons. It ended up being my 100th post! 🙂

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    1. Thank you!! Thanks to Kristjaan for that inspiration…but I am not too savvy with BlogSpot…how to I follow folks…sheeesh…more to learn for an old woman like me {chuckles}

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      1. Usually with Blogger there’s a place to receive updates by email — but it depends on the individual blog author. It can be rough to follow the Blogger blogs if you’re a WP user – and vice versa! Someone told me about Bloglovin’ — you could try that. http://www.bloglovin.com/what-is-bloglovin

        Not sure what I would do for a nom de plume — I like how several of the Japanese “masters” either received their names from others or bestowed names upon their pupils. Was thinking about “Phoenix” but that’s not really “haiku-y” is it? 😉

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    1. Haha.I do not deserve honor for the photo… I Diddy not take thus but I wanted to show readers thus lovely park.it’s where our service had our annual walk to raise money on May. I have a great weekend planned too..celebrating my grandsons 10 th bd and Sat busting my best friend… I must take a panoramic photo of her placefacing 7 mountains.

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      1. OH yes do and share! Have a lovely weekend! Yay for fun weekends! Hugs to you sweet one! gosh the weeks are flying by! Thank goodness for warmer weather! ;D

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  5. Awesome post Cheryl Lynn a nice little story and the haiku coming from that story. Nicely done. And I like your nom de plume it’s a classical and remember the most haiku-poets wrote their haiku under a nom de plume or pseudonym … just as I do …

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    1. Isn`t that interesting that my other blog, the nom de plume, I had made up a name with letters simply representing something personal and it ended up being the name of a flower in another language. How totally odd! It is that site that inspired most to write poetry too.

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  6. This was a fun post. I know some folks can be extremely sensitive to even the smallest bug bite.
    I was helping a friend while visiting in Florida a few years back and got bit by a ‘No-see-um’ – it might have a more technical name. But they bite and vanish and apparently can bite several times unlike some insects will die after one bite.

    I too had fun choosing my nom-de-plume I use it for all of my sites. But it kind of got shortened by my friends. And that is OK. I stared with JulesPaige because I like to write and words are like ‘jewels’ on a ‘page’. 🙂

    Sometimes the ‘write’ words come out very ‘right’ – thank you for your visit and kind words.
    ~Jules

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  9. I just now saw this really great post as that was the fatal week my computer went blank! That was one mean wasp … your poor friend. I only just now saw that you have a Blogger Blog and how you chose your nom de plume … so I went over to find it … I had seen your comments on my Waka Library and knew it was you, but hadn’t made the connection with this new blog. Fantastic by the way. Hugs 🙂

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    1. Thank you, Georgia. I find so many haiku writers are on blogger and it is so much simpler to comment this way. And I am slowly weaning off one blog that has everything to add short form poetry…may not be only Japanese form for short. I still have so much to learn to set up this blog though (sigh) and not much time. The town next to us, by the way, their mayor died last month from 9 or 10 wasp bites…so sad and scary too.

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      1. I haven’t decided either exactly how I’m going to use the Waka Library, so far only for the Haiku, but eventually I think I’ld like to write all my Japanese poems there. As you said, though, it takes forever to learn a new system ….

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      2. When you create within the same name even if it is 2 or 3 blogs, it is much easier to maintain. Like Stigma and Cher Shares are together so I can follow comments, etc., for blogger is the same thing, so consider keeping under the same name if you want to create another one with stories for instance.

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