late night walk (Shasei- troiku)

Tonight I walked home from work after eleven and just soaked up what I saw and stopped a few moments to take photos to capture those moments. I got to the Métro and wrote this troiku immediately before losing that feeling I had just a few moments ago. Of course these are ” Shasei” rather than haiku developped into a troiku.

Walking home
slippery streets mock
autumn leaves
~
walking home
beauty swells in the light
silent night
~
slippery streets mock
I walk gingerly
catch a twilight view
~
autumn leaves mock
cold and wet – yet,
colour my world

Carpe Diem Haiku Writing Techniques #16 (Shiki’s) Shasei

“Though this technique is often given Shiki’s term Shasei (sketch from life) or Shajitsu (reality), it has been in use since the beginning of poetry in the Orient. The poetic principle is “to depict the thing just as it is“…He favored the quiet simplicity of just stating what he saw without anything else happening in the haiku. He found the greatest beauty in the common sight, simply reported exactly as it was seen, and ninety-nine percent of his haiku written in his style. Many people still feel he was right.”

shooting stars (Haiku)

sound of waves roll
lovers point to shooting stars
lying on the beach

CDSpecial

Québec carnival (haiku)

CPHK

http://www.hoteldeglace-canada.com/index.php

snow sculptures
sipping caribou at Hotel de Glace
toast to the New Year

Virtual Tour Hotel de Glace

rayonnant d’amour/beaming with love (tanka)

roar of the midway—
the toddler’s balloon
rises in moonlight
© Michael Dylan Welch

une femme hurle
nuit blanche douloureuse –
cris de joie
maman rayonne d’amour
le nourrisson gazouille

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woman wails
thru a painful sleepless night
cries of joy
mother beams with love
newborn gurgles

CDHK-Special Michael Dylan

Between now and then (haibun)

She walks home late at night, limping slightly. The cold and dampness getting to her joints and that bad knee again comes back to life with a vengeance. The days seem longer now; a week feels like a month. This must be the time she needs to reassess…

between now and then

wrestling with letting go

and living

Haiku Horizons “Between”

Wings of love (Troiku)

The challenge here is to write a troiku using a haiku, Chèvrefeuille has chosen for us written by Basho.

butterflies and birds
restlessly they rise up
a cloud of flowers

butterflies and birds
wrestle cozy idleness – or,
nature’s bounty

restlessly they rise up
unfurled wings rousing wafts,
filled with grace

a cloud of flowers
beckon to be suckled
swell of sweet nectar

Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu – Troiku

Humble offering (haiku)

September 27th Supermoon Lunar Eclipse

(haiku)
exudes perfection
I had nothing to capture
your glowing presence

only deity
manifests divine beauty
of this calibre

forever
etched in my memory,
divine excellence

Full Moon May 14th 2014 was a sight for sore eyes. I tried to take a photo…okay, I took many but nothing, just nothing rendered its beauty.

Update: September 28, 2015 after seeing the super blood moon and lunar eclipse last night, I have to say I was thrilled beyond words…so will use this poem to share my experience last night as well as a photo I took with my I-phone.

Merci Chèvrefeuille (tanka – haiku)

I am trying to keep the mood of our host and mentor for already, almost three years of hosting haiku memes. Rather than translate word for word, I have written both a French and English interpretation of his haiku:

haiku poets
write about transience … a short moment
lasting in time

haiku poets
come together in passing – still,
virtual and real

poètes de haïku
rendez-vous précaire – encore,
virtuel et vrai

And this is my thanks to our mentor, Chèvrefeuille, who shares his passion and thoughtfully teaches us more than words, daily.

haiku lover
shares his passion, teaching
patiently
one moment comes to life
seventeen syllables

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai – Time Machine

I chose this video of More Than Words (one of my most favourite songs) with the original Extreme in front of a live audience. I think this shows our “coming together” at Carpe Diem as a family. Merci Kristjaan pour ton dévouement . Cheryl-Lynn

Autumn walk (30 doh – 023 September haiga)

Finally, she can breathe with the temperatures lowered but not plummeted to shock the body. Walking to work she looks at the fallen leaves forming a lovely carpet and up at the changing colours ever so slowly resisting the transition this year for some reason. Ah, yes, due the unusual warmth, nature is quite confused. Again she approaches her concrete garden that seems to blossom only in the fall. Perhaps it is a gift from the gods hiding underneath sowing the seeds all through summer.