Sweet and Bitter Stuff of Wonder
Brought to you by Mary K
For this Tan Renga Challenge, we had to take an original piece by Santoka Taneda (Tr. John Stevens) and add a second 14-syllable stanza to it.
Here is the final piece:
Autumn heat –
my begging bowl
is full of rice.
The breeze is rich with joy from
summer memories and thoughts.
The prompt was given by Kristjaan at his blog for haiku and Japanese poetry.
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a flower at night
drops its head in reverie
of warm mother earth
(c) 2018, MK
My humble haiku was written as a response to this week’s Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #14 – Revise that Haiku. Here is the original piece I considered while writing my own. And on Chevrefeuille’s prompt blog site you can read the background story in detail:
falling to the ground
a flower closer to the root
bidding farewell
© Matsuo Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold)
Hey, I’ve never known creating Tan Renga was such fun. You learn as you live, quite clearly. My friend, Chevrefeuille, regularly posts challenges and prompts at his awesome blog site, and today, I finally paid attention to this new thing for me. If you need explanation and guidance, you’d better visit his post. And here are my two contributions:
white poppy
it must have bloomed
from a wintry shower
in a hurry before springtime
has donned it with scarlet.
(c) 2017, Basho and MK
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ancient warriors ghosts
mists over the foreign highlands –
waiting for the full moon
the field will find its
forgotten army of tall grass.
(c) 2017, Chevrefeuille and MK
No Time To Waste
A drop with a thousand
colours of light –
Frozen in the winter world.
(c) 2017, Mariya Koleva
I have long been absent from my friend’s haiku prompt blog, Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, but today’s haiku was written for his prompt #1332 No Time To Waste, taking inspiration from one thousand spectacular nuances of the water drop magnificence. Smiles.
My friend, Kristjaan, hosting the wonderful blog of Carpe Diem Haiku, is never tired. He offers daily, weekly and seasonal prompts. He holds contests, features many translated haiku and great pics. His blog is a great resource of information and support. Although this is not a classical haiku, because it has “my tears” in it, I wrote it after his Little Creatures prompt. Visit his haiku meme blog here. You may decide to join. Who knows what might come.
Carpe Diem, Little Things #19 – Violet
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My tears will remain
in place to breathe the beauty
of a violet bloom.
© MK 2015
Here are some haiku written for several of the Carpe Diem daily prompts. It has been exactly a year since the blog was started by my haiku friend, Kristjaan and it has been a year during which my life changed a lot. I graduated, defended my thesis, lost my work, found a new one and… Well, you know what I mean.
#308 – Salmon
Silver glitter fast
Beyond the rainbow river
Sweet feast hugging home.
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#309 – Bananaplant
In yellow softness
Rampant mild and honey-like –
Dreaming memory.
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#310 – Dew Frost
Tears fall early
All night weeping listlessly.
Tears into growth.
©2013 Mariya Koleva
**Carpe Diem #306 – Chrysanthemum Festival**
Disheveled head up
Winking in autumn humour
Eyes and hearts at feast.
**Carpe Diem #307 – Goose**
Flocks straying away
To the far wilderness
Waving high goodbye.
©2013 Mariya Koleva
Once again, it’s fall. It’s a bit annoying I do my best and most vigorous poeming in autumn, yet, that is the situation.
Carpe Diem #304 – Willow Leaves Fall
Branches weeping low
River flows remorselessly
Farewell to colour.
© 2013 Mariya Koleva
There are process notes with this one.
– While on lunch break, I couldn’t come up with a haiku. The first poem is the one I wrote. Later, when I came home and sat down to post, I decided to edit my original poem a bit, but hated to lose any of the images I had, so I turned it into two haiku. Maybe not the best result, but I believe it is good enough.
Carpe Diem #301 – Harvest Moon
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Blowing the winds of reality
autumn reminds of itself –
paradise of yellowness.
Come closer and feed your vision.
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Blowing the winds of
reality, autumn is
so full of itself.
Paradise of moon,
yellowness will come closer
Feeding your vision
© 2013 Mariya Koleva
