
Tag: Carpe Diem Haiku Kai


Tanka : Florence Nightingale
life’s a splendid gift
greatest things grow from smallest
discipline shapes lives
distill words into action
live your life while you have it
tanka by M. Nakazato LaFreniere

Troiku : bare branches
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai challenges us to a troiku. A troiku takes each line of a haiku
Senryu : new life
I don’t want a 9-to-5 job. I have many skills but shrink at marketing myself — feels pushy — problematic in freelancing. So I’m trying Zazzle. I design, get 5-15%

Haiku : spring
spring blossom budding
lull afore desert’s dog days
nature ablooming
haiku by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
Spring is a very short season here before the summer heat hits. In a few weeks what passes as winter’s cold leaves us with spring dropping by to say hello before heralding in the blasting furnace winds of our desert summer. I love spring.
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Tanka : cherita
inscrutable word
prompt says write a Cherita
what the heck is that?
sounds like a cigar or drink
poem form evolved from tanka
tanka by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
once upon a time, or so the story goes
Leiana, a royal guard of the deep, doing a usual patrol
saw movement deep within a cave
of course, she had to investigate
a large pile of bones had grown out of the blue
oh dear, myriad baby krakens skittered away from mama’s provisions
cherita terbalik by M. Nakazato LaFreniere

Senryu : following Sinbad, a cracked tale
following Sinbad
he discovered dinosaurs!
duck!!! it thinks we’re snacks
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
The dig in Baghdad went really well until Da was convinced he found Sinbad’s maps. I tried to persuade him that the scholarly papers he could write

Senryu : another cracked tale
once upon a time
a revolution began
“I don’t do windows!”
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere

Senryu : stocking
stockings filled with love
presents opened; ooohs and ahhs
warm hearth, hugs and nog
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
Merry Christmas everybody!
And here is a gift for you. Carpe Diem Haiku Kai put together Christmas Stockings, an ebook of holiday poems using Japanese poetry forms. And guess what! One of my poems is in the book. You can download it for free here — it’s in the right-hand column. What are you waiting for? Go, go, go! (laughing)
For fun, xmas music